EMILIA TSEKOURA
FOUGARO welcomes to BLUE2 the solo exhibition “homeland landscapes” of Emilia Tsekoura, one of the most important visual artists of her generation.
The works are described by herself as “stories of isolation in the time of coronavirus”. They are testimonies from her personal experience of the recent lockdown, when she was called upon to deal with being cut off from daily life. Her life and her schedule were disrupted suddenly and totally, as with all of us, and this disruption was experienced in a setting of fear, uncertainty and gloom.
How does a creative mind deal with all this? This new series in the work of Emilia Tsekoura is a tour around a highly personal universe via works that look like screenshots of “dream sharing”. As she says, “while at home I travel through reflections, luminous painterly rays, unexpected tricks of the sun. Like a moving toy, these stories create an alternative universe within which I use digital techniques to make compositions, motifs, avatars—a virtual world of my own”.
The artist shares with us the stops along a daily route of her imagination, as she takes the familiar sights of her home and elevates them into cosmic ecosystems in which every detail plays a key role. The protagonist in all the works is, of course, light as it is momentarily captured and then re-released as an accelerator of this elevation.
EMILIA TSEKOURA
homeland landscapes
FOUGARO BLUE2
Wednesday to Sunday, after 12 noon
curators
Florica P. Kyriacopoulos
Antonis J. Kontroyiannis
Emilia Tsekoura
Born in Athens, Emilia Tsekoura studied at the Art Communication & Learning team in Athens (1978-80), at the Boston Museum’s School of Fine Arts (1980-84) and at the same time at Tufts University, graduating with a Bachelor in Arts & Sciences.
Between 1988 and 2013, Emilia taught at the Athens College using differentiation teaching, art therapy and the method of Harvard University’s Project Zero (TFU, Visual Thinking). To this day she has had several solo shows in Greece and the US and has participated in numerous group exhibitions.
She is motivated by concepts originating from her own nature and expressed in autobiographical and expressionist ways: woman, Goddess/Idol, birth, genesis, the ovoid, rebirth. The philosophy of constant change in life, nature and art is always the key principle behind her every work.
One element in her art is symbolism and the translation of icons into archetypes. The egg, the sphere, the round, the zero or “nothing” and their reflections, the heart, the spiral, the geometries of nature and many other familiar symbols and concepts appear in various guises, media and materials throughout her artistic course.
She works in Athens and teaches at the art workshops of Fougaro in Nafplio since 2013.
