The artworks by Nicolas Bliatkas and Eirini Christoforidou are inspired by the Battle of Gallipoli, 100 years later. Nicolas Bliatkas with his work “No man’s Land”, narrates small, anonymous stories that speak about life and death, fate, lost voices and canceled hopes; he invokes a deeper communication through the solitude of the sea that stretches or a green meadow with poppies; he depicts a landscape of history, a landscape of anguished and inhuman absence, an “intermediate” place of uninterrupted and unearthly silence, a stationary space on verge of past-present. References to the emblematic poem “In Flanders Fields” by the Canadian John McCrae put emphasis on the intensity of emotional charging, the expressive strength and elegiac grief of his pictures. The poppy flower that was established in the collective consciousness as the most recognizable symbol of remembrance of World War I. dominates and in Eirini Christoforidou’s artworks. The grey and black color of death and loss, of rage and of dark, juxtaposed in red color of life and remembrance, of hope and continuity in pursuing of a dramatic score; at the same time, she presents with allusive and schematic way the pixels of a world in consternation and elation, like a volcano that erupts.
Yiannis Bolis Art Historian- Curator
