Spatial Design - Indoors/ Outdoors Design

Ceramic pictures with marine subject - from ancient-Greeks life.
Lightings, table and floor/columns.
Sculptures, thrones and horses.
Worked with special color, these works of art often recall stone, wood or metal at their weaving. The ceramist enriches his creations with other materials like metal and plexi-glass. The clay which has been used is gress fired at 1200oC
His interest turns to the primitive way of firing with salt which is the main characteristic of his last creations. These works have been fired in a reduction atmosphere in a hand-made kiln with timber. The pieces are stoved with oxides of salts, placed directly on them or throughother materials, like clothes,etc.

Braising with salt
 
Handmade saggar for wood with flipped chemney for the braising with the salt.
       
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Art  realizes the variations of the soul and releases us from the personal isolation. It is the sensitive seismograph of ideas and sensations of the place and the time art is born". Nikos Alexiou

In the art room "Alexandros Gardelis", Christos Tsimbourlas presented his personal exhibition under the title " Time-Mythological".
Boats, thrones, warriors and horses in a journey through time.

The artist-creator of today is the resultant of many things: his country, his birth, of civilization, of knowledge, of his character.Furthermore, he is the one who generates soul to the form, sees beyond the landscape, communicates with the forces of the past that created the present, he creates in the present but aims to the future.

Christos Tsimbourlas is exactly this creator. Let's follow him to his journey through the mythological space.
Boats, thrones, warriors and more in a journey through time. The descent of the Dories-a powerful work of art: The Dories who traveled  south to find a new home country. The warriors do not have features of war: they portray Greek forms, ancient idols, symbols that have always been an inspiration for the sensitive and strong artists.

In his work there are connotations of all those things that pass away and he wants to maintain them in any way.

The main characteristic of this exhibition is the clarity, the honesty, the strength  of the size and the form, his skill to elaborate clay with fire, the luck of cheap impressionism. His works are memories of the "oreon" (aesthetically beautiful)  in its simplicity. Memories that have a substance through time.

Moreover,  this clearly sculptural work shows Christos Tsimbourlas' character, his disciplined creativity, the perpetual training and his constant questioning on size, form, space, expression concerning art. All this effort, all this thought  to reveal the discipline and the battle needed in order to transform the inanimate material to a living form. A form in motion: the substance of intellectual creativity.

Let this trivial review be my humble offer to the work of my dear colleague  Christos Tsimbourlas.

Among the purposes of art is to initiate a secret dialogue with art, in order to pass to the world of nostalgia and rebellion. This is a gift that the creator of this exhibition possesses. 

Rena Anousi-Ilia

Encarver-Painter
Secretary of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts

A review published
at the Magazine of the PanHellenic Association of Ceramists