Hello, and welcome to Our Newsletter Issue #7!
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Today we will be looking at the painting 'Current History', from my Finding Closeness series.
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Current History, 2020
Oil and phototransfer on canvas
190.50 x 102 cm
Signed on back
This painting is available to collect, email info@ariettachandris.com to enquire about it
'Current History'; an oxymoron of a title, but in a way it makes a lot of sense. This is a painting that came to fruition last summer, and with the help of my family and friends. Perhaps some of you can spot yourselves in the photo transferred border?
In a loose sense I wanted this painting to resemble a tapestry. This endeavour was vaguely inspired by the myth of Arachne, which I became familiarised with a few years ago and it has been embedded in my mind ever since. This was the first painting I created following the first lockdown of 2020, after several months of not creating anything because I'm not great at working from home. 'Current History' is a culmination of all those months at home: the weird aspect of trying to navigate a reality where we couldn't actually do much at all, so many walks, really beautiful sunny days (the world was taunting us), a lot of time spent on zoom and houseparty calls (is the houseparty app even a thing anymore?), even more time obsessively reading the news, because listening to it is a bit much, and finally a secret kind of gratitude for the excuse to be a bit of a hermit. It was current life, but also history in the making.
Fun fact: In the expansive green background I've used a lot of one of my favourite oil paints - Michael Harding's Genuine Naples Yellow Light, which is handmade using techniques dating back to the Old Masters. It's a rather pricey paint, with a 60ml tube costing between £57.24-£71.56 depending on where you get it. (Not as expensive as Lapis Lazuli, but not too far off either). Worth every penny though, I can't imagine my palette without it.
'Current History' as it could look situated on a wall.
This painting is available to collect, email info@ariettachandris.com to enquire about it
This painting was featured on a two-page spread in the September 2020 Print Issue 162 of the magazine BHMAgazino in Athens, Greece. I am so grateful to curator Maria Migadi of Martix Art for organising this. It was blissful, as at the same time I had my two other pieces 'We read & read but what do we actually take in?' and 'Love on a Night Train pt. 2' on view at Domatio Gallery also in Athens! Life works itself out so nicely sometimes, don't you agree?
I hope you have a wonderful weekend.
Lots of love,
Arietta xx