The city as a theatre stage, as its ghosts reconstruct it. Familiar ghosts. Characters of the deep night. Dreams in flight, influenced by the suffocation of everyday life. Heroes in crazy costumes escaping the acceptance of everyday life. They cross the imaginary as loneliness crosses the square. And love expresses itself with frost. The silence is intensified by the soundtrack. The rhythm is the chain of the city’s crackles. Suffering colors. Sadness. Mourning and sarcasm emerge from the abyss and define the characters. Survival in the face of crush, dream in the reconstitution of reality. There are no hypocrites here. Paper heroes are transformed into truths. In dreams you can’t hide. The troupe cannot and will not hide that silence and solitude do not only complement each other, but above all that they interweave between fact and the immaterial record. Poetic symbolism and ellipticity sculpt the cry with nods.
BY Christophoros Katsadiotis (GR)
He was born in 1971 and studied at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has held eleven solo exhibitions and participated in many international group exhibitions, and has been awarded three times for his printmaking work. Among the most important solo exhibitions, the exhibitions at the Duszniki Zdrój Paper Museum in Poland (2012) and at the Brut Art Museum, Halle Saint Pierre, Paris (2015), entitled "The Revenge of the Red Riding Hood", stand out. His last exhibition, in Athens, took place in January 2022, at Zoumboulakis Gallery. His engravings have been used in books published by Gutenberg, Diatton, Polytropon, etc. Since 2013 he has been living in Paris and writing articles in the Greek press about the visual arts there. In 2015, the Eurydice, Zéro and Théâtre du Cristal theatres in Paris used his engravings for the projection of their performances. He is a member of the Union of Printmakers and the Hellenic Chamber of Fine Arts.
