ROMA GALLERY presents the first solo exhibition by Marianna Lourba. Made over the last two years, the works that make up the “Spring equinox” exhibition are structured by combinations of colours and shapes. Prevailing is a semi-circular shape with a bottleneck, which dresses up in many forms: depending on its position, it might be a woman’s hair, body, or face, two bodies about to come together, or two faces on the cusp of kissing. In the work that lends its title to the exhibition and signals the date of its opening (21 March 2024), the same shape resembles a drawn curtain, allowing the contrast of day and night, of light and darkness, to be seen. Lourba’s images have no beginning and no end – one complements another, takes part in the other’s world, with grace, balance, musicality, harmony and rhythm. The colours in her works express the distinctiveness of the Greek landscape, as it has been inscribed on our senses and our consciousness from the time of Homer until the present day.

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MARIANNA LOURBA

 “Spring Equinox”

Curated by Christoforos Marinos

Duration: 21.03.2024 – 20.04.2024

WORKS EXHIBITED

Marianna Lourba
“Spring equinox”, 2023
Mixed media
on wooden construction
95 x 140 cm 1 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Small Cyclades” 2023
Mixed media on wooden construction
90 x 200 cm 2 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Odyssey”, 2023
Mixed media
80 x 130 cm 3 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Pleiades”, 2024
Μixed media on wooden construction
80 x 130 cm 4 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Aegean”, 2023
Mixed media on wooden construction and light
100 x 100 cm 5 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“By the sea” 2023
Mixed media on wooden construction
90 x 130 cm 6 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Alcyonides”, 2024
Μixed media on wooden construction
80 x 130 cm 7 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Enopes”, 2023
Μixed media on wooden construction
85 x 135 cm
8 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Saline water” 2023
Mixed media on wooden construction
85 x 135 cm 9 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Synthesis of Cyclades”
Mixed media on wood with led light
45 x 200 cm 10 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“NOMA”
Mixed media on layers of wood with led light
100 x 100 cm 11 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“August”, 2022
Mixed media on paper
100 x 100 cm 12 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“AEOLUS”, 2022
Mixed media on wooden construction,
plexiglass and light
55 x 60 x 17 cm
Base (76 x 47 x 30 cm) 13 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Ithaca” 2023
Mixed media on wooden construction
100 x 100 cm 14 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Crimson Iris” 2023
Mixed media on wooden construction
100 x 100 cm 15 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Argo” 2023
Mixed media on wooden construction
100 x 100 cm 16 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Archipelago”, 2023
Mixed media on wooden construction and light
100 x 100 cm 17 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Opposite”, 2023
Electrostatic paint on galvanized steel
90 x 67 x 30 cm 18 of 19 Marianna Lourba
“Body”, 2023
Electrostatic paint on galvanized steel
90 x 67 x 30 cm 19 of 19

ARTIST

Marianna Lourba was born in 1980 in Athens. She pursued her studies in Art & Design at Middlesex University, London, before completing her postgraduate degree in Visual Communication and Design at the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED), Milan. Her artistic practice is defined by an abstract visual language, where geometry, materiality, and composition serve as conduits of meaning, forging a dialogue between contemporary expression and tradition. She has held five solo exhibitions and participated in over twenty group exhibitions worldwide, in cities including Athens, New York, Tokyo, Arezzo, and Orvieto. Her work has garnered distinctions and awards, among them from the DESTE Foundation and Mont Blanc. Since 2013, she has been teaching Visual Communication at a private college in Athens. Lourba’s works are housed in prominent private collections both in Greece and abroad. She lives and works in Athens.

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