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The Odyssey Within is a captivating survey of modern-day artists from Greece and Italy. The artistic conceptions vary dramatically while retaining a distinctive European character attentive to the human condition. Works of both quiet introspection and visual bravado are included, offering a unique look into the contemporary art coming from these two prominent Mediterranean locales.
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Tommaso Arscone
 
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My vocation can be explained through a combination of figures and colors aimed to produce not only a pleasant visual expression, but also an ideal suggestion of proportionate order and harmony.
I use images that give shape to the intuition of matters until I’m able to draw near what is unique and intimate in them. The shape of the visage and the harmonical details allow the observer to be free to imagine what may not necessarily be there.
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Illusione
"Illusione"
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Leonardo Ciccarelli
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My art is the result of long mental journeys through spaces and places never visited.
Imagination leads me to travel in space and time, chasing after my distant origins and the love for nature that surrounds us. My works are fleeting images, like visions disappearing quickly through the window of a train. The speed of the images is the sign of the speed of life: space and time come together in a way that is inseparable.
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Memoire 6
"Memoire 6"
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Memoire 10
"Memoire 10"
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Gio
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Italian artist Gio abstractly represents nature in all its force and beauty. In his paintings, the disposition of each color is sensitively determined, and they work together to form a viscerally felt mood. His mysterious forms reflect an interest in Nordic Runes and Rosicrucian symbols. Having achieved an original, personal style, Gio is studious of the history of abstract painting. Drawing inspiration as much from Action Painting as Op Art, his radiant, individual sensibility shines through his dazzling brushstrokes.
Gio investigates color’s potential to probe and heal the viewer’s psyche. Goethe and Rudolf Steiner have proved very influential to his thinking. Intellectually curious across multiple disciplines, Gio invites complex, varied interpretations. Also an accomplished drummer, he credits music’s influence in the creation of his work. He generally paints with oils on canvas, but has experimented over time with various media. Through canvases that vibrate with frenetic multicolored forms, Gio communicates a willingness for fantastic events to occur in our lives.
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Black, Blue and Violet
"Black, Blue and Violet"
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Wunjo
"Wunjo"
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Hariclia Michailidou
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I was born in a small village in northern Greece in the summer of 1951, at a time when we were emerging from the ruins of the Second World War into a time of great new forces in all areas of life. Those two influences, of the near past and the emerging forces of the future, are always present in my life, both exercising great powers on me transforming my life and my work. Equally, the power of the present also has its effect and certainly the world around me enriches me constantly with new impressions. The sweet fragrances of our planet, the strong desires, the wisdom of great teachers, the grandeur of the universe, our conception of infinity and eternity, the unknown, all of these things, at times tormenting and at times exalting me, are strong forces that form myself and my work as I evolve.
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"1a.night1,74,b,m,w1,m8"
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"1a.night1,74,b,m2,w3,f1,m1,secs,m"
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Francesco Mino
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I live in Biella, Italy where I work in a small, yet inspiring attic. There, I cut and paste, trying to tell stories, apparently ordinary; they are someone else’s stories, emotions that have delighted or caused sadness to who, in that moment, lived. My wooden boards are a puzzle of ideas and thoughts, hardly explicit, but always edged by the sensual pleasure of color. I like to imagine my works as ironic journeys, full of dreams and thoughts, imaginary references and quotes realized through the culture of living in the past, present and future.
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La Finestra
"La Finestra"
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Miti Che Non Tramontano
"Miti Che Non Tramontano"
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Costas Petrides
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Costas Petrides’ paintings of an otherworldly “space-scape” invite the viewer’s eye on a visual and spiritual journey through a new geography rich with perceptible symbols. Although the artist intends for viewers to make their own interpretive observations and find their own personal meanings in his works, Petrides imparts a deep religious undercurrent to each of his paintings of the heavens. His bold paintings, which illustrate the infinite and incomprehensible magnitude of space, reference the omnipotence of God or the Absolute. Petrides utilizes an abstracted vocabulary of personal symbols, painted directly from his own soul, thus resulting in a deeply personal and highly ethereal body of work.
