Thief, by Raphaela Simon at the Michael Werner Gallery, Athens.
I've been on the mailing list of this gallery for years, because I enquired about a ceramics exhibition that was on in New York. I've been on their mailing list since then. Recently they opened a branch in Athens, and this was my first visit. The gallery is on the first floor of this building in Kolonaki.
On one of the walls in the entrance hall are these wall sculptures by Alekos Fasianos. Wow! I wouldn't mind looking at those every time I left or came back to my living accomodation.
Fassianos is a Greek painter known for his distinctive style which is characterised by immediacy and a deliberate departure from standardised painting techniques.
We went up to the first floor to see Raphaela Simon's exhibition. Simon, a German artist, relies on intuition and feeling creating weorks that are personal. 'No image exists in the beginning. In my view, a painting does not start with a specific object, idea, form, content, memory or imagination. Sometimes I work closer to the 'form', sometimes closer to the 'content'. It is the state of tension between all these things that interests me'. Her paintings are both figurative and abstract, opposites that she feels are not mutually exclusive. 'I need both, they feed each other'.
Waterfall, 2025, (oil on canvas)
Thief, 2025, (oil on canvas)
Climber, 2025, (oil on canvas)
looking closer
Cocoon, 2024, (oil on canvas)
These were the works exhibited. We were then taken to the gallery's offices where we were shown two further works that were not in the catalogue.
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