Vielmetter Los Angeles is worked up to announce, Your Tears Will Dry, a solo exhibition of latest works by Kiriakos Tompolidis. The work included on this exhibition are deeply influenced by Tompolidis’ latest transfer to Mexico Metropolis from Berlin, incorporating the colour palette, visible sensibilities, and the endemic wildlife of his new atmosphere into meticulous portrayals of recollections and emotional states. A lot of his apply grapples together with his notion of being in between cultures and locations, articulating each the parallels and fissures between his adopted residence and his native nation of Greece. The work depict topics who appear to vacillate between emotions of displacement and familiarity, fragility and resolve, with a granular consideration given to the patinas and patterns of their environment.
Within the portray Beneath the Bougainvillea, a younger model of Tompolidis stands in entrance of an ornately patterned doorway, a vivid fuchsia Bougainvillea cascading over the structure whereas stray cats lounge close by. Like in lots of his work, photograph transfers and different artifacts are seamlessly built-in into the composition – Bougainvillea leaves from Greece are delicately woven in among the many petals, and the tactility of the ground tiles is enhanced with collaged parts. The diptych acts as a bridge between disparate occasions and areas, exposing the stunning similarities between the vegetation, animals, and vernacular structure of the artist’s childhood recollections of Greece together with his newer experiences in Mexico Metropolis and Los Angeles.
Tompolidis’ work occupy an ambiguous and atemporal house that attracts from household histories, lived expertise, and desires, and that’s made tangible by means of intricately rendered textures and floor remedies. Patterns in textiles, structure, and nature perform as signifiers of place, time, and cultural context. Within the work Her Reflection Tompolidis depicts his grandmother as a younger lady, capturing her pensive smile within the mirror of her vainness and the small cross necklace and household portrait sitting atop her dresser. The artist’s grandmother reappears within the titular work Your Tears Will Dry, a trompe l’oeil portray of the again of a canvas inscribed with the phrase she usually repeated, and which was formative in his understanding of perseverance. A number of the work current an unvarnished realism whereas others teeter into the surreal, in order that collectively they provide a richly detailed view of an area between actuality and recollection.
