A joint exhibition of Mice Jankulovski and George Xenos is on display at the Lola Nikolaou Gallery in Thessaloniki
The "Lola Nikolaou" Gallery in Thessaloniki is the space where the exhibition "Co + existence, with + feeling" by Mice Jankulovski and George Xenos is set.
The penetrating eye of the gallery owner Lola Nicolaou managed to see the dialogue that was secretly developing between the artistic achievements of the two artists, and the result was presented at an exhibition that opened on November 11 and will last until December 9, 2021.
It is about a joint representation, coexistence, dialogue and complementarity of the two painters, who come from different aesthetic traditions, but merge into a common aesthetics.
A note on the joint presentation of the artists was compiled by the Greek professor Manos Stefanidis, who is the curator of the exhibition.
- Mice Jankulovski unfolds and exposes his thick, black canvases that balance between heroism and elegy, existential drama and the revival of inner chaos, mourning the joy to which human beings have no right, but the right to submit, in resistance. Black, more precisely black-gray, as symbols of absence and a sense of ontological erudition are his constant, expressive choice.
On the other hand, George Xenos exhibits a small selection from the opus of his latest work, which is characterized by the obsession with spontaneous, direct writing, a large gesture monumentally imprinted on paper, but which is also in search of minimalism as much as possible, and to which all suggest with the least shouting. Blackened tree trunks as primitive, hierarchical figures praying, prophesying with prayer prophesying the impending, known evils, and, of course, as symbolic sticks of nature that we constantly insult, pollute, and degrade. Man stands firm against the environment that conceived him and endowed him with unimaginable power!
The two creators with obvious affinities - the obsession with black and the sense of monumental theatricality, but also the emphasis on the painting act themselves have long attracted my attention for many reasons and another: because they defend the common Balkan heritage without fear or other psychosis, showing that - Art does not separate, but only unites by eliminating artificial borders and subversive rivalries - wrote Stefanidis.
(The text was published in "Cultural Press" No. 105, in the print edition of the newspaper "Free Press" on November 13-14, 2021)
