Basil Alkazzi “Artist Statement”
George Billis Gallery
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A prolific and compulsive painter, Basil Alkazzi has exhibited regularly in London, and in the United States. His long and distinguished career spans five decades. His work is in the collections of a great many museums in the USA and in Europe.
Basil Alkazzi’s painting is characterized by Spiritual and Metaphysical components which at once make it of deep significance to the beholder. The unresolved yet beautiful mysteries, alive with suspended drama, throb in the air and permeate the paintings …”His paintings represent the materialization of poems in visual terms unwritten yet redolent of many remembered. Time and growth are instrumental in motivating his imagery.”
He has always, from time to time, found the need to withdraw from the pressures of exhibitions, in order to create a new body of work, to concentrate upon and to explore the range and fecundity of his talent, and the techniques for expressing them. His vibrant body of new work displays a much greater sense of freedom and command of his métier.
In his recent paintings Basil Alkazzi continues the quest to pursue an intensely felt vision. There is a deep meditation on the flora inducing a strange spiritual calm to the viewer, yet making one look deeper, reaching towards the core of celebration let loose in a sensory world of nature’s own sensual and mysterious Life-force. Here everything connects within the harmony of the Universe at once both mystical and with an overwhelming sense of awe.
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from March 03, 2015 to March 28, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-03-05 from 18:00 to 20:00