Exhibition “Passages and Directions” at the Corfu Art Gallery, until 11/10/2024.

Opening of the group art exhibition “Passages and Directions” at the Corfu Art Gallery

The Corfu Art Gallery presents the group art exhibition “Passages and Directions.”

Four female painters, Aspasia Sigourakou, Georgia Monastirioti, Greta Cappellemans, and Natasha Maneta, who have been active in the Corfu art scene for many years, are jointly showcasing their artistic creations in the temporary exhibition hall of the Corfu Art Gallery.

The upcoming exhibition will feature paintings, drawings, and collages that uniquely depict landscapes, human figures, flowers, and shapes through expressionist, abstract, and realistic forms.

As the exhibition title suggests, the artists aim to express the transience of things and moments, as well as the timeless elements that coexist within them.

“The timeless essence flows, capturing the potential temporality of the world. The passages of people are a rushing river, each passage a time, a history trying to legislate value systems. But humanity’s cell remembers and grows wild. The river of memory swells, overflows, and carves new paths. This is the Ode, creating life within death.”
— Penelope Volterra

Artists:

• Aspasia Sigourakou was born, raised, and studied in Athens. She has lived in Corfu with her family since 1980. Self-taught, she works with photography, painting, collage, printmaking, and crafts. In Corfu, she took lessons from renowned artists to enhance her knowledge of art’s “grammar.”
• Georgia Monastirioti was born and lives in Corfu. She graduated from KSK in 2006, where she studied drawing and painting under Spiros Alamanos. She continued with teachers Mandy Albani and Kostas Tombros and received important lessons in drawing from Gino Dimitratos. She also studied watercolor with Natalie Konstantis and completed her studies at the visual arts workshop of Sophia Stavrou. She now teaches watercolor.
• Greta Cappellemans was born in Brussels in 1966. At 18, she moved to Ghent to study animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK). In 1989, she began working as a designer-animator for Belgian television productions. A highlight in her career was her work as an assistant graphic designer-scenographer on the film Taxandria by renowned director Raoul Servais.
• Natasha Maneta was born, lives, and works in Corfu. She graduated from the Political Department of the Law School of Athens and has been active in commerce. She studied under well-known Corfu painters Spiros Alamanos and Kostas Tombros, as well as Mandy Albani, at the Corfu Art School, from which she graduated.

Exhibition Curator: Marina Papasotiriou, curator of the National Gallery, Corfu branch.

Opening event: Wednesday, September 11, at 20:00 at the Corfu Art Gallery, 77 I. Theotoki.

Exhibition dates: 11/09/2024 – 11/10/2024

Visiting hours: 09:00 – 16:00, Monday to Friday.

Corfu Art Gallery
77 Ioannou Theotoki
Tel.: 26610 41085
E-mail: info@corfuartgallery.com