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On Friday, 8 November, at 19.30, Sianti Gallery has the pleasure of presenting the solo exhibition of the painter Panagiotis Siagris, under the title “Transpositions”.
The curator of the exhibition, Mr. Dimitris Trikas, journalist and museologist, eloquently underlines:
“Through the use of some of his favorite and familiar materials such as canvas, oil, acrylics and plexiglass, the artist addresses a variety of issues in an attempt to awaken the viewer. As always, nature and the urban landscape take a prominent position in his work, yet in the works of this particular exhibition, a newly introduced factor creates additional intellectual transitions: it is none other than the human will and our capacity to make choices, something which brings forth a kind of reflection on the de-stressed era we live in, rising a number of questions in connection to the artist’s concerns for all the things, which cast a shade of gray on our world.
As a true geometer and architect, Panagiotis Siagris molds the space he wishes to appropriate, seeking a feeling of balance, tranquility and safety, which is of the outmost importance, while, as the restless spirit that he is, he searches and constructs multiple points of escape, allowing a constant freedom of the being. In this way, he justifies the human paradox, the simultaneous need for rest and motion, familiarity and adventure, and in the end, stability and freedom. Siagris performs his chromatic alchemy in order to reconstruct the World, making it livable instead of fallen and unlivable, in the spirit of Socrates, who, during his trial, insisted that this is Mankind’s one and only true value: not only to live, but to live worthily, to live a livable life which will honor the essence of being, giving it meaning and purpose.
Siagris, in his 11th solo exhibition, seems to have left behind (I wonder, for good or just for now?) all previous objet trouvè, the rust and mesh of his modernistic past. Here, he seems to be diving into the depths of pure painting, leaving the safety of the blue shades which made him widely known and won him the favor of his viewers, in order to bring to the forefront emotions and tensions much more suited to our present, war-driven and feverish world.”
Using examples from the corpus of the exhibition, the curator writes in his catalogue notes:
…”I would like to conclude with one more example of artistic bravery, the white-black-gray work titled ‘Eleven Points of Escape’. Here, an empty house in the woods creates a powerful, yet simple image, screaming in its absolute silence, while the points of escape created by the artist through the use of scattered brushstrokes of pearl on plastic color, are reserved solely for the viewer’s eye, since there’s no one else there to make an escape or – if you prefer – to disrupt the landscape’s thundering silence.
But in the end, the color blue will return, embellishing life with the water element and, more importantly, making a sea-bed under the tall, protective trees. And the creator, who has passed through the reds of war and the purples of loneliness, will find a point of reference, returning to the livable life he always yearned for…”
Finally, as Kostas Leimonis, attorney of Law and art connoisseur, underlines in his personal notes:
“The artist’s technique doesn’t follow the usual, well-tested and safer paths, but manages, with great mastery, to bind randomness with logic and a specific moment with the purpose which created it. The idea of transposition has to do with the sentiment created through atmospheres and emotions, through the landscapes or the scenery, or even through the idea of timeless time, as we see the notions of “then”, “now” and “tomorrow” conversing and antagonizing one another without an obvious winner – thankfully for us. And it is this uncertainty around ‘when’ and ‘where’, which makes each work so unique, since the painter doesn’t necessarily confine the viewer to a particular point or message. He could just as well see a nostalgic past, an auspicious present or an illegible future.”