Tint gallery presents Thanos Klonaris solo exhibition starting on February and ending in March 2010.
By using painting, drawing and processed photographs, Thanos Klonaris creates hybrid places where real and imaginary elements co-exist harmonically. In his recent research, he is exploring the boundaries between the real and the imaginative, the relations and the opposites between existing and non-existing spaces.
Addressing the same issues, his present body of work is entitled Islands: Earth surrounded by water. Small or large in surface, with specific and controlled boundaries, islands are very often considered ideal places for seclusion, insulation and hermitage.
Islands have always constituted a philosophical/literary field of action for the bipolar terminology of good/evil. Thanos Klonaris sets questions which refer to mortality, and also the relationship between heaven and hell, based on the painting of Arnold Bocklin “The isle of dead’’, whilst relating John’s revelation in the island of Patmos, with isolation and the transcendental. As far as the social aspect of the islands is concerned and the need of man for quest, creation and communication, he investigates the secluded but inventive Robinson Crusoe and the misanthrope character of D.H Lawrence’s novel “The Man who loved islands”, who deals with the social relations of man and his connection with nature. Concluding, islands as an artificial/natural paradise, the accounts to the utopias and the lost island of Atlantis, concern places where everything is based on perfection and balance.
The islands set the background and the subject matter for the exhibition of Thanos Klonaris, which elaborates in 3 axis, social, religious, imaginary.
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