Forecasting

19 March – 23 May 2025

Opening: Wednesday 19 March, 7pm

Zisis Bliatkas, Catchers, 2024, printed fabric on mattress, 102×122 cm

Rebecca Camhi gallery is pleased to invite you to the solo exhibition of Zisis Bliatkas entitled “Forecasting: Days as Surfaces.”

“The canvas is similar to trees. We can imagine the highest leaves of a tree as those that first sense changes in weather and temperature. The trunk is there to support the expansion of the foliage, which extends over a larger surface and height to capture the daily sunlight. If we look at trees structurally, we are struck by their attention to excellent support, as well as the gentle occupation of space by the leaves.

A similar support and expansion is found on the canvas, which manages to participate and reconstruct the story of light. Whether it is sunlight or the digital light from the screen, the painting reconciles them. After all, it is an object that awaits to learn how organic life operates.

This is how I approach painting, as a large surface that can accommodate constructions and events: a wooden lighthouse, the lights of a provincial road, falling fireworks. These creations can rest on the surface and relate to external experiences.The adventure of creating an image is also the occasion for a forecast, a calm and static narrative of luminous becoming.” – Z.B.

Zisis Bliatkas, Internet kite celebration, 2024
printed fabric on mattress, 115×184 cm

 

Zisis Bliatkas,Quieters, 2024, acrylic on canvas, 100×100 cm

 

Zisis Bliatkas was born in Thessaloniki in 1992 and lives in Naoussa, in Imathia. His paintings include the use of outdated painting software on computer, as well as works on canvas and paper. He is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts of Florina and holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts. Since 2023, he has been in the Master’s program in “Systematic Philosophy” at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has held solo exhibitions in Athens, New York, Mykonos, and participated in group exhibitions in Athens, Thessaloniki, and Berlin. He was a founding member of the artistic group in the collective of artists with or without disabilities, “En Dynami.”