27. 27AR NIKOS HADJIKYRIAKOS-GHIKA (1906-1994) Art & décoration

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27. 27AR NIKOS HADJIKYRIAKOS-GHIKA (1906-1994) Roman landscape signé et daté « Ghika 70 » (en bas à droite) signé, daté et titré (au dos) gouache sur papier 30,5 x 50 cm. Peint en 1970 The rhythmically developed and spatially distorted depictions of Byzantine towns used as backdrops in much of icon painting, are here pushed to a relentless extreme, transformed by Ghika into a dense web of fragmented lines, sharp angles and spiralling curves. Having captured the cityscape's deeper geometrical structure, the artist breaks it down to its component pieces and then recomposes it to deliver an expressionistic formulation of a labyrinthine architectural complex invested with poetic feeling. Narrow streets, ancient ruins and crooked stone walls spin in perpetual orbits, swept up in the mesmeric whirlpool of a cosmic dance, evoking a kaleidoscopic dreamscape that verges on metaphysical abstraction.