Special Exhibitions & Events
2022 “I miss you”
Merimna Foundation, Athens
Today the magic is still here, as always. The light has no boundaries, nor obstacles. Imprisoned within the walls of my home? Really? Yet everything I own is within these four walls. Photos in a worn-out album, scattered thoughts scribbled on forgotten note pads…memories that now have the luxury of time to appear. Everything that nourishes me is here..
2021 "St. Basil"
Xmas calendar for Orthodox Patriarchy, Instabul
2020 “Dream Land 2” ID Project Art Gallery, Athens
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2019 “Greek land”, Municipality Hall G&E Vati, Syros
Dr.DORA ILIOPOULOU-ROGAN 2018
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2018 Series of Paintings Commissioned for the Fetal Medicine Center, King’s College Hospital, London
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2016 Art Athina
Skoufa 4, Athens
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2014 “Dreamland”
La petite gallerie, Paris
The universe of Alina Matsa has the image of the ideal. In her world, life, nature and creation are depicted with purity, emotion and the urgency of the artist to express “the dream”. She leads us into colourful fields, where land is a blossomed carpet, weightless, rising above the ground to grant us lightness and bliss. Her images radiate feelings of tranquility and balance reminiscent of a carefree excursion at a seaside village, with freshly painted houses, on a human scale.
Mariza Fassianou 2014
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2014 “Oasis”, Art en Capital, Contemporary French Artists,
Grand Palais, Paris
She paints her dreamy landscapes with vivid and rich colors, wanting to stimulate the viewer’s emotions towards something that does not exist, but wishing for it to happen. Looking at her paintings, Alina Matsa produces this picture in our psyche the picture of a “dream-land”. Rightly so, since the world we live in is based on the daily practice of life and has nothing in common with the world of the Arts. Maybe the world we live in should be created by “artists” and earthly matter, so that we humans can live, love and flourish within it and with it.
Mariza Fassianou 2014
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2010 "Colors of the World", Retracing Istanbul,
Chalke, Turkey
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2010 “Greek Sale” Bonham’s Auction House, Athens
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2009 “Greek Colour”, Sotheby’s London
Alina Matsa usually uses a thick layer from an alchemy of materials that inspire her, revealing the processes carried out by the subconscious during the metamorphosis of the stimuli it receives. The sensations that her works evoke, through the alternations, the rhythms and the transparency of the field of their stratifications, present a connection of dream and reality, impressions and memory, which stimulate the perception and imagination of the viewer.
Athena Schina 2007
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2007 “Contemporary Greek artists”
Moscow Music Hall, Moscow
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2007 Mikis Theodorakis at Herodium Theatre (Concert for the fire victims with display of paintings), Athens
2007 Material Links MOCA Museum, Shanghai, China
In her work, “Substitution and “Wind” Alina Matsa immerses herself with fervor into a world of materials, studying different techniques continuously, balancing on the crevices of an ambiguous interpretation of motifs, leaving the viewer gradually enter the self-contained world of a revised mythology of the landscape and to create a path by sight and touch through the cosmogony of her universe, as it unfolds triumphant in the form of a wall mural with clear cut elements. Segmented scenes from myths, handmade fragments of a dense narrative, fragments of color, dipped in oxygen satiated mediums, penetrate the cracks of the painting surface…. until the self-sufficiency of the initial intent are abolished and the image transcends into a new “real” destination.
IRIS CRITIKOU 2007
Art Historian
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2006 Mural Commissioned for the Home of the Elderly Lampsas’ Building, Athens
