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On Thursday 10 April 2025, at 19:00, Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti presents the solo exhibition of sculptor Eva Papadopoulou under the title “The Path”. For the sculptor, nature and tradition have always been an endless source of inspiration, while the timeless quality of experience is mirrored throughout her work, from her first creations to her more recent ones. This particular series of works represents her artistic search arranged in two different sections: Nature and Homecoming.
In the first section, Nature, the source of inspiration is nature itself. The structure and the flow of light, the shades of dawn and dusk, as well as the ancient myths are being molded into sculpted forms full of motion and harmony. The works, which investigate mythic symbols in particular (i.e. the depiction of Hercules or of the golden rain) give the art of sculpture a kind of narrational dimension.
The second section, Homecoming, is a sculpted flashback into memory through personal experiences and references to childhood. Everyday objects, such as an ice cream in the summer, granny’s chocolate treats, the rite of gatherings and Greek coffee or the images of her mother’s embroideries of Skyros, are transformed into symbols of longing and belonging.
Art historian Ira Papapostolou describes her work with the following words: “Eva works driven by her instinct and experiential knowledge. She follows the laws of nature and, through her poetic imagination, she creates true works of art”. In addition, art critic Denis Zacharopoulos notes: “The fragments of marble are being presented as fragments of a larger piece of nature and material reality. Eva Papadopoulou has found an unexpected way of confronting the gravity of history with the lightness of visual practices, which are being deconstructed and reconstructed at the turn of a new millennium of art”.
In Eva’s works, hundreds of fragments of marble are placed vertically on the frame’s surface creating a powerful anaglyph, which balances between sculpture and painting. Her compositions give a sense of motion, bearing something of a renewed, contemporary impressionism, in spite of the material’s intrinsic hardness. As the artist herself underlines: “It is a challenge to use an undisciplined material for the creation of an image which seems unbearably light”.
Her work, experienced as an incessant existential experience, sets free a number of personal images. Anaglyphic, functional sculpted objects and sculptures of monumental dimensions create an independent, sculpted world balancing between the past and the present, between memory and imagination.
In the end, the “Path” wishes to depict all those moments, which shape our identity and our memories, inviting the viewers to an experiential journey from the past to the present, from dream to reality.