06/05/2025
INVITATION - PRESS RELEASE
JIORGOS VOUROS visual artist and the Curator and Scientific Director
Dr. KONSTANTINOS BOURAS have the honor to invite you to the
Cultural Center MELINA o of Athens Municipality
Irakleidon 66 in Thissio at the solo ART ΕΧΗΙΒΙΤΙΟΝ of Jiorgos Vouros with the title « CITIES & EVENTS – TERRANICA» and at the SPEECHES / EVENTS that we are co-organizing in the Exhibition area on the topics:
1. The Vision of IOANNIS KAPODISTRIAS for the organization and operation of a modern Greek Democratic State, Education, Law and Prosperity for all in Greece, yesterday, today, tomorrow. (Saturday April 5th time 19.00 - 20.30)
2. The role of MODERN ART in Culture in the 20th & 21st centuries.
(Sunday April 6th 18.00 - 21.00)
3. The ARCHEOTHEMA theatrical works of Dr. Konstantinos Bouras
(Wednesday April 9th 19.00 - 21.00)
4. Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources and Our Ecological Footprint
on an already damaged Planet from overexploitation.
(Saturday April 12th at 18.00 - 21.00)
5. Speech, Image, Performing Arts and Criticism Today.
(Sunday April 13th at 19.00 - 21.00)
6. "STERNOPOYLI" poetry collection by Dr. Konstantinos Bouras NIKAS Publications (Monday April 14th 18.00 – 20.30)
DURATION of the Exhibition 1 -15 APRIL 2025 with hours and days:
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 11.00 – 19.00 (Mondays are closed)
Wednesday, Saturday & Sunday 11.00 – 15.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Presentation of the Exhibition by Curator Dr. Konstantinos Bouras
“CITIES and EVENTS – TERRANICA”
A painting feast through watercolor etching, abstract hagiography.
Folk-style descriptiveness and mythical narrative that refers to an individual yet shared universe.
The Palace of Knossos is being restored and is waiting to be frescoed by Giorgos Vouros, a photographer of interior landscapes with an untamed and irresistible inter-subjectivity.
Silences and pauses of the brush grant the adequate viewer-reader of this complex but friendly code those internal breaths that allow him to reflect, reflect, be fed back and analyze what is perceived through the senses, what enters the labyrinth of the mind, which also contains the heart (the greatest vector in nature).
In simplicity lies wisdom, in purity lies purity. The subtle also has grace. Not for elliptical reasons but as a result of complete possession of the means of expression by an artist who has become so familiar with the material that he can now represent the immaterial, the formless, even the formless, with the friendship that embraces mouths, bodies, colors and souls that have not lost contact with their generative cause.
Theophilos and Makrygiannis pass through his paintings, along with Don Quixote and Chernobyl, while boats sail in Piraeus with windless sails like water clouds.
The element of water dominates here, overflowing the emotion, overwhelming us, but it does not threaten to drown the viewer, because he is seated round in the majestic security of his inner throne. He does not wet his feet in the Jordan. It is the work of the most worthy artist to wet his own feet and bring fish for us, the hungry and thirsty Truth and Justice.
Because Beauty is synonymous with Harmony and Beauty borders on and presupposes truth. Whole. Self-existent and indivisible. Sovereignty.
This Renaissance artist has power over us, since he can direct and redirect our gaze towards inner landscapes of inconceivable purity, where the eye becomes the ear and synesthetic metaphor dominates.
We salute this trained talent. There is so much toil and painstaking study behind these works that time expands and becomes space, spreads out into parallel universes and dissolves us in the watercolor of the dancer's doubt.
This gaze is pleasing to the eye and compassionate, sensitive and very expensive, betraying the inner luxury of freedom that money can buy, but is never enough to complete takeoff.
The gaze orbits through so many immortal skies, seas and mountains, emblematic symbols and landscapes, archetypal motifs of a story that is achieved only with images, exclusively and only with wisely calculated movements of the emotional in the visible, guiding us to the Invisible and Ineffable, to the Permanent.
These paintings demonstrate sharpness and skill as they are ritually displayed in a staged event that intensifies the theatrical condition of human life, of immaterial reality, ours, the only tolerable one.
Abstraction here is skill. Wisdom and self-reliance.
Great Art liberates us, teaches us and guides us through the narrow path of the brightest Dawn that leads unerringly to the new Renaissance. And George Vouros is a harbinger of it. Lark and swallow and cuckoo. Only he is no longer alone, but exposed to eternity in full splendor.
Signs and monsters are tamed under his paintbrush.
Prophet of a new era that has not yet dawned.
Elements from comics, cinematic motifs, folk themes and styles are ground in a crucible of healthy metabolism of intertextual references, creating an aftertaste that cannot be considered merely familiar.
Unfamiliarity is a key component and fundamental functionality of Art.
All of this is familiar and yet unrecognizable. Complex and yet simple.
Landscapes and cities of the future time-space, which we can already feel nostalgic for, as soon as our gaze leaves the canvas.
Because canevas, a mysterious net is what limits us and hides the clear view behind the seven veils of Isis-Salome.
Thanks to these convincing images, thanks to these visual poems, we can not only get through our day but also our entire life creatively.
The call of great Art, through imitation, becomes a spiritual and joyful movement, a kindling of an inner fire, from that which does not burn the eyes but enlivens them.
George Vouros paints as if he were photographing something that only he sees, but which immediately becomes dear to us as well, precious, irreplaceable, unrepeatable and unique.
Seek him out. Buy his works. Never him himself. He will grant you the immortality of the moment that lasts centuries, when you look at a painting and everything is obvious. Tolerable. Desirable. Unique. And the loaves of bread that stand on their own in the bakery of a Theophilus and the emotions, feelings and aftereffects that we could not tame until that blessed hour when we met, crossed paths and encountered a great artist.
We got to know George Vouros through his work. Man is simply the vehicle. The miracle worker is the co-creative eye of the viewer. Of every adequate reader of an art that is ancient but also very alive, since it is constantly fed by the sounds of our anguish, human, existential.
Dr. Konstantinos Bouras, poet, theatrologist, Ph.D. in translation, post-doc scholar, critic. Member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Foundation of Books and Culture and member of the Parnassos Literary Association. www.konstantinosbouras.gr
CONTACT & INFORMATIONS FOR THE EXHIBITION :
JIORGOS ( GEORGE ) VOUROS Tel. 6932276617
Dr. KONSTANTINOS BOURAS Tel. 6942616402
