Eternal voyage. Artist Vangelis Rinas
“The artist is born to suffer from an incurable romantic. Matter how hard pressing reality, he always believed that his creativity and art can change the world.” Vangelis Rinas takes us on a journey. It is a tale of the great Greek spirit of romance and adventure. “Do not forget that we were born on the same land, like Ulysses, for travel and adventure, military leaders, soldiers and researchers at the same time.” Very much in the works depends on where the artist was born and raised.
“I grew up in nature, in the forest and the sea, and I think it is good for all, that the era of innocence, childhood, when we all experience clarity and order in our souls, gives the experience. All ancient images of the island where I was born and raised, pass through my life and reflected in the works. ”
Vangelis Rinas – Greek painter and sculptor born in 1966 on the island of Samos, Ikaria island grew. His first teacher in painting was Professor Vasilis Korkovelos. He graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts with a degree of MFA. Lives and works in Athens and New York. Since 1992, he held exhibitions in Greece and abroad, participating in international biennials.
In his works, there is a beautiful image of a woman (wife, as the muse of inspiration), boats (dreamy journey) and musical instruments (music – a symbol of universal art), where many elements are perfectly balanced, there is a harmony of light and color, history and modernity. The question of the eternal journey of man. Creating their own reality, his works like excerpts from dreams, metamorphosis or evolution from reality to dream. Given that Rinas grew up on the ancient Greek earth, time is a meaningful and underlying motivation. Ancient and modern Eleusis as a background motive: ancient columns in terms of the modern city, abandoned temple, earthy soil, to its former glory … barely appears and disappears in piles of dust from the refinery and shipbuilding docks. Eleusis today – it’s the exact opposite of its ancient history. The theme of the artist can be read as a story, but not in a negative sense, but as a treasure that will be open again.
