Apostolos Karakatsanis black and white artworks / “flat drop fall flat”

Apostolos Karakatsanis’ black and white artworks, that are on show in his solo exhibition with the intriguing and playful title “flat drop fall flat”, show that with all intents and purposes the artist essentially plays with this enormous path and can follow it and create without the use of color.

By Efi Michalarou

Precisely Apostolos Karakatsanis, by limiting the use of color in of white and black, which on the one hand may look like a restriction and on the other to be liberation, Apostolos Karakatsanis has the freedom to travel on a personal path, rigorous and minimalistic, on the red thin line between looks like and is. In this body of works Apostolos Karakatsanis creates new optical illusions, which while is touching op art, as his work progresses and develops in space, the viewer determines that it’s just nearby. As the artist says “My work explores issues of image construction

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In 1961 Dinos Lymperopoulos set up Costal Gallery on Patision and Polytechniou str. and this signaled the onset and the success of the gallery Ikastikos Kiklos together with Theofanis Siantis in 1982. Their partnership lasted 34 years at the end of which period Ikastikos Kiklos as Lymperopoulos-Siantis closed down. At Ikastikos Kiklos Lymperopoulos as well as the artworks included in the site, a collection of artworks,  there are silkscreens and items of the old historical collection of the artists Paniaras, Malamos, Prekas, Samios, Kokkinidis and others, also available. The latter collection is displayed at our exhibition halls and are on sale at low prices, always in keeping with their high quality.