A trace of matter in the process of evaporation connects the works of the artist Giorgos Louloudis in his new solo exhibition at the Genesis Gallery (Charitos 35, Kolonaki). This is a new set of workings of the awakening force that comes from the core of the consciousness vortex. The meaning of the works is almost a hallucinatory edge, where the forms of buildings or even human figures, outlines and strokes, thickening and thinning, become thinner in a whirlwind of illusions.

George Louloudis was born in South Africa but moved to Greece permanently at a young age. He is an artist with his silences and pauses, he seems to be looking for the form of matter in the continuum of the constant movement of things. He exhibited again (2019) at Genesis by Giorgos Tzaneris, and there he already directly and promisingly showed how much he suffers from form, idea, color, layers and mixtures of materials.

In the new exhibition, the works of Giorgos Louloudis have a touching sanctity. She reveals them as deep workings, deposits of the process of stratification and reattachment. Perhaps this dimension, challenge and cancellation of matter, as a fundamental and inevitable condition, partly determine his artistic profile. Giorgos Louloudis thrives on the borderline between abstraction and representation, but his painting seems to be quite independent of these modes of reading. It is more like a persistent exploration with an opposing approach to immaterial matter and the material imprint of the spirit. The world is on the edge.

In his very interesting approach to the painting of Giorgos Louloudis, the art historian Konstantinos Spyropoulos writes in the catalog that “through the panoptical visualization of buildings and their foundations, he presents their skeleton, which resembles enlarged tissues and fibers of the human body”. This applies, among other things, to what it is mixed with: acrylic putty, primer, cement dust, gauze. “Combining them with a thick paste results in a rough surface with strong materiality and texture.”

Yorgos Luludis created his own recognizable world, flesh and air, clear and promising, personal and universal.

Aesthetically pleasing world with the certainty of imminent upheaval.

The exhibition will run until March 11 (Genesis Gallery, Kharitos 35, Kolonaki).