ART-PRESENTATION: Vasso Gavaisse

Vasso Gavaisse creates geometric works from paper, she pastes on paper a metallic, colored film that reflects light and the surrounding space and which enhances the impression of movement, she bents her material creating a third dimension. The blank areas of her work are juxtaposed with the full and reveal structures by developing a mysticistic system, which draws its themes from the geometric analysis of the natural world and the apocryphal shapes of Platonic Ideas.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: AD Gallery Archive

Vasso Gavaisse in her new exhibition at AD Gallery in Athens presents her new work. Gavaisse’s art language is not a narrative one. It is this structural dimension of the work of art and of the universe that the artist seeks to capture by associating her regular polygons according to a predetermined logic and a highly detailed plan. Her works simultaneously address the senses causing an almost mystical feeling, similar to that caused by the observation of perfect forms and analogies in nature, which are often attributed to the implementation of a divine plan. This spirituality is enhanced by the use of surfaces with metallic shine, reminiscent of the use of gold in Byzantine art, a symbol of an absolute space bathed in divine light. Her work, however, does not lean towards pure conceptualism. Keeping in mind the principles of logic and geometric structure, Gavaisse lets herself be driven by the senses, matter and light that impose their own rythms and adjustments. She does not implement a predetermined plan as a mere formality. The work takes shape by taking into account the obstacles and requirements imposed by the material, the light and the composition’s center of gravity. She certainly follows predetermined webs, but she leaves free space to a form of natural structure and movement.

Info: AD Gallery, 3 Pallados Street, Athens, Duration: 20/4-11/6/16, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri 12:00-21:00, Sat: 12:00-16:00, http://adgallery.gr