OPENING: Thursday, May 17 2012, at 20:00
The Interval exhibition includes 70 works of art – painting, engravings and constructions – made in Greece from 1995 to 2011.
The constructions, compositions made of plywood crates, painted with tempera, oil and wax, are featured prominently throughout the exhibition. The artist has used this crate modification a number of times in the past, but only recently did he give it his full attention. Behind this approach lies the desire to change the perception of paintings , released from conventional form, as individual objects. The first experiments with this shape of the «base» were in 1991 with a series of monotypes.
The series of arched panels, made in the period 1995-96, and the works that followed, turned and hung in the shape of a diamond, are the first of such frames with a specific shape made with the intention to use them as a basis for painting.
The Monotypes of 2001-02, based on individual details of paintings, were the inspiration for the first large scale construction of assembled frames.
The exhibition presents a wide variety of engraving techniques that strike Walker as fertile ground for experimentation, an opportunity for diversion, the expansion of vocabulary, with deep patterns, optical illusions and repeated motifs, rather than as a tool for reproducing multiple copies.
As an artist, he was forced to adopt some rules and behavioral guides for the job. This exhibition is simply the revelation of secret deviations from these rules.
Paul Walker: Born in 1960 in Great Britain. He studied painting and engraving at the School of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham (1984 – 1987). He received a Master’s Degree from Chelsea School of Art, London (1987 – 1988). He has done many solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous group shows in Britain and Greece. He is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts since 1991 and lives and works in Greece.
For more information and art visit: www.paulwalker.gr
STORMY Kακουργιοδικείου 2 & Αθηνάς 17 / 1st floor/ metro: Monastiraki
tel.: 210 324 1145 / e-mail: stormy@otenet.gr
Part of the proceeds will be donated to MdM Greece www.mdmgreece.gr
