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REINER LANGER, a visual artist
Reiner Langer is a multitalented, remarkable and worldwide renowned German artist who, with his presence, honors Thessaloniki, the capital city of Northern Greece. I met him during his exhibition at Govedarou Art Gallery on April 17th 2018. The subject of his solo show was: “Freedom and Angels”. Reiner Langer being famous but not arrogant at all, with his deep philosophical thought, unfolded the integrity of his work in front of our eyes. In this exhibition, his rather small scale artworks immediately attract the attention of the viewer. The viewer feeling like to be lost in the detail of the image, very ingeniously enters into the vision of a reality that captures the infinite circle of life and this vision is sealed effortlessly and naturally by the skillful hand of Reiner Langer. His symbols are coming out of a mental process and like heroes are taking their place in a fantastic reality that narrates the human existence and the cultures that he has created. As he explained to me, he has experienced the greatest ancient civilizations of the world, such as Roman, Greek, indigenous American, Egypt, Persian, Japanese, Celts, Vikings and others. All these cultures were lost through the lapse of time, but they were the reason and motivation for the modern man to follow their traces and continue his journey into the modern reality.
In his works fish symbolizes that life on earth began in sea. His birds with flapping wings are always ready to fly towards freedom and mark with their presence the infinite circle of life, meaning that when something dies it gives new life to another existence. His artworks are the concoction of a surprising, deeply moving technique that refines the detail with multiple and dynamic sensitivity and his realistic brush-stokes lead to an unexpectedly modern and unusual result.
The tensions as reflections of correlation of writing, brush-strokes, color, and individual drawing create a subject that it is easily perceived by the viewer. The mixed media he uses in his artworks are coming from the accumulated experience, knowledge, and spiritual development of a sage man who has tasted and came into contact with the diversity of the modern way of life. That’s exactly what he narrates and predisposes us through his images; for the future destination of art which meets the past and steps towards the future.
Reiner Langer's awards in the global art market are multiple and remarkable. The number of solo and group exhibitions, workshops and installation projects he has participated is vast. Collectors and Museums around the world preserve his art-works as modern art’s portfolios of value. I want to express my gratitude and honor to meet him and write about his valuable, individual and wonderful work in a brief and concise introduction that can’t express the range of art he serves.
Magda Mystikou Karagianniotou
Art Writer
Journalist EDSTE ( Representative of the Association of Greek Writers and Journalists of Tourism Greece)
Participations until 31st March
2 Workshops
REINER LANGER
Mixed technic (COLLAGE)
Saturday 21 April 2018
ROLAND PALMAERTS
Watercolor (ACQUARELLA)
Saturday12 and Sunday 13 Μay 2018
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Govedarou Art Gallery welcomes in the site's Artshop Ksenia Yarovaya!! A talented painter from Russia who honors her countrywith her work. Through her paintings you can she her love for Greece. Realism as an art has gained a valuable asset with her works!!
Her paintings are for sure are a valuable acquisition with future value!!
About Nazik Aslanyan
In my paintings I want to explore the most important feature of the Universe. I am trying to reach its essence. It is in everything: In the Sun, in flowers or trees, in all details of our life. Understanding of it is mean to reach a real happiness... By directing a glance inside an artist searches for an internal world and opens a door towards the depths and the gist of life... "The Sun" is eternity that human beings strive for and by understanding its gist you feel as if you beat the time and live in eternity for a moment...
An interview of the owner of Govedarou Art Gallery and painter Natasa Govedarou was given to the journalist mrs Magda Mystikou during the solo photography exhibition of Alexandros Stefanatos.
Artistic Statement:
Giovanni Micico aspires to the realism of the souls through his figurative artworks. Just like William Shakespeare’s famous quote “The eyes are windows to your soul”, Micico wants his works to be “the eyes”.
The stories of his work are about the transcendental moments that manifest and reveal the beauty and the poetry of the Creation that continues in our human life. With this story in his mind and heart, he brushes on a canvas gradually approaching to the concrete scene.
Sometimes Micico’s works have a reference to a painting in the past on the same topic, for example, his “Return of the Prodigal Son”. Rembrandt created an unforgettable image on the same subject. Rembrandt almost sculpted out the emotions of the characters in the painting. Having inevitable comparison to the Rembrandt’s, Micico looked for a contemporary representation which is personal to him. He felt confined by having a fixed-theme though, it narrowed down to the essence he searched to represent; the state of a soul of the son. Micico believes that the originality is a key for narrative paintings which were already represented in the past, contrary to the idea which is often held by people; a repetition of the past.
Working from life is essential for Micico’s work. He believes the most sincere expression starts from our perception and conception even in the form of realism. That way the realism also gives us a space for our spiritual, emotional, and psychological realms of being. We are inspired by seeing and we interpret reality by seeing it well. Together with our inventions and abstractions Micico aspires to represent and and offer those in his works.
Micico draws influences from many masters of the past and the present including the compositional splendor of Raphael, Titian, and Caravaggio, and the profoundness and atmosphere in portraits by Velazquez and Rembrandt, Plein-air of Sorolla, Levitan, Zorn and Yimaukun. Musical and graphical elements of Hans Makart who inspired Micico on figurative compositions. At last, graphical layout of Hiroshige, the wood-block printmaker.
Famous painter Gethsemane at Govedarou Art Gallery Gift shop!!
Jewllery and small paintings are now available for sale in our gallery shop! Best prices for famous artists artwork.
The writer Nota Kimothoi is presenting her book "The letter Λ of the words and speech"
Mr Alekos Dafnomilis (President of the writers of Northern Greece and Vice President of the Center for Culture and Books of southeast Europe) is going to present the book together with mrs Katerina Giannakopoulou (journalist, writer, researcher). Discussion with the writer is going to follow.