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ARIA KOMIANOU

Lives and works in Athens, Greece
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Aria Komianou is well known in the field of engraving in Greece and abroad. compressed, once again, in her last works that promise the continuation
Her works are indelibly engraved in our memories with determined lines, of her brilliant course. For Aria Komianou, the challenge of the material, the
clear-cut forms and a quality that distinguishes her art as a whole, whether wealth of collective artistic memory and personal choices act as a source for
her works are black and white or, in other cases, in a deep red that paints all the elements that lead to a truly inspiring creation, which, despite the a
and activates the surface, subverting its tranquility and alluding, in a unique priori obligations, do not prevent it from being sensitive and poetic. Regardless
way, to Stendhal’s The Red and the Black. Aria Komianou chooses wood as of the themes she chooses, whether they concern portraiture or trivia, still-
the mold and field where she applies her choices. It is a complex material and life, birds, hats, portraits and other everyday objects, these are turned into
she treats it with harshness and sensitivity. The first is a necessary technical highly aesthetic works of art through her touch. A combination of simplicity
element, whereas the latter comes inevitably from within. The combination and content which balances the descriptive and the abstract characterizes
of the two leads to a unique result that has endured for at least four decades her work. Either way, Aria Komianou is a true, original creator and an expert
with the same consistency and the same virtues. All these elements are in the art of wood-engraving.
Dr. Vivi Vassilopoulou

 COMPOSITION 350, 1997 WOODCUT 15X11 IN. /38X27 CM.

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