Paintings 1991- The Wall

LARGE SCALE PAINTINGS

HECTOR KAKNAVATOS (from the catalog of the exhibition “Antigoni Kavvatha – Paintings”, 1991,  translated by MARTIN MACKENZIE)
“…That is, to the fact that the plastic mass yields to the violence of gravity, and that the light slips in like Iagos, drawing color from the carved relief of an improbable intercourse between plastic and gravity, which flows via successive fractals into a chaotic portrait of the unforeseen. A challenge also to our boldness and out ability to endure A.K.’s aggressive prodding to abandon order to its destiny…”

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The Wall XIII, 1989, 1.60×1.30m, 62.99×51.18in, acrylics on canvas

The Wall XIV, 1990, 1.60×1.30m, 62.99×51.18in, acrylics on canvas

The Wall XIV, 1990, detail

The Wall VI, 1985, 1.60×1.30m, 62.99×51.18in, acrylics on canvas

The Wall XII, 1988, 1.00×0.90m, 39.37×35.43in, acrylics on canvas

The Wall VIII, 1986, 1.60×1.30m, 62.99×51.18in, acrylics and papers on canvas

The Wall VII, 1985, 1.54×1.21m, 60.63×47.63in, acrylics on canvas

The Wall VI, 1985, 1.54×1.21m, 60.63×47.63in, acrylics and papers on canvas

Landscape, 1990, 0.50×1.00m, 19.68×39.37in, acrylics on canvas