Sensitized by Syrian immigration, because of her residence on the island of Limnos located in the North of the Aegean Sea, Angela imagines the terror of this woman who “escapes from the painting”.
Angela Vertsoni's paintings have incredibly dense structures. The density of the graphic composition reveals through careful observation a rather expressionist way of painting. It is an artistic conception, namely to work only with the structure of shapes and refined colors that distinguishes his work. The paintings seem to escape relativization by time and the surrounding environment, it is a question of catching the eye of the observer, the compositions and the colors having to challenge him. We thus approach step by step the “still life”, which detaches itself from its abstraction to reveal itself materially. It is painting free from any contingency, the pure process of the pictorial act. Is it the search for the absolute?
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