Made in Heaven
Stamatis Theocharis
07/04/22 - 07/05/22 Athens TEXT BY Niovi Kritikou CURATED BY Niovi Kritikou TRANSLATION BY Niovi Kritikou ART DIRECTOR Maria Almpani
Death becomes Them,
acrylic on canvas,
40 x 30 cm
The pink fantasy world of Stamatis Theocharis draws inspiration by the culture of saltibags found in P. Picasso's pink period, the pop aesthetics of J. Rosenquist, and the surrealistic recording of R. Magritte's form.
Drowned by love,
acrylic on canvas,
80 x 60 cm
With a careful observation boxed narratives become apparent. The frame lives inside the frame, behind decorative and kaleidoscopic symbols. Synthesis reminiscing Renaissance and models with voyeuristic poses transport us to the birth of gender liberation.
Lost in the woods,
acrylic on canvas,
80 x 60 cm
The often use of gold colour transports us to a parallel post-Byzantine timeless place. In this way Stamatis personifies the concept of gender fluidity and translates it into universality. It turns it into a cult image, indelible in time.
The fool pendulum,
acrylic on canvas,
80 x 60 cm
Pink appears in a paradoxical way breaking the typical pretexts and at the same time clearly refers to the colour of flesh and genitals. His brushes are structured and strict, almost with typographic precision.
Cravings,
acrylic on canvas,
100 x 120 cm
The central theme becomes the modern iconography of the Holy Table, transporting us to a divine celestial landscape. The man-woman dipole is integrated into a one and only existence. This contrast introduces us to issues of identity and internal observation.
Deus ex machina,
acrylic on canvas,
70 x 130 cm
When the main subject becomes oval, it resembles the pregnancy of a potentially hatching self. Are we born or become? The question of our philosophical pursuits is eternal.
Emancipation,
acrylic on canvas,
80 x 60 cm
The artist responds with the inner judge of himself and raises issues of fetish and bipolarity.
Fertility,
acrylic on canvas,
100 x 70 cm
The strange, as one might say, the QUEER, the LGBD community, the BDSM, the woman with the beard that radiates prestige or the female pirate, the disguises, the angels, the union of two heads, the shackles through ropes and knots, flowers and Greek traditional tablecloth, pipes and cityscape, Japanese references, graffiti, comics, kinky clothes, animals such as butterflies and snakes, pigs and flies, become a game of redemption and liberation from the shackles of social projects.
Fluid reality,
acrylic on canvas,
100 x 80 cm
Stamatis's hand becomes the printing machine of a dreamy associative world that reacts to anything established. It redefines the viewer's gaze and captures as a photo reporter, a Queer bubble gum manifesto, with invisible pieces of a hidden, sensitive, cunning and free from prejudice, love life.
Lite and soft,
acrylic on canvas,
100 x 70 cm
Ma Lisa,
acrylic on canvas,
70 x 50 cm
Made in heaven,
acrylic on canvas,
80 x 60 cm
Self-indulgence,
acrylic on canvas,
35 x 45 cm
Sinners go to heaven too,
acrylic on canvas,
100 x 90 cm
So close,so far away,
acrylic on canvas,
60 x 45 cm
Standing by,
acrylic on canvas,
50 x 40 cm
Synthesis,
acrylic on canvas,
50 x 40 cm