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GREEK LAND 2019 - SYROS

The sub-title of the current exhibition of this highly talented artist, Alina Matsa, could be: A visual “ode” to the unique atmosphere and light of the Greek landscape… In essence, by the various materials and their apt blending, she creates, a balanced “ambiance”, in perfect connection with this Greek “uniqueness”. Instinctively she picks up the element (genius locus) of the landscape, which has captivated her, and reinvents it through her highly sensitized awareness conveying to us it’s “aura”. At the same time, however, in a homeopathic way, through a seemingly realistic composition, stemming from her basically lyric nature, she conveys feelings and situations that engage us in a cosmogenic energy, both in texture and intensity…. In Matsa’s paintings, even the smallest but always meaningful detail is, at all times, embraced in the principal theme with indescribable charm. Every tree or meadow, every flower or coastline, every structure, is integrated and always presented with a strong collaborator: the charismatic colour / light and vice versa. The poetic feeling emanating from her work, is indeed exceptional…. The metaphysical element is definitely ever present.Indeed, the thorough transformation of matter into spirit,  present in  Matsa’s paintings, fully verify Plato’s definition of authentic art. That is, art must represent an Idea and not be an imitation. A particularly difficult venture in the century of “icon” and globalization, in which, however, the charismatic painter responds with a constantly renewed and intense crescendo.

 

Dr.DORA ILIOPOULOU-ROGAN 2018

Art Historian-Art critic

Officier des Arts et Lettres

DREAMLAND 2014 - PARIS

L’ innocence latente de l’ enfance d’ Alina Matsa  apparait dúne maniere naturelle  sur ses toiles de rêve, se reflète par ses couleurs et nous emmène  a dreamland. Le Pays de Rêve comme l artiste choisit de nommer sa proposition artistique détient de nombreuses surprises. Mer et paysage de la Méditerranée  flirtent révélant  l’emprunt de la nature de L’Europe du Sud, ou comme il est évident, la créatrice puise son inspiration.  Les couleurs éclatantes parfois même jusqu’ a l’ extreme , se combinant aux dimensions¨ familières ¨ des tableaux , stimulent  des sentiment de tendresse, de beaux souvenirs, un desir d’appropriation. Les toiles qui composent ¨dreamland” pourraient potentiellement représenter une action de protestation de la part de l’artiste contre cette crise polymorphique qui ravage la vie de nos jours.


KYRIAKOS PETALIDIS

Art curator 2014

DREAMLAND 2014 - 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 paints her playful landscapes with vivid and rich colors, wanting to stimulate the viewer’s emotions towards something that does not exist, but is revealed in her ideal world. She leads us into colorful fields, where land is a blossomed carpet, weightless, rising above the ground to grant us lightness, feelings of tranquility, balance and bliss…

 

MARIZA FASSIANOU 2014

COLOUR AND CLAY 2011 - PATMOS

The question presented to the viewer of the works of Alina Matsa is whether the artist likes to depict the natural environment or creates her own notional environment derived from the emotional weight that is ejected from her internal world. In other words, is she seeking the representation of the real, or the emergence of the subconscious and the mapping of the conceptual? It is true that the artist is inspired by the landscape, from the forms, shapes and colours that compose all the aspects of the material world. However, bypassing the challenge of understanding the visible topographic conception, she captures the characteristics that make up the identity of landscape elements. Through such a process the natural extends to the conceptual and the undefined and imaginary is constituted as real…. The tension created by the strong chromatic tones, soften by the clarity caused by the incident light on the surface and the bright horizons showing the refined sensibility and technical skill of the artist.

 

Nikos Moschonas, 2011

Art Historian and Critic