Born in Cyprus, artist Costas Petrides began painting as a means to express his innermost feelings, thoughts and experiences. Petrides, who also works as a psychologist, possesses a profound understanding of the human psyche. He encourages his viewers to explore his works with an open mind and feel the healing power that only art can bring.
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Travelling in Space
"Travelling in Space"
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Eternal Symbols (2)
"Eternal Symbols (2)"
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Occhi Pinti
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Ever since my youth I have been attracted by the creativity of painting in all its forms. I am dedicated to finding new techniques, from pencil to pastels to china and oil on canvas. An artistic journey begun in art school and continued at the University of Architecture in Venice, was born of my deep passion for drawing, and meticulous taste in color, by the desire to communicate a magical atmosphere, offering the viewer strong emotions. The objects of my attention have been many, from landscape, serene expanses of greenery and water, cottages, churches and castles, flowers and ethnic faces. My desire is to awaken the freedom and sensibility that is in each one of us, to help us discover the beauty of nature and what it can give us.
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Verso il Cielo
"Verso il Cielo"
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Melodia Dipinta
"Melodia Dipinta"
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Luca Scopetti
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Luca Scopetti's work is often thematically focused on the human condition, and his visual exploration of these fervently held topics conjures a universe of textures and forms. Whether he conducts a frenzy of colors and shapes that climb up the canvas, or focuses on visual motifs that are more iconic and symmetrical, his paintings tap directly into the viewer's subconscious through a dance of shapes that occupy a space partly in the material world and partly in a dream state. Yet Luca's paintings remain grounded in real-life concerns, with a dynamic mix of organic forms lying hidden within his abstract gyrations. His works conjure an equally wide range of moods, by turns carnivalesque, brooding, or contemplative.
There is a dual nature to the passion in Luca's aesthetic--his focus is both formal as well as thematic, and his innovative use of the canvas has its counterpart in his courageous delving into the psychological. He challenges as well as invites us with these original, visually appealing works.
He currently works and resides in Fornacette-Pisa, Italy.
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Spirits
"Spirits"
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Invasion
"Invasion"
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Vania Stefou
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The dynamic of being human serves as Vania Stefou’s primary inspiration, especially the physical complexity of the human body and its systems. The way we are wired internally, and what that wiring yields in our world - this is all part of the artistic landscape Vania explores in her art. Her work process involves her exploration of the vivid interactions between varying types of paint colors and textures, as well as using different types of paint, including acrylic and metallic. At times the composition of her paintings is deliberately symmetrical, employing the repetition of forms across her canvas as a means of highlighting variations in tone and shading. She employs a mix of abstract expressionism and real-life elements inspired by ocean life, earth-bound life and outer space to embrace a holistic view of the universe we live in and its infinite possibilities.
Vania lives and works amidst the islands of Greece, a location that continues to feed her creative spirit.
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Perfect Machine III
"Perfect Machine III"
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One Million Thoughts
"One Million Thoughts"
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Leanne Talbot
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I live and paint in Marino, a small town in the Castelli Romani near Rome. My studio is located on the lip of a volcano wherein lies a beautiful round deep blue lake. I hear the sound of festivities, traffic and voices outside my window while I paint. I’m fascinated by the quality and intensity of Mediterranean light and its almost liquid quality. The sea, the vineyards, the forests, whatever the subject, it’s all about chiaroscuro. More than just visual, the hand-smoothed and whitewashed walls, overhanging palms and bougainvillea, forests of fine-leafed trees, stairways and arches that lead to sunlit piazzas, are reminiscent of happy discoveries. I want my paintings to speak to the heart, like a good friend. I am happy to know that people grow to love my paintings more and more as the years pass by.
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Storm Blowing Towards Monte Soratte
"Storm Blowing Towards Monte Soratte"
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Olive Grove in Puglia
"Olive Grove in Puglia"
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