Haralabos Katsatsidis

Corrections and Tunings

10 May – 30 June 2018 Athens CURATED BY Yiannis Bolis

With his new work, Haralabos Katsatsidis validates the quality and the possibilities, the solid artistic education, the complex experimentation, the coherence and the consistency, the wide and the conquered maturity of his artistic and plastic research.

Haralabos Katsatsidis,
Painters go to heaven,
4 m x 2 m,
oil on canvas,
2016-18

Large-scale projects reveal the full possession of expressive means, the experience and knowledge of the problems of form and design, composition, structure and space, the function of color.

Haralabos Katsatsidis,
Learning the flute,
4 m x 2 m,
oil on canvas,
2014-16

The material, its handling and its processing, claim a primary position in the Painting Act.

Haralabos Katsatsidis,
Three dirty ladies
4 m x 2 m,
oil on canvas,
2015-17

A touch of fluid color becomes the starting point for the creation of a whole universe of shapes – peculiar and riveting, ambiguous and cryptic – where the figuration is involved with the abstract.

Haralabos Katsatsidis,
The dream,
4 m x 2 m,
oil on canvas,
2016-17

The plasticity, density and scuffle of the shapes, the expressionist deformities, the intensity of the black and the chromatic flashes, the design acuity and the dominant grids of the lines, the strength and roughness of the gestural painting, create counterpoints and balances, movements, routes and postures, impart rhythm and dynamism, clarity and vitality.

Haralabos Katsatsidis,
Anax - Dionysus,
4 m x 2 m,
oil on canvas,
2014-15

The creator “corrects” and “synchronizes” lines, colors and shapes, organizes, with precision, the painting field, relationships and encounters of patterns and forms, the ambiguous, fluid and elliptical spaces of narratives and stories, transformations and transpositions.

Haralabos Katsatsidis,
Grandmum`s lesson,
2 m x 2 m,
oil on canvas,
2016-17

A whole world, paradoxical, ambivalent and shattered, emerges like a meteor on the verge between fantasy, dream and reality.

Haralabos Katsatsidis,
Inferno couple,
2 m x 2 m,
oil on canvas,
2015-16

A world where the Biblical Ark coexists with Salome, the monstrous men's forms (which sometimes reveal their feminine side) and the animal like figures, a world where cruelty, morbidity and eroticism coexist with sensitivity and fragility, in an atmosphere of uncertainty, anxiety and agitation, dramatic passion and romantic-lyrical mood.

Haralabos Katsatsidis,
Salome`s last dance,
2 m x 2 m,
oil on canvas,
2016-17

The compositions of H. Katsatsidis reflect a particular psyche (soul), an internal way of experiencing reality, give the impression that they emanate directly from the subconscious, reveal and conceal, communicate and interact, are imposed by the monumentality, exude emotion and truth, are opened in multiple readings and approaches, in an area of allegories about life and love, violence and death, adventures and anxieties of existence.

Haralabos Katsatsidis,
Heroes go to heavens,
2 m x 2 m,
oil on canvas,
2014-15

The close viewing of compositions of such large dimensions creates a different condition, intended by their creator.

Haralabos Katsatsidis,
Portrait of a man I,
2 m x 2 m,
oil on canvas,
2014-15

The viewer is invited not only to come to a more direct contact with the painting process but also to find themselves at the core of these works, to “navigate” through them, to search in the deciphering of their secrets, to seek out their sign tones and his/her own symbolic and emotional references.