Radical Shifts

April 23rd 2007 12:00 am | Visual Art | Feature - By Diana Simmonds

Margarita Georgiadis explains to Diana Simmonds how nothing is virtually everything.

Georgiadis says: "I suppose that's why I paint. Images are such powerful statements in themselves - they are in a way 'intervals', 'insights' into never-ending interpretations, which is how I hope this show will be viewed."

And in the viewing we'll see that she's not abandoning her working methods, rather, the working methods are moving with her into new territory.

"I certainly won't discontinue my use of multimedia,," she says. "In fact, the bulk of the images for the paintings were created by manipulating images from the internet, digitally enhanced then painted from my laptop. Instead of painting from a still life, I paint from my laptop in the studio."

Internal - Oil on Canvas This method of production also informed another level of her philosophical exploring when she absorbed Baudrillard's notion of "The Mirror of Production" - photography.

"Not painting from 'life' was in fact painting 'dead images," she explains. "The red shoes are the only paintings painted 'from life, that is, from the real objects before me, and that is why they are the epitome of the 'presence' of 'absence'; referring to painting being the illusion of reality.

"The works painted from my laptop - two dimensional - are therefore the epitome of the 'appearance' of 'disappearance'. Another cyclic journey I went on within the game of spheres!"

The Game of Spheres, April 26-May19; Rex-Livingston Art Dealer, 156 Commonwealth Street, Surry Hills; ph: 02 9280 4156; 0414 240 664; www.rex-livingston.com.

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