“The color of unbearable emotions”: Exhibition of Angeliki Xynos at the Athens Art Gallery

At the Athens Art Gallery, the third solo exhibition of paintings by Angeliki Xynos, titled: “The Color of Unbearable Emotions”.

The painter’s strong imagination and literary origins weave a compositional power and expressionistic writing that reveals the theme of the scenes of the world in her own original way through a series of 20 large and smaller scale oil works.

According to Flâneur Rustin, who also signs the text of the exhibition: “Uppers and stamens, Grocer, King Lear, A dusty chandelier, Curtain. The theme of Aggeliki Xynou is the scenes of the world. And its perspective is that of the outsider… We are dealing with an art of vision that converses inextricably with speech, with literature, with theater. Each work tells a dense story, A night with rain in a dead end…”

But the way of narration-illustration is far from imitating the real thing. The bold use of color, the ever-present-clear or invisible-grid, the asymmetries, the sfumato, the violation of perspective and proportions, lead the relationships within the aesthetic field to a separate world in terms of physical or represented objects.

Reality and its representation, whether it is a bookstore or a Chekhovian person, are projected drawn (sketched) on top of each other in a way that surprises and reveals.

Because Angeliki Xynou, more than obeying a serious aesthetic decree, asks to undermine the certainties of viewing by delivering things as they are delivered to us: in a trembling condition.

Works that are ultimately in the territory of the in-between: As if you don’t know if something goes as soon as it is formed or is about to disappear… It is in this territory that Angeliki Xynou tests the limits of her art.

An art which, close to the visible things it delivers to us, manages to show us things invisible, visceral and non-visual.”

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalog (Greek-English) with a text by Flâneur Rustin

Biographical data

Angeliki Xynou was born in 1975 in Athens. He studied painting and theater at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. This is her third solo exhibition

Exhibition duration: December 14, 2023 to January 13, 2024