Close up

The Pantheon Gallery invites you to the opening of solo painting exhibition by Eleni Iasonidou “Close up” on Friday 9 April 2010, 8.00 pm.

By adopting the cinematographic term "Close Up" (CU), that means close up plan, I bring things nearer, the title leads one to think of various filmmaking techniques such as fade-out or dissolve that according to Hugo Munsterberg, bearing in mind the psychoanalytical quality of lens they make use the attention, the recollection, the imagination and the psychology of spectator.

Close up shots are more analytical, they do not include the wider scene, they are used in order to elect details and in my case, the sentiments and elements that compose the character of person or face.

With this inductive approach Elena Iasonidou, in her close-up shots, unnaturally extends the gaze - centre of the picture that focuses and leaves the spectators in uncertainty as for what they do not see, relatively after the rejection of part of the picture from the frame. Through the prospect of the subject obvious psychographics of gazes emerge, as well as the marks of sentimental situations of persons.

It selects people, real people, but not from the social environment of that person. Gazes from a distance of the unknown, using the expression as a criteria, the internal structure of person, the narration, the personnel experience and the semiotic operation of the gaze. It overtakes the surface and brings inner feelings in first plan, it recounts the internal landscape of a character.

Opening Hours
Monday- Friday: 11:00 – 13:00 & 17:00 – 20:00
Saturday: 11:00 – 13:00 & 16:00 – 20:00
Sunday: 16:00 – 20:00