Abstract compositions of mixed media on paper, paintings that boast a skilled approach to composition, and a beautiful mixing of pencil and paint; the graphite swirls in a sketch-like movement, as though the artist Yorgos Papageorgiou starts off with a quick vague idea of what he wants to portray, only for it to be cemented through the use of paint.
The compositions vary from grid-like breakdown of the support to more organic lines across it.
The 58-year-old Greek artist, who has been living in Cairo since 2010, had studied physics and material science, and previously worked as a researcher in France. He only started studying Fine Arts in 1994 at the Atelier Toma Roata in Brussels, Belgium, and his first exhibition was there in 1998. He then later moved to Beijing, China from 2005 to 2010.
Papageorgiou has been living in cities that are undergoing major transformations in their social and artistic expression, and it seems that his late blooming in the arts has greatly benefited from this. It is perhaps due to this mature approach to the arts that his work lacks a lot of the pretentiousness that can be seen in the younger, artistically trained contemporary artists. Artists, and viewers alike, will surely enjoy this exhibition.
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