Ero Farmaka - Water stories

Ero Farmaka presents her sixth solo exhibition of paintings with titled:
"Water stories" at Gallery Kypriaki Gonia in Larnaca from 17 April to 10 May 2013.

Water Stories, seabed stories, stories of the sea and the ocean Stories of rain and rivers, stories of liquids and tears. An invitation to a watery world bright, dark, turbulent, motionless, real and metaphysical.

I woke up in(side) the sky, eyes sad and a sun shining in the deep. Whispering silently sacred sounds to break the secrets of their vast silence. Primordial tenderness flooded my soul in the secret, transparent and beneficial silence of creation.

The invitation to witness a “watery” pursuing of a personal language, for the creation of a poetical representation of nature. A visual reality that transforms into a poetic new colour space. Nature analysed in colour, light, shadows and shapes moving between abstraction and symbolism. "Coloured light or bright colours," which stem from the soul, as well as external stimuli. Degradation of the form, colour and shape through the aesthetic sense of the blinding sunlight refractions. Yellow hues and iridescences move silently in grey-black skies and the deep blue sea.

"Water Stories" is a visual narration and a “sensuous conversation” through reality and all those that exist even beyond it. Abstract images, fairy, expressionistic and symbolic, which work with a combination of complex conceptual levels. Forgotten images that reflect the lost innocence of mankind. An aqua world that becomes the means to interpret thoughts, mental states, emotional conflicts, movement or stillness, melancholy and sadness. Remembrance, imagination, nostalgia, light, darkness, tears, human absence and loss.
Creating with painting terms a universe of relations that aim to investigate the possibility to illustrate the perpetual ambiguity between movement and eternity.

Ero Farmaka was born in Nicosia. She was leaving and working until recently in Thessaloniki. She graduated from the School of Fine Arts, of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki-department of Painting. She also attended the Εengraving and the Photography department. Her MA is in painting at the school of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

She is a member of the Graduated Association Students of the School of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki and E.K.A.T.E Cyprus.

2011 - 2012 Teaching Drawing and Painting in Secondary Education.
2010 - 2013 Teaching Fundamentals of Drawing to the students of the Department of Architecture, at the University of Nicosia.
1997 - 2012 Teaching Drawing and Painting to the students of the School of Drama, Faculty of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki In the Department of Stage and Costume design.

She participated in a lot of group exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus and Spain. She also participated in the first biennale in Thessaloniki ETEROTOPIES 1st Biennale of Modern Art, Thessaloniki 2007. Paintings of Ero Farmaka are in public collections. Some paintings are in the Public Library of Cyprus, at Zabella’s collection, at Cooperative Bank of Engomi, at the Typography centre Theopress and at other public and private collections in Cyprus and abroad.

Opening on Wednesday 17/4/2013 at 7.30 p.m.

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