How to blue the yellow Or The Idea of Things
Rania Rangou
November 6 - December 6 2025 Athens CURATED BY Thanos Stathopoulos
Again & again,
oil on canvas,
120 x 120 cm,
2023
Guided by Plato's ‘theory of ideas’, the concept of things presented by the artist is that of ideal forms, ideas as realities, “true beings,” as opposed to their appearances and imperfect representations in the sensory world.
The artistic language of Rania Rangou unfolds at the intersection of painting and the experience of new media. Constantly experimenting with media and form, Rangou navigates a hybrid space where reality is both deconstructed and reconstructed. The real is not neutralized, but its forms are reinscribed within a new, enigmatic idol, something that exists as both this and that, here and elsewhere. This is not fantasy, but a coupling of the real with the unreal, the unconscious with the conscious.
The surprise, the dream, the paradox and the enigma that emerge from her images depict a moment of confrontation: the self facing itself, its questions, its thoughts, its inner needs and divisions, perhaps suspended at a crossroads, searching for its own personal truth.
Autonomous,
gesso, oil & acrylics on canvas,
120 x 120 cm,
2025
Conclusions,
oil & acrylics on canvas,
120 x 120 cm,
2024
Everything I find is myself,
digitally processed image on canvas,
120 x 90 cm,
2025
Everything I find is myself,
digitally processed photo,
113 x 140 cm,
2025
Exit,
gesso, oil & acrylics on canvas,
120 x 120 cm,
2024
Family,
digitally processed image,
130 x 130 cm,
2021
Good morning and goodnight,
guesso, oil & acrylics on canvas,
180 x 130 cm,
2023-25
His island,
oil & acrylics on canvas,
150 x 110 cm,
2024
I know,
oil, spray & acrylics on canvas,
120 x 120 cm,
2024-25
Me & myself 1,
oil & acrylics on canvas,
100 x 100 cm,
2025
Me & myself,
oil & acrylics on canvas,
100 x 70 cm,
2025
Me & myself 2,
oil & acrylics on canvas,
100 x 100 cm,
2025
Metaphor,
oil & acrylics on canvas,
120 x 100 cm,
2025
Metaphor,
oil, acrylics & charcoal spray on canvas,
120 x 120 cm,
2025
Metaphor 1,
oil & acrylics on canvas,
120 x 100 cm,
2025
Restart,
oil, guesso, acrylics & spray on canvas
and adhesive mirror,
150 x 200 cm,
2024-25
Slight return,
digitally processed photo,
140 x 113 cm,
2025
The perfect match,
oil, guesso & spray on canvas,
110 x 150 cm,
2024-25
The Poet,
Acrylics, Gesso and Spray on Canvas,
193 x 200 cm,
2025
Two,
oil & acrylics on canvas,
110 x 150 cm,
2024
What if no7,
oil & acrylics on canvas,
150 x 110 cm,
2024
What to find,
oil & acrylics on canvas,
130 x 130 cm,
2024
Zigirls,
digitally processed photo,
100 x 70 cm,
2025
