Seven works from the latest year represented in the archive
Linear B
The signs do not illustrate the image. They become its weather.
Linear B · latest works · 2017
A script once pressed into clay returns through color, incision and light.
Samartzidis does not treat Linear B as an archaeological quotation. Across these works, ancient signs enter contemporary painting as rhythm, memory and physical presence.
Mycenean Gold
2017 · Acrylic on canvas · 60 × 80 cm · No. 1-062
Inexorable Light
2017 · Acrylic on canvas · 64 × 84 cm · No. 1-045
Desert Wind
2017 · Acrylic on canvas · 50 × 70 cm · No. 1-025
Blue Light
2017 · Acrylic on canvas · 30 × 70 cm · No. 1-014
The image does not ask to be decoded before it can be felt.
Meeresrauschen
2017 · Acrylic on canvas · 85 × 99.5 cm · No. 1-055
Anadyomene
2017 · Acrylic on canvas · 30 × 40 cm · No. 1-003
1978—2019 · Selected chronology
Exhibition history.
The Linear B works belong to a longer public life across Greece, Germany and France.
August “Reading the past – The fascinating world of Linear-B”, Foyer of the Hugenottenhalle, Neu-Isenburg, Germany.
February “Linear-B: The Mycenaean Writing”, Tax Office Wiesbaden, Germany.
August “VANISHING POINTS”, Foyer of the Hugenottenhalle, Neu-Isenburg, Germany.
October Annual Exhibition, “Malkasten” Artists Union of Rüsselsheim, “New Artworks”, Town Hall of Rüsselsheim, Germany.
October “60 Years Decipherment of Linear B”, Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Offenbach, Germany.
April “60 Years Decipherment of Linear B – Art and Science”, Heinrich-Schliemann-Museum, Ankershagen.
October “Linear B and the Pearls of the Aegean Sea”, Town Hall of Mainz.
February “The fascinating world of Linear-B – an artistic Bridge to ancient Mycenae”, “TERZO” Gallery, Berlin.
July Long Night of Museums, Gallery Neunauge, Hanau, Germany.
March “Bridges to HELLAS”, Kulturstation Kaufmann, Gelnhausen-Meerholz.
March “VANISHING POINTS”, Town Hall of Rüsselsheim.
November “X-mal Spanierin mit Fächer”, OPELVILLEN Rüsselsheim.
October “Wechsel”, Town Hall of Rüsselsheim.
September Cultural Summer in South Hessen, Malkasten, Rüsselsheim.
September “Open Studio Days”, Malkasten, Rüsselsheim.
May “Linear-B, the only known Syllable Writing for a known European Language”, 40th anniversary of the Cretan Community, Town Hall, Rüsselsheim.
October “60 Years Malkasten”, Anniversary Exhibition, Municipal Theatre of Rüsselsheim.
May “Hommage à M. Ventris – The fascinating world of Linear-B”, Gate of St. George, Heraklion, Crete.
March “The fascinating world of Linear-B”, Land Registry Office, Rüsselsheim, Germany.
February “Mit anderen Augen”, OPEL VILLEN, Rüsselsheim.
June “Made in…”, photo exhibition, Kunstkemenate, Rüsselsheim.
March “Was Malerei hier ist…”, Kunstkemenate, Rüsselsheim.
June “Malkasten” union exhibit tour, City Hall of Evreux, France.
November “GEWOBAU”, Mieterkunst 2001, Rüsselsheim, Germany.
November “WOODBRIDGE” European Headquarters, Mörfelden-Walldorf, Germany.
May St. George Greek Orthodox Church, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
November St. George Greek Orthodox Church, Wiesbaden-Biebrich, Germany.
May Commercial Bank of Greece, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
May Greek Cultural Events, Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
January “Diakonisches Werk”, Ingelheim, Germany.
September Art Exhibit of Foreign Residents, Haus am Dom, Mainz, Germany.
May “Kunsthandwerkermarkt”, Fortress of Rüsselsheim, Germany.
November “WOODBRIDGE” Main Office, Rüsselsheim, Germany.
“ARVI Studio – Ceramics”, permanent exhibition, Horto, Mt. Pelion, Greece.
Pub “SELINI”, Thessaloniki, Greece.
“Mikri Stoa Technis” Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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