Group show curated by Aristeidis Lappas
Looking with the Eyes of Love

“It’s only when we look with the eyes of love that we see what the painter sees.”
Henry Miller

The Breeder is pleased to present Looking with the Eyes of Love, a group exhibition curated by Aristeidis Lappas with works by Athens based artists: Claudio Coltorti, Lydia Delikoura, Iasonas Kampanis, Bety Krňanská, Kyvèli Zoi, Konstantinos Lianos, Ioanna Limniou, Lara Nasser, Alexandros Simopoulos, Stephani x Irini.

The exhibition sheds light on different aspects of the painting process, aspiring to introduce the viewers to the inner dialogs that artists experience when engaging in their practice. The works on show present the process of dialoguing with the paintings, which become the outcomes of those internal conversations.

Framed as the mental space where these conversations take place, the exhibition is seen as a room filled with energies constantly transforming, that shift in and out of recognizable images. Taking the form of memories, haunting thoughts, and intimate moments, they present each artist’s distillation of these sensations into pictorial subjects.

Consumed by their emotions, a painter must be able to understand and redirect their trajectories toward a place of equilibrium. Find their voice in them, feel comfortable with them, and thus learn to coexist.

These energies manifest themselves in everything an artist faces – their desires for belonging and affection, confrontations with history, as well as the challenge of giving form to that which does not yet have one. Asking these questions, the painter tries to find their own truth within the medium and in this act, materializes the essence of their own existence.

In this interchanging current of emotions, they find honesty towards a greater beauty, surfacing the pulse in the beating heart of creativity. This is the act of love in painting.

PARTICIPATING WORKS:

Claudio Coltorti
“Sunday”, you know who we are, 2023
oil on canvas,
60 x 50 cm.

Lydia Delikoura
Delicate Disposition, 2023
hedgehog spines, thread and watercolour on canvas
90 x 80 cm.

Iasonas Kampanis
Minos (Μίνως), 2021
oil on fabric mounted on wood
126,5 x 98,5 cm.

Iasonas Kampanis
Japanela (Τζαπανέλα), 2022
acrylic on wood
37 x 25 cm.

Bety Krňanská
Untitled, from the series Unexpected Encounters, 2023
dyes, patchwork, digital print, crochet doily, bee wax, pigments, cotton, canvas
50 x 40 cm.

Bety Krňanská
Untitled, from the series Unexpected Encounters, 2023
dyes, patchwork, digital print, bee wax, pigments, cotton, canvas
50 x 40 cm.

Kyvèli Zoi
Lofrage, 2023
oil and gold leaf on canvas
120 x 90 cm.

Kyvèli Zoi
Living on Edge, 2023
oil and gold leaf on canvas
120 x 90 cm.

Konstantinos Lianos
Viewpoint 1, 2023
oil paint and Indian ink on treated handmade paper
46 x 55 cm

Konstantinos Lianos
Viewpoint 2, 2023
oil paint and Indian ink on treated handmade paper
46 x 55 cm

Ioanna Limniou
Warm Embrace, 2023
oil on canvas
diptych
160 x 120 cm.

Lara Nasser
Skinny Legend, 2023
oil on linen
56 x 47 cm.

Lara Nasser
Mirage, 2023
oil on linen
56 x 47 cm.

Alexandros Simopoulos
Untitled (Love, sex, and the AI), 2023
acrylics, oil, and oil pastels on linen
120 x 100 cm.

Stephani x Irini
Vase 1, 2023
earthenware clay
30 x 25 cm.

Stephani x Irini
Vase 2, 2023
earthenware clay
50 x 27 cm.

Stephani x Irini
Rika, 2023
earthenware clay
35 x 10 cm.

Stephani x Irini
Rita, 2023
earthenware clay
35 x 10 cm.

Stephani x Irini
Riga, 2023
earthenware clay
35 x 10 cm.