Manolis Charos« exhibition »The floating time you see", which opens on Thursday 29 February 2024, will present works created during the period 2017-2024.
Manolis Charos writes: «Full moons, dusty moons, blood moons, rays of light, twilight and twilight, horizons. Seas that open up and open the mind as they remove the border of reality. Images that struggle to bind time. Isn't that what painting is? Floating time as you see it. [...] These works took a long time to realize.
But they were made, in the way that I had been striving for many years, to work on a picture freed from the limits of the canvas and the laws of the easel; with what I had managed to learn in painting, in printmaking and in all modern media.
The images became-existed, and slowly over time they acquired material substance.
While they took years to build, all the projects, they all want to appear in the moment.».
Manolis Charos - Short Biographical Note
Manolis Charos was born in Kythera in 1960. He grew up in Athens and in 1977 he went to Paris to the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1982 he obtained a Diploma with a grade of A with distinction and continued with a postgraduate degree at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, dealing with visual communication.
In 1984 he was awarded the «Prix des Fondations» by the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. To this day he spends part of his time in Paris, where he publishes and publicises almost all of his engraving work. Several of his prints are in the Cabinet des estampes of the National Library of France (BNF).
In 1991 he travelled to the USA, where Absolut vodka used his works for its advertising campaign. These works are in the Wine and Spirit Museum in Stockholm. In 1994 he represented Greece at the International Art Festival Cagne sur Mer in France. In 1998 he was awarded the Athens Academy Prize for an artist under 40 years old. In 2000-01 he was invited to Princeton University in the USA.
In 2011 he presented the «Myths of Aesop» and in 2019 the exhibition «Treasure Island» at the Benaki Museum.
Apart from Athens, he has had solo exhibitions in Thessaloniki, Paris, Bologna and London. His works can be found in major private collections in Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Italy, USA, as well as in public collections of museums in Greece and abroad. His works are also shown at auction houses in London (Bonham's, Sotheby's), Paris, etc.
He lives and works between Athens, Paris and Kythera.
Main subject photo: Manolis Charos, «The Sea», 140X200cm, Mixed Media @ Zoumboulakis Galleries
