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Pavlos
Samios: A Retrospective
April 4 - May 7, 2002
The Foundation for Hellenic Culture,
Inc.
7 West 57th Street - New York
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 4, 2002
- 7:30 p.m.
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The Foundation for Hellenic Culture, Inc.:
Tel.: 212.308.6908 - Fax: 212.308.0919
E-mail: iep.ny@ix.netcom.com
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On
Thursday, April 4, 2002 at 7: 30 pm The Foundation for Hellenic
Culture will present to the American public the first exhibition
of Pavlos Samios –one of the foremost contemporary Greek
painters– in U.S.A. The opening reception for the exhibition
“Pavlos Samios: A retrospective” will take place at
the Foundation’s premises located on 7 West 57 Street. (Part
of the exhibition is on display at the General Consulate of Greece
located on 69 East 79th Street.)
The exhibit is accompanied by a colorful catalogue available at
the Foundation for Hellenic Culture. For more information on this
exhibition, please contact the Foundation for Hellenic Culture
or visit www.foundationhellenicculture.com.
For more information on Pavlos Samios’ work, please visit
www.samiospavlos.com
or email the artist at samiospavlos@s.p.com |
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Pavlos
Samios
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Meeting
Acrylic on canvas
215 x 105 cm (7' 3/4" x 45 1/4")
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Noon
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm (15 3/4 x 19 3/4")
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Pavlos
Samios was born in Athens in 1948. He studied at the Athens
School of Fine Arts under Nikos Nikolaou and Yannis Moralis,
who initiated him into the language of good painting. The
anonymous icon painters of the Byzantine tradition revealed
to him the secrets of monumental art, while the teachers
of the Generation of the Thirties had opened up the road
to a new understanding of the Greek tradition in the light
of Modern Art. Recently he was elected a university teacher
at the Byzantine Traditional Painting Workshop of the Athens
School of Fine Arts.
Pavlos Samios represents the Greek painting which was established
in the last decades of the twentieth century, at a time
when national and cultural frontiers were becoming increasingly
blurred. He belongs to the “story artists,” as
Leon Batista Alberti called those who serve an anthropocentric
art which for centuries held first place on the ladder of
the hierarchy. Myth and story provided an inexhaustible
mine for the painters of the tradition. Samios draws his
own narrative material from everyday life, which is often
transformed into every day insanity.
The works of Samios –a painter with a gaze which penetrates
through time and a very experienced hand- were produced
with the artist having in his mind the major exhibition
in New York and include everything which the artist considers
that he can say through his work to the art lovers of the
metropolis as a painter and as an intellectual coming from
a great cultural tradition. The Dragon, a symbol of the
Byzantine tradition, characterizes this series of his works
for the New York exhibition. The Dragon reveals itself dynamically,
symbolizing the hidden part of ourselves, that something
which represents our desire for daring, eroticism, glory,
optimism in a metaphysical and creative game of life. |
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The
Foundation for Hellenic Culture is a nonprofit organization
founded in Athens in 1992 to promote and disseminate Greek culture
and language at the international level. Today, under the auspices
of the Greek Ministry of Culture and with branches in Odessa,
Alexandria, Berlin, Paris, London and New York, the FHC organizes
and supports a vast range of activities including exhibitions,
concerts, lectures, film festivals, music and dance festivals.
The FHC in New York, with seven years of consistent presence
within New York, strives to bring to the American public unique
programs of Greek artistry, creativity, and spirit. Join the
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