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Govedarou Art Gallery located at 5, G.Papandreou Street, Thessaloniki-Greece is organizing the solo exhibition of Irantzu Lekue under the title “I Feel, then I Exist”. The artist from the Basque country works social art, conceptual art, activism and art accessible through artistic installations, video art, painting and sculpture.
Her works are characterized by their social awareness work. Through various techniques, she has produced works that analyze the condition of women, social injustices, climate change, life and death.
Her artistic installations are characterized by being composed of repetitions of everyday objects that are distributed through space, decontextualizing the object, resignifying it and allowing an infinity of readings. Irantzu Lekue was in charge of closing the Energy Waves program of the European Cultural Capital DSS2016 with the urban art installation “Aztarnak”. She made a huge fingerprint consisting of 10,000 glass bottles. Each bottle contained a message from citizens who wanted to participate in the work with desires for culture and art.
Opening: Wednesday 9 of October 2019, at 19.30
Duration: 9 – 31 October 2019
Free entrance to the public.
Sponsors: ArtGia, Oecon, Conexiones Improbables
The aim of the Gallery is to show Greek and foreign, established and new artists, creating with them a long-term relationship of co-operation. The selection of the artists is based on the quality of their works and their creativity, demonstrating the astonishing diversity and versatility of various mediums, technics and styles. All the participants in solo or group exhibitions are well-known. Some of them are award-winning, sought after workshop instructors or revered for their understanding of the medium they use with articles published in prestigious art books and magazines.
New trends and classic waves of all forms of Art find a roof at the Govedarou Art Gallery which is equipped with the most modern audiovisual means of projection and lighting and can support exhibitions and events of cultural interest.
In addition, at the Gallery’s art shop you can find a wide range of artworks which is constantly renewed with artists from around the world.
The fantastic world of the famous Greek painter Spiros Gelekas from the island of Corfu with his super-realistic color palette meets, for the first time in Greece, the fantastic "universe" of the great J.R.R. Tolkien, writer of Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and Silmarilion. Spiros adores the world of fantasy, thus the world of Salvador Dali, Roger Dean and J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien's world are the subject of his painting from 2016 and on. The year 2018 brought him the worldwide recognition he needed and his works were exhibited next to Salvador's Dali and Picasso in Asia. He entered in the list of the best 100 painters in the international competition "The Global Art Awards", and was selected to be included in the encyclopedia of "Global Art freaks" in 2019.
The exhibition is deticated to J.R.R. Tolkien and the Middle Earth and will be exhibited on September in Thessaloniki at Govedarou Art Gallery and on October in Athens at the festival ofFantastiCon.
Under the auspices of The Greek Tolkien Society – The Prancing Pony.
The exhibition will accompany with their music Lady Delwynne and George Palousis
