The new solo exhibition of Stavros Kotsireas entitled “Silent Nature” was inaugurated Thursday, March 8, at the Hellenic Foundation of Culture in Berlin. The exhibition will be open to the public until April 20.
Kotsireas’ works of art are “elaborate constructions and paintings that relate to the artist’s physical and human environment, senses, objects, nature and memories” as commented the curator of the exhibition, Eleni Markopoulioti.
The director of the Foundation, Dr. Eleftherios Economou, said that the exhibition offers a unique opportunity to showcase a different picture of Greece to the German public than the one usually painted by the media.
Mr. Kotsiras told Greek news agency ANA-MPA that he prefers defining his artworks as “silent” rather than “dead” nature. “It does not suit my personality” said Mr. Kotsiras, adding that objects may be soulless but the process of creation puts life back into them. Moreover, the artist elaborated on natura morta and commented that creations always emerge in silence, just like the viewer stands in silence before a creation.
Twenty years after his graduation from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Hague, Stavros Kotsireas, who was lucky to have Vasilis Fotopoulos as a mentor, feels the need to experiment in his art, branching out beyond his usual style of environmental and landscape paintings.
Although Stavros Kotsireas was raised in Australia and currently lives in Britain, he admits that Greece has always been for him an endless source of inspiration. While he was working on landscapes he tried to illustrate his experiences from his own journey, his own landscape. The olive tree and cypress are some of the most characteristic examples of his inspiration drawn from Mani, where his family originates from.
Works of Stavros Kotsireas are being exhibited in different public and private collections in Australia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, South Korea, Holland etc. To date, Kotsireas has presented his work in more than 25 solo and 50 joint exhibitions around the world.
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