Almost in Parallel II

Michalis Manousakis | Agelos Antonopoulos

16/4/22 – 16/06/22 Trikala ART DIRECTOR Maria Almpani TEXTS BY Niovi Kritikou TRANSLATION Niovi Kritikou PARTICIPANTS Michalis Manousakis, Agelos Antonopoulos

Michalis Manousakis,
Portrait 1,
Acrylics and mixed media on wood,
40 x 30 cm,
Athens, 2019-2022

ALMA Gallery happily presents for a seconf time an exhibition of the two eminent and active professors of Athens School. Michalis Manousakis and Angelos Antonopoulos surprise us with a memorial, anachronistic exhibition.

ALMOST IN PARALLEL II - the continuation of their common path eleven years later, from students to teachers until now.

Michalis Manousakis,
Portrait 2,
Acrylics and mixed media on wood,
40 x 30 cm,
Athens, 2019-2022

Traveling to a fantasy timeless place full of references, we found ourselves in between, Rene Magritte’s surrealism, the linear abstraction of 20th century painting and minimalism. Michalis Manousakis, with the heritage of the post-avant-garde, transports us to a modern Greek narrative.

Michalis Manousakis,
Portrait 3,
Acrylics and mixed media on wood,
40 x 30 cm,
Athens, 2019-2022

With the conceptual depiction of a burned sunset, his half-illuminated timeless landscapes, become a magical twilight, that a man, helpless in the vortex of the full moon, submits to his primordial nature.

Michalis Manousakis,
40 x 40 cm,
Athens, 2022

Something from the exit of Adam and Eve in the garden of Paradise, as captured by the proto-renaissance of Masaccio and the aesthetics of a peeking look through a keyhole or an imaginary camera Obscura, takes us to a voyeuristic wooden dream-sphere.

Michalis Manousakis,
40 x 40 cm,
Athens, 2022

Michalis Manousakis is an erotic storyteller with timeless qualities, while almost in parallel Angelos Antonopoulos is an alien radiologist of the biology of the soul and mind.

Agelos Antonopoulos,
Portrait 1,
Mixed media,
40 x 40 x 5 cm,
Athens, 2019 - 2021

Influenced by New-dadaism and a slightly something from Duchamp’s big glass, A. Antonopoulos creates an eternal portrait of self-identification. An asexual self but omnipresent. A heartbroken soul, full of dust and that life is reborn, like a bug or a parasite through the ashes of another life. In an environment reminiscent of a museum of biological history, he creates fast science fiction narratives, comprising the history of the world and talks about what is to come. Ideas for the future. A memorial of joy and evolution of the posthumous activity of the soul, which leaves everyday life and seeks the Ideal Truth. That Idea of the only absolute truth that Platoon contemplated.

Agelos Antonopoulos,
Portrait 2,
Mixed media,
40 x 40 x 5 cm,
Athens, 2019 - 2021

When within a decade their paths proceed in parallel, dream and association become starting points of expression.

Agelos Antonopoulos,
Portrait 3,
Mixed media,
40 x 40 x 5 cm,
Athens, 2019 - 2021

Two people ending in symbols. Modern ideograms. MM and AA become the “MA”(pun which means but in Greek) of a gaze that flickers in time, of a silence that a nocturne landscape emerges.

Agelos Antonopoulos,
Portrait 4,
Mixed media,
40 x 40 x 5 cm,
Athens, 2019 - 2021

In “MA”’s aesthetics They are transforming into a new linear b, the red thread of Klotho, Lachesis and Atropos in the ancient Greek myth of Fate, in an alienated alphabet-primer of emotional intelligence, in a mystical atmosphere where the mind, through identification, ends up in its primary needs. Nature.

Agelos Antonopoulos,
Portrait 4,
Mixed media, plexiglass,
40 x 40 x 5 cm,
Athens, 2019 - 2021