“A night in Catalonia”, 12/06/2010 – 26/07/2010

On Saturday, June 12, Maria Demetriades, Medusa Art Gallery & J.C. Roca Sans, Artium Gallery, will open the solo exhibition of paintings by Miltos Michailidis, under the general title “A night in Catalonia”, at the Museu dela Mediterrania in Torroella de Μontgri near Barcelona, Spain.
The exhibition comprises thirty small colour drawings and a spatial installation. These works are inspired by the traditional Catholic processions in Spain on the day of the Crucifixion and the so-called “dance of death”. Starting from these images, Michailidis creates a parallel visual reality in which the traditions of Catholic faith and the figure of the Crucifix are mingled with those of the Orthodox creed in a tour with seemingly different starting points yet the same ending. The artist distorts religious motifs and images and presents to the viewer a world in which death remains inescapable but is at least more colourful and less frightening.
This show is in some ways a sequel to the exhibition “Spanish Dream”, which was shown at the Atrium Gallery of the same town in 2008.
Miltos Michailidis had his first solo exhibition, “The Women’s Photographer”, at the Medusa Art Gallery of Athens in 2007. He has presented his work in individual and group shows in Greece, Italy and Spain.