Works from her series ”Wabi-Sabi Zen Art Stories”, will be on display starting Tuesday, July 12, at the gallery Follow your Art, in Kapsali, the painter Georgia Tseri.
In recent years, Georgia Tseri has been creating works inspired by Japanese culture. She has taken classes in butoh, martial arts, and, above all, Japanese calligraphy.
She creates her works on canvas, on silk, as well as on various types of handmade Japanese paper—either in its natural state or treated by the artist herself with wax or a variety of mixed media techniques—using Japanese brushes with ink as well as acrylics. In her works, we notice small-scale imprints reminiscent of Japanese seals.
The titles of the works in this exhibition are borrowed from poems by the great haiku poet Matsuo Bashō, thereby creating a sense of unity.
Drawing inspiration from ensō circles and grounded in the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi, she expresses in her works her love for the material, purity, imperfection, an awareness of the continuous flow of life, melancholy, and joy—all in balance. According to Eastern philosophy, wabi-sabi is the essence of things, and Zen art is an outward expression of one's inner state.
Opening: Tuesday, July 12, at 9:00 p.m.
Exhibition dates: July 12–July 23
FOLLOW YOUR ART: Kapsali, Kythera, tel: 6973639044 https://www.facebook.com/FollowYourArtgallery
