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Lia Stamopoulou, who is the creator of all these representations, with the mono-chromatic strength of a primitive substance such as  ink, intents to render a wholeness, a completion, in other words, something integral, in the most elliptical way.

By the adoption of an expressionistic vocabulary in its most abstract version, the artist communicates to the spectator feelings and thoughts with a par excellence transgression of documented encounters. 

This liberated depiction can be achieved by means of black spot vis-à-vis white canvass/paper, by the fluctuated width and length of lines, by the feeble moment towards the continuous and the directness of time.

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The exhibition of the paintings you see offers the potential as well as the chance to reconsider, not only an esteemed collection of artistic creativity but an unusual visual intervention, so that a multiply neglected building, especially in its ground level usage, can be part of the city map again, just as the header of this piece connotes…  

 

Konstantinos Basios

member of A.I.C.A.

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