In the present exposition, the inspired artist Eva Divari is revealing another fold of her conjectural character. The imposing in volume sea-going vessels, the rusted and sunburned iron-plates, the special accessories she has made express her soul, her memory and her experience due to her special co-existence with the sea element. The artist is probing unsolicited the expression and with the group of her specific works, she gives special attention to other levels where the volume, the clarity of the colours and the grandeur of the compositions are dominating majestically.
The technique she is applying touches the ultimate realistic picturing, with expressionist deviations that represent almost exactly the methodology of the avant-garde iconography. The Greek ship-building art, the area of the shipyard and of the harbour are exciting her thematically. She can simulate into a living form every scene that includes the sea travelling, by giving shape to every thought concerning the natural elements. The complex shapes and the horizon give meaning to the complacence of an idiom, to a personal isolation and to a self-marginality. Through new visual angles, Divari is bringing forward the peculiarities, the properties the characteristics and certain distinctive visible issues of the naval landscape and of the sea biotope. Her memory of experiences, her indulgence in this interesting environment and her investigative interest make her compose and describe an area that is often unknown to the eye of the common observer. Her rambling reaches interesting results since, in this game, she is using artfully the variety of senses and she is exploiting appropriately the immense scale of the chromatic approach and the texture of the tonic gradation.
She is organizing artfully the compositions; she presents the angular, bulky and pointed shapes with their oxidized color; the curved cubic shapes with the rusted, heated, red shapes. The structure in the colon of the brush strokes is calculated according to the colors of the chromatic spectrum and is analyzed into color fields that accentuate the contours. The light plays a leading role in this painting. It is absorbed, deepening, reflecting by enriching the compositions with iridescence. It gives to the spectator a feeling of Joy that originates from the wideness, the directness and the inspiration of a charismatic application. The graphic description of Eva Divari is certainly an escape from everyday life, an invading in the post-modern condition with reliability. She has adopted the specifications of the new-descriptive versions. Her pictures, as dialectic components of prospect and distances, indicate an interpretation that is focusing on achievements, on an enigmatic fertile relation between the familiar and the distant; the metaplasis of the realism and of the metaphysical dimension. The pictures are equipped with a uniqueness. An internal temperament with expressed elegy, in which every detail is approaching the size of the grandeur and the excessiveness.
The peculiar metals from the sea-salt and the sun constitute psychological studies; and in the same time they include the works, the meanings and the texts.
By surpassing the existing object, Eva Divari is driving to interventions of thought and conclusion, to absolutely justified meanings.
Leontios Petmezas
Art Historian