Lefteris Tapas - Kaleidoscope

Omikron Gallery will be hosting a solo exhibition by Lefteris Tapas from 26 February until 29 March. Seven years after his last solo exhibition, the artist is presenting a new series of works which highlight his own personal artistic expression. In his new work, Tapas alternates between the natural and the artificial, the processed and raw, an architecturally built environment and the untouched forest. Through these, he wants to project, as he states, the idea of a “mental landscape, a cartography of the mind, a geography of memory and topography of the human psyche.”

With references as much to the conscious as to the subconscious, to contemporary graphic art and traditional crafts, and by using art’s most basic material, paper, Tapas manages to create an engaging series of works. Paper becomes polymorphic as sometimes it keeps its original characteristics and other times it imitates the properties of other materials. When cutting it he creates ‘paper embroidery’, like a fence made of images of birds. On his pieces of black and white leafy landscapes, he adds hints of coloured elements – in his strict two-toned landscapes, carefully chosen lines of colour jump out at you. In presenting his new work he has moved away from the standard square frame as he has chosen circular and spherical shapes. Sometimes they simply portray a picture and other times they resemble small universes: on a round, black surface, Tapas removes lots of tiny, round spots. The simplicity, which characterises his techniques, and the accessible feeling that his works convey make his art easy to understand.

In his notes, Tapas mentions that: “Two realities exist simultaneously: Nature and Architecture.” And so using architecture, he creates an environment which at the same time refers to a forest, which allegorically symbolises the dark areas of the mind. In his new, large pieces presented at Omikron Gallery, romance playfully intertwines the creation of dreamlike and fairytale like scenes.

Opening Friday 25 February, 2011, at 20:00
The exhibition will run from 26 February until 29 March, 2011

Opening Hours
Monday – Friday: 10:00-13:00 and 16:00-20:00
Saturday: 10:00-14:00

For more information contact Maria Stathi on +357 22678240