Awake in desire
A visual immersion in eroticism, desire, contemplation and the multiplicity of female emotions through the works of the Sotiris Felios Collection
By The Sotiris Felios Collection
Curatorial concept: Dora Vasilakou
Blue Alexandra (2005-2006) by Giorgos RorrisThe Sotiris Felios Collection
Giorgos Rorris
Blue Alexandra
Through the penumbral mortality of the blue wall and the chthonic floor Alexandra emerges both divine and human, of a time past and present. Her body still unspoiled, casts behind it the shadow of the self.
Elizabeth Plessa
Untitled (2003) by Marilitsa VlachakiThe Sotiris Felios Collection
Marilitsa Vlachaki
Untitled
Marilitsa Vlachaki's hand touches and probes the archetypal creation. The one that includes nature and human being. All of a sudden, though, this recreation makes us meditate and, above all, transmits a soulful and spiritual kind of shiver.
Sotiris Dimitriou
Echo (2020) by Maria FilopoulouThe Sotiris Felios Collection
Maria Filopoulou
Echo
The liberation of the body, the physical immediacy, the relaxation and spontaneity that flood the beach, the serenity, the languid body on the soft sand or the hot peddles, the hedonism, the reverie, all these experiences and concepts are found in Filopoulou's work
C.Marinos
Maria Giannakaki
Jealousy
The erotic art in her work is not treated as a graceful process, but as a means of expressing a blind, instictive will. Her love encounters are rough and violent. Moaning ones, not accompanied with the harmonic lyre.
George Mylonas
Jealousy (2020) by Maria GiannakakiThe Sotiris Felios Collection
Jealousy, detail
Yannis Moralis
Erotic
Moralis is an artist dedicated to the human figure, particularly to the female one. His oeuvre is distinguished by the quality of its formulation, its erotic dimension, its poetic character and the veracity of its expression.
Chrysanthos Christou
Maria Hadjiandreou
Interior I
Hatziandreou's drawings hover between the illustration to an unwritten novel and a still life. They inhabit a delicate area where the fragile, precarious balances are free to express their beauty without fear. Like effortless and plausible visual poems.
Maria Maragkou
Nude (2010) by Thanassis MakrisThe Sotiris Felios Collection
Thanassis Makris
Nude
Everything is earthy, dense, this time on the female body, painting acts of great intensity take place, brush by brush, energy by energy, they form a whole, a whole that, self-sufficient, dynamic, spreads through space.
Zina Kaloudi
Io Angeli
Untitled
Female figures both robust and delicate, like giant dolls in front of a doll’s house that can no longer hold them, seated or standing, facing forward or slightly to the side, they live, apparently, in the natural environment they selected
Elizabeth Plessa
Stratigoula Giannicopoulou
SPRING ΙΙ
Expressive monuments of existence, they stand serious, austere, on rare occasions with a hint of a smile, while they’re presented as a mirror of their inner, most profound psyche.
Lina Tsikouta -Deimezi
Kalliopi Asargiotaki
Shades of Gold
Kalliopi Asargiotaki is a meticulous and sensual painter. Her works exude corporiality, emotions, a fine melancholy, attention to the details of the figure, a good care of plasticity and a finely wrought decoration.
Nikos G. Xydakis
Shades of Gold (2010) by Kalliopi AsargiotakiThe Sotiris Felios Collection
Shades of Gold, detail
Asargiotaki's dreamlike women, almost as if embroidered on the canvas, still maintain the character and the posture of femme fatale icons, as in autographs of another era, at times clearly reverberating Klimt's dome-like female volumes.
Elizabeth Plessa
Stefanos Daskalakis
Myrto in Striped Dress
Mostly women, always painted from life, everyday figures, sometimes tired, sometimes troubled, with a gaze that is clear but fixed, and never turned upon the viewer, always passing him by, always belonging in a different environment.
Irene Orati
Giorgos Rorris
Elissavet
Posing in almost claustrophobic rooms, Giorgos Rorris' portraits incorporate the dialectic relation between the inside and the outside world. The models' stillness enhances the dramatic element of the composition.
Katia Arfara
Artists: Io Angeli, Stefanos Daskalakis,Maria Filopoulou, Maria Giannakaki, Stratigoula Giannicopoulou, Maria Hadjiandreou, Yannis Moralis, Thanassis Makris, Giorgos Rorris, Marilitsa Vlachaki
Curatorial Concept: Dora Vasilakou
Texts: The authors
