Paintings with an underlying poetic
essence, paintings filled with motion, paintings with a raising
voice. Some scream while others whisper on love, peace, tenderness
though all of them have a common reference point, the notion of
eternity. The painter, Ioannis Karalias, manages through the
exhibition Reflections on a Fragment of Memory to extend and defeat
time, to attribute an infinite value to human life. Gazing through
the heart may travel you to dreamy places and through the paintings,
the observer arrives to that specific special place which calms the
soul. An ode to meditation, the ultimate balance between the mind and
the body.
The saturated brushes in orange,
yellow, pink and red inflict feelings of intimacy and passion similar
if one may say to those risen by a mother’s affection. The purple
elements provide a spiritual basis and penetrate to the deeper blue
levels of the subconscious apparatus from which a “super-ego”
fights to emerge. The eye of the beholder is transferred to natural
settings, where the earth meets the sky run by the sea and provided
with the opportunity to escape from a grey everyday life. The
observer feels to be walking barefoot, longing for the past years of
innocence yet with no feelings of vulnerability but with an immortal
attitude accompanied with a burning desire for life.
That same far end burning desire
can be perceived also in the poetry of Ioannis Karalias. Man looking
for partnership, brotherhood, the other half, a reference point to
bestow hopes and dreams. All these worldly expressed emotions
ultimately evolve into paintings and colors lurking for perpetuity.
In other words, I would argue that Ioannis Karalias has found the way
for painting to become poetry and vice versa, enabling us to feel and
touch the vastness of the universe. Finally, as rightly put by
Ioannis Karalias in some of our older conversations, “As, we the
people have removed the color from our lives, it is our duty to
restore it.” And he seems to have succeeded it in that.
Soft Cover: Perfect Bound
Pages:
68
Publication Date: 2016
Price: 25,00 euros
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