Grand opening for Gallery+Lab in Athens' Psirri district with a group painting exhibition Six young artists who have set up their works in the expo space so that they can "converse" one with the other, are the virgin hosts of the first exhibition of Gallery+Lab, a venue that we knew as a painting atelier in the Athenian district of Psirri but now it opens as an art gallery. In this group exhibition (March 17-April 15) we welcome artists Irene Gennadiou, Leda Alexopoulou, Alexandros Theocharatos, Aggelos Spartalis, Myrto Stamboulou and Stavroula Stavropoulou. Being a venue for art creation and promotion anyway, Gallery+Lab makes a turn and becomes a space that aims to mix diverse art activities and break the lines between atelier and gallery. Aesthetics, color and materials are often the common elements we see in the works of the artists, whereas the visual result makes their differences stand out. Irene Gennadiou deals with a painted collage of the same material with which she paints. She creates figures and abstract forms in organic movement that denies the two dimensions of the frame. Leda Dionyssia Alexopoulou has an almost mystical strictness and simplicity in her horizontal and vertical lines, shapes and figures, and is strongly influenced by semantics, clothes and motifs of the Far and Middle East. Angelos Spartalis is influenced by the school of the chromatic spectrum and geometrical abstraction; he expresses his personal quests with the use of two colors on pieces of wood that remind broken parts of a sunken boat or are given a strict shape and are glued one on the other. Myrto Stambopoulou uses materials like paper, pastel, glue, tar, wood, etc, to shape a powerfully experienced setting, through which human figures, tables, empty chairs and used coffee cups are placed. Alexandros Theocharatos turns the viewer's attention to issues of social awareness without sopping focusing on the visual arts. Characteristic is the figure of young Carlo Guliani, who drops dead by a police bullet during the manifestation in Genoa in 2000, as he paints him from the sideways, which underlines the fall of man who dies. Stavroula Stavropoulou paints the passage from absolute white or red to the absolute black with her figures balancing between life and death, the warmth of a hug and the emptiness of loneliness. HB Gallery+Lab Event Category Exhibition Dates 17/03/2005 - 19/03/2005 23/03/2005 - 26/03/2005 30/03/2005 - 02/04/2005 06/04/2005 - 09/04/2005 13/04/2005 - 15/04/2005 Time We-Sa: 12:00-20:00 Su-Tu: closed Where Gallery+Lab Athens Ticket Price admission free Phone Numbers Communication: +30-6934-034929