2009 MINA PAPATHEODOROU - VALYRAKI

The new art exhibition
"METAL REFLECTIONS"

The first presentation of the new artwork
"MYSTICAL DINNER" – A TRIBUTE TO ADREA DEL SANTO

Art Gallery
"Ikastikos Kyklos"

Harilaou Trikoupi 121 and Karneadou 20

Kolonaki - Athens

   

Loud, vivacious colors, splashed liberally on canvas, characterize the verve and spirit of Mina Valyraki’s work. Her cranes, taxis and cars literally quiver with movement. The theme of her exhibition, Metallic Reflections, is modern in the best sense of the word: the subject matter of her works are well-known and instantly recognizable objects of modernity.

The first set of objects are the mechanical arms used to build high-rises, the industrial crane. Here black cranes loom over distant horizons, rise up against the yellow sky, possible the exhaust of work furnaces. Cranes lend themselves to trigonometric shapes, so her canvas reveals a criss-crossing of triangles.

The black shapes are set against crocus and cadmium yellow sunsets and reveal the glittering life of an industrial season at full throttle. The industrial cranes are also done against a background of blue cobalt and other lighter blue hues, and this lends to the black triangular shapes a quieter sensibility.


 

Nikos Papandreou
Athens, 2009

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