The work of Ilias Christopoulos, Haroula Koropouli, Iosifina Kosma, Angeiiki Papadopoulou, Angeliki Politi, and Giorgos Vavatsis has been shown in numerous exhibitions in Greece but also in Great Britain, Spain, Turkey, Korea, China and other countries but only once before in France.The six ceramicists have been specially selected because of the distinctive and recognizable personality of their work. All together they represent the originality and variety of styles and approaches that co-exist in contemporary Greek ceramics.
What they do have in common is, however, and age-old respect for the potter’s wheel, modelling by hand, the fundamental nature and centrality of clay as a material, and a love of Greek nature, its mountains, earth, sea and sunlight which in all cases inspire the forms, colors and textures of their works. Through these forms, textures and colors they posit a natural and still vital connection with the ancient past, working in the same land and light as their distant ancestors of classical and pre-historic times.
For the Villerville exhibition Chris Boïcos Fine Arts is introducing a special commission from Ilias Christopoulos:
The Athens and Paxos bathroom sets.
The objective of these two hand-made ceramic bathroom sets was to infuse the banal and manufactured objects that surround us in this most intimate of domestic environments – the bathroom – with some of the grace and functional simplicity that is generally reserved for more noble household objects like vases or tableware.
