post-title Yannis Markantonakis | CARGO ROUGE | Galerie Born Berlin | 13.01.-25.02.2017

Yannis Markantonakis | CARGO ROUGE | Galerie Born Berlin | 13.01.-25.02.2017

Yannis Markantonakis | CARGO ROUGE | Galerie Born Berlin | 13.01.-25.02.2017

Yannis Markantonakis | CARGO ROUGE | Galerie Born Berlin | 13.01.-25.02.2017

until 25.02. | #1005ARTatBerlin | Galerie Born Berlin presents from 13th January 2017 the exhibition “CARGO ROUGE” by the painter Yannis Markantonakis.

The first exhibition of 2017 in the Galerie Born Berlin is showing the work of the painter Yannis Markatonakis, who  resides in Paris but was born in Chania/Crete in 1955. He  studied Chemistry in London, then went to sea for a few years, before  going to Paris in 1985 to study painting. The work selected by the Galerie all appear at first glance to be Maritime images. However, they are more than that. In a wider sense, they are  Still Lifes. Painted on wood, each a found object, that was washed up in the big city of Paris. All the work is framed and by the art of the framing they are made into objects, and while almost all the frames are of glass, Markantonakis has managed to give each work a greater depth and mystery. The pictures radiate an endless peace, but within this peace paradoxically lies something threatening. Then if one once again considers the ships as just ships, it is unclear whether their journey  will ever end, whether they will ever reach a harbour, or in the case of other paintings, whether the ships will ever leave the harbour in which they are berthed, And it is these circumstances that put us back into our present time, that often enough  is determined through such balancing. Whoever has had the opportunity to visit Yannis Markatonakis in his domicil , where  he lives in a large apartment on the corner of the 13th Arrondissment, will find a view of three separate Paris street canyons seen through Bulleye windows from the 12 square meters that serves as his studio, revealing the other subject matter of his paintings – the view from his ship’s cabin upon the city.

Vernissage: Thursday, 12th January 2017, 6 to 9 p.m.

Exhibtion period: Friday, 13th January to Saturday, 25th February 2017

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Image caption: via Galerie Born Berlin, Yannis Markantonakis

Exhibition Yannis Markantonakis – Galerie Born Berlin – Kunst in Berlin ART at Berlin

 

 

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