A Certain Blue of the Sea - July 3 - August 31, 2017

Antonia Papatzanaki, Tele -Visions 100-0485, Photograph - Archival print on canvas, 80X106cm

A CERTAIN BLUE OF THE SEA

A GROUP EXHIBITION UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE &SPORTS

at IONIAN PARLIAMENT of Corfu July 3 - August 31, 2017 Exhibition hours: Monday-Friday 10am-2pm OPENING RECEPTION: Friday 7/7/17 at 7:00pm

A certain Blue of the Sea is so Blue That only blood would be more red *

The history of art is inseparable from the history of color and in this history, blue has always been associated with vastness, ‘blue has no dimensions. It is beyond dimensions,’ as Yves Klein described. Ultramarine blue derives from lapis lazuli, a gemstone that for centuries could only be found in a single mountain range in Afghanistan. For hundreds of years, the cost of lapis lazuli rivaled even the price of gold.

Humans with reduced blue sensitivity have difficulty identifying differences between blue and yellow, violet and red and blue and green. To these humans our ecosphere appears as generally red, pink, black, white, grey and turquoise. Blue appears green and yellow appears violet or light grey for humans with tritanopia, namely, for those who lack blue cone cells. Visual perception is one of the most important mediums for our acquisition of knowledge and for our experience of our environment, of the physical world including our own bodies and others, while, color is one of the most dominant components of our perception. Nevertheless, the physical world and the world of objects do not contain color and aren’t colored as we experience them. Color isn’t a physical property of objects; thus, our blood is not red, the sea isn’t blue, the trees aren’t green…

The color appearance of an object can be changed by changing the color of light that shines on it and the color of visible light depends on its wavelength. White light is composed of all the colors of the rainbow, because it contains all wavelengths, and it is described as polychromatic

light. Color glows with the light of the radiant sun and creates a relentless spectacle of sheer visibility, of an intense luminosity that can even be blinding.

Drawing from our different perceptions of color, color vision deficiency and even “achromatopsia” (total color blindness), the 40 participating artists of the Group Exhibition will trace the different interpretations of the notion of color as sensation, visual and sensorial experience, psychological property of visual experiences, mental property, representation and construction of the brain.

40 Participating Artists Dimitris Zouroudis, Katerina Zacharopoulou, Antonis Tsakiris, Adonis Volanakis, Kostis Velonis, Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Danae Stratou, Aggelos Skourtis, Christina Sgouromiti, George Sampsonidis, Nana Sachini, Nikos Navridis, Marina Provatidou, Artemis Potamianou, Brigitte Polemis, Hara Piperidou, Aemilia Papaphilippou, Antonia Papatzanaki, Nikos Papadopoulos, Margarita Myrogianni, Maro Michalakakos, Leon Michail, Iliodora Margellos, Christos Kostoulas (Captain), Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos, Peggy Kliafa, Maria Katrantzi, Irini Karayannopoulou, Nikos Kanarelis, Sofia Housou, Aspassia Haronitaki, Cleopatra Haritou, Yioula Hadjigeorgiou, Kleio Gizeli, Maria Georgoula, Sandra Christou, Venia Bechraki, Rania Bellou, Euvgenia Apostolou, Lydia Andrioti.