Explore The Exhibition Painting Endurance With the Female Form

Konstantina Krikzoni's 'ARMATURA' depicts conflict on canvas.

Konstantina Krikzoni

L’Appartement Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, is hosting a solo exhibition by London-based artist Konstantina Krikzoni, entitled ARMATURA, featuring writings by writer Jennifer Higgie and artist Nigel Cooke. This represents femininity, strength, and conflict on canvas.

A profoundly personal endeavour for Krikzoni, she tested the boundaries of her painting skill and emotional resilience during a single experience in her studio. The artist revisited the female form as a locus of convergence between figuration and abstraction, creating works that simultaneously disclose and obscure. In the artworks, the body appears flowing and nearly fragmented due to layers of paint interrupted by unforeseen lines. In this context, lines do not delineate; rather, they disintegrate to forge a poetic and emotional tension.

Konstantina Krikzoni

The female figures portrayed in these paintings exhibit no passivity and are not engaged in performance. The individuals are assertive, engaging your gaze directly with a composed assurance. The pictures evoke funerary compositions by Rubens, with bodies portrayed in shades of grey and yellow, poised between flesh and its shadow. The pieces examine endings directly, seeking understanding rather than evasion. Krikzoni elucidates that the exhibition's title derives from the metal framework supporting sculptures, serving as a metaphor for a deeper concept: an internal structure that sustains us when circumstances seem to disintegrate. An armour constructed from the interior outward, a method of reinforcement, resilience, and survival. These creations arose from an essential necessity to persist, to analyse, and to transmute emotion into form.

The show is open from January 22 to April 30 in Geneva. Visit the gallery's website for additional information.