EX-PLORATIONS. ENA CONTEMPORARY/KAPLANON GALLERIES. ATHENS
ENA KAPLANON GALLERIES EX-PLORATIONS I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people’s consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman. Alan Moore The artist Alexandra Marati strives to explore ‘wildernesses of unknown dimensions, often affected by extreme weather conditions in spiritual flux’. Using sprays and acrylics for the sandy or sticky veneer they provide, she creates ‘multiple levels of shifting sand that are both transient and permanent. Her work is a visual-spatial repository depicting aura-tinted flying objects, spectral forms or geometric shapes. Here and there, sudden voi