homeland landscapes #2
Following the great success of the solo exhibition homeland landscapes of Emilia Tsekoura at BLUE2, FOUGARO welcomes homeland landscapes #2, a new show of works from the same series at SPACE9. Now in a different setting, the works have their spirituality measuring itself against a new relation to space and shedding light on a different dynamic among themselves.
The artist herself describes the works in this series 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.
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”.
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.
