Love is the dominant primary life force that calls man in relation to man, the world and God. He is mobilized through these links to be opened, to offer, so to evolve at all levels of existence: the physical, the mental and the spiritual. The eros shelters are the places where love happens, where man engages and is engaged intimately. Places of meeting, intercourse and meditation. But also places most of all of art, techne and painting. Because painting itself when it happens is also a refuge of love. The projects presented in this section are paintings created in different periods, but inspired by a common libido. The scenery is nothing more than the representation of the gaze, a love affair. Beneath the fruit filled trees, in small villages, farmlands, love lit rooms, beaches, gardens, cafes and pathways, love is initiated uniquely through painterly means and is expressed singularly in each meeting place
July 22-16, 2016
Christos Kechagioglou
Meeting with Papaloukas on Mount Athos, 2016, 70x70cm, acrylic on canvas
Christos Kechagioglou
Sunbed, 2016, 80x80 cm., Acrylic on canvas
Christos Kechagioglou
With myself in the yard, 2016, 80x80 cm., Acrylic on canvas
Christos Kechagioglou
White umbrella - thoughts, 2016, 30x60 cm., Acrylic on canvas
Christos Kechagioglou
Village of prickly pear, 2016, 100x100 cm., Acrylic on canvas
Christos Kechagioglou
Realities and Inland (text excerpt by Athena Schina)
Christos Kechagioglou maps his own artistic world, in which one is encouraged by the boundless innocence of the childish look and an expert paradox, which leads to nostalgia and riddles, for the past and the future, for the indicated and the accessories. and the constantly revealed. A journey from the heartland of a personal memory, to the artistic surface of the painter. Internal luminosity, vitality and turgor pressure in always unprecendented formations. This limitless perception, through which Chr. Kehagioglou forms his poetic dynamic imagery-transforms the distant event into a nearby one and familiar into unfamiliar.
He was born in Thessaloniki in 1960. He studied civil engineering in Thessaloniki, while attending painting classes with Nikos Sachinis, then studied film directing in Athens and finally did a postgraduate study of art philosophy at the Sorbonne University in Paris, studying film relations and cinema.
He has directed dozens of films and video works that were played at the Thessaloniki Film Festival and other important festivals in Europe, as well as in museums and art galleries. He has presented, in Greece and abroad, in 41 individual and in over a hundred group exhibitions, his painting.