Aquatic City
gallery genesis
Athens
2024
Reflecting the visible, attempting the invisible
Returning with unparalleled pictorial certainty to the liquid element, a thematic and symbolic field that he knows in depth, negotiating the transitory transparent matter of water that enters here kaleidoscopically, reflecting and reimagining silent successive cosmic abbreviations that touch and stimulate the personal and collective geographical and synaesthetic memory of the viewer, Giorgos Saltaferos breaks through the barrier of the visible and the possible, inviting us to enter a magical sphere of successive instantaneous curvatures and prismatic hollow episodes, alternating illusory dioramas and rifts of true existence.
Working in a mirror manner, excavating and recreating a theme through which he has given us mutual emotions in the past, Saltaferos leads us into an immaterial reverse world that is born intuitively from the beginning, reflected with exciting painting skill and sensuous mastery. Cities and buildings, water tanks, ship hulls and traces of faint human presence, spectrums of momentary imprinted color and hues of lived place and time, are mirrored here in swirling circles or transversely woven echoes and re-raised in reverse and sequentially, reassembled through clever optical ins and outs sculptural wrinkles, Cities and buildings, water tanks, ship hulls and traces of faint human presence, spectrums of momentary embossed color and hues of lived place and time, are mirrored here in swirling circles or transversely woven echoes and re-raised in reverse and sequentially, reassembled through brilliant visual sculptural wrinkles, gradually unfolding and triumphantly proclaiming the personal Wunderkammer and possibly an allusive self-portrait of the great painter.
Iris Kritikou
Archaeologist & Art Historian
