In the cafe space of the National Archaeological Museum, from October 12 to November 8, 2024, Anastasios Babatzias’ solo exhibition entitled “Raches/ backbones”will be hosted.
It is difficult to talk about Anastasios Babatzias’ painting art without touching upon, intentionally or unintentionally, the domain of Dialectics. Indeed, the richness of the visual world he builds and the subsequent pleasure it generates intermingle with each other via a process of integration, interaction and courtship of seemingly opposite forces, which are somehow orchestrated in a personal way by the artist and elevated into works of high poetic power and emotional charge.
The emphasis here is on the emotion itself, as opposed to the emotional charge, since the fullness of the aesthetic experience resulting from the contact with Babatzias’ work lies far apart from mere sentimentality or cheap sensationalism, having the power to occupy the mind and the senses, leading the viewer in new ways into the inner self as well as beyond it. To return to the dualism of Tassos’ visual world, if the viewer lets himself or herself explore the land of shapes, colors and textures of his works, it is impossible not to be fascinated and at the same time shaken by the eternal struggle of the physical with the spiritual, the material with the transcendent, the primordial with the modern, the Dionysian with the Apollonian, the myth with reality.
You feel growing before you, vibrating, the artist’s anxiety to organize and tame Chaos, shaping something new, something self-existent, with a life of its own. The initiate to this pictorial universe comes to realize that tension and contemplation, passion and reverie, storm and calm are inextricably linked and all together constitute not only an unbreakable visual body, but also a reflection of the totality of human experience. At the same time, Tassos’ painting traces, on his search for the poetic image, set up an exciting creative mark and an affirmative act of giving meaning to existence. (Kostas Papavlasopoulos, visual artist).

Entrance to the Cafe is free.

Exhibition opening: Saturday, October 12, 17:00 – 20:00
Exhibition duration: October 12 –November 8, 2024
Exhibition opening hours: Monday to Sunday: 8:00 – 19:00
Tuesday: 13:00 – 19:00
Organization – Editing: Emilia Kougia, tel. 6944417606
Address: National Archaeological Museum, 44, 28th October (Patesion) St., Athens 10682
Information: www.namuseum.gr