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Emi Avora

http://www.emiavora.com
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biography

Emi Avora was featured in Contemporary Art Society's ARTfutures 2005 and 2004.

 

statement

Starting with images from property leaflets, glossy magazines, resort advertisements as well as sketches from direct observation, I try to create paintings of places that provide a space for dreaming. Initially interested in highly decorated, expensive public interiors that describe a particular lifestyle, I am conveying a psychological space that hovers between the real and the fictional. Therefore, I am not aiming at a representation of a certain place rather than an indication of a one that acts as an entrance beyond it. This allows invention and distortion to take place.

The paintings are usually built up by a number of painting layers, allowing the viewer to visually walk in and out of them. The marks that shape up the images look as if they are drawn rather than painted, creating a somehow unfocused visual journey through the picture. Light is of great significance in the work as it often acts as a way in or an exit point out of that journey. Colours are very particular, describing beauty that borders with decadence, grandeur that verges into repulsion.

By an intersection of the everyday and the theatrical, I try to position the viewer into places of wonder and sometimes anxiety. I aspire to find hidden, otherworldy beauty through using the familiar.

- Emi Avora 2009

 

related links

http://www.gvdgallery.com

http://www.theapartment.gr/avoraselectwrk.htm

http://www.truebenbach-galerie.de

 

exhibitions

  • ARTfutures 2005

    23rd November — 27th November 2005
    Bloomberg Space 50 Finsbury Square London EC2A 1HD

  • ARTfutures 2004

    31st March — 4th April 2004
    City of London School Queen Victoria Street, London EC4
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