The Hellenic Cultural Foundation branch in Berlin will be formally inaugurating a new exhibition entitled “No return” by Vangelis Tzermias on February 2, at 20:00.
Tzermias’ works give the traditional seascape genre a new jolt, which is characterized by expressionist tendencies. His ships sail on a quiet, yet more often hostile sea. Although some characters are visible on the sails, men are not the main focus of the artist’s work. The blue of the sea, the voyage of the ships, which toss back and forth, and the struggle of the masts against the wind serve as allegories and poesy in the paintings of Vangelis Tzermias.
“By clicking on memory, I reconstruct and explore anew the values of painting. The ones I can find nowhere else but in the unknown; there, where art shows me a new way of life” said Mr. Tzermias.
“The questions remain the same as always, unchanged in time and many times without answers. What is art? Is it the simplicity of the Parthenon, an abstract work of Rothko, a landscape of Turner, a human figure of Freud or a Duchamp’s urinal flush?” wonders the artist.
Vangelis Tzermias was born in 1960 in Crete. He graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence in 1980 and continued his studies in painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts – ASFA (1980-1985) with Dimitris Mytaras and Ilias Dekoulakos. He has already presented 15 personal exhibitions and many joint ones. He currently lives and works at Markopoulos, Athens.
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