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FELICITA – GROUP EXHIBITION

With the renowned Italian song ‘Felicita’ as our basis, we will be creating works and hosting a unique experience in Rome.

The word ‘Happiness’ is an oft-said word, a much-discussed concept, both ordinary and complex, not amenable to specific definitions, nor to experimental documentation. It raises several questions as to what it actually is, how it is actually experienced and approached, both by individuals themselves and by the theoretical disciplines that have discussed it, such as philosophy, psychology, and theology.

Is happiness a subjective state of being, subject to personal value judgments? Is it an emotion, a mood, or an experience? Is it an aim, a desire, or a utopia for some people, while also an everyday experience, a state of life for others? Are there only happy moments, or can happiness become a permanent state?

How does one define the presence and absence of happiness? Aristotle and Plato discussed the concept of happiness, with the former speaking of the highest ‘eudaimonia’ and bliss, a synergy with the will of God, separating it as a concept from ‘happiness’, which he considers perhaps accidental and temporary when compared to ‘eudaimonia’. Plato, on the other hand, defined happiness as one’s ability to see the essence of things. Did he believe that we would find the essence of human happiness if we could identify the miracle of life.

Religions and other philosophical systems from the East believe that achieving happiness requires a constant struggle, which includes meditation and discipline. It is said that one achieves absolute happiness when one ceases to focus on the past or the future and simply exists in the hear and now. This state of permanent happiness is called “enlightenment”.

In any case, we will have the chance to feel these happy moments during the group exhibition to be held during Easter 2025.

FELICITA

H ΄Ευτυχία’ λέξη χιλιοειπωμένη, έννοια πολυσυζητημένη, έννοια καθημερινή και δυσνόητη που δεν επιδέχεται συγκεκριμένους ορισμούς ούτε και πειραματική τεκμηρίωση. Εγείρει πολλά ερωτήματα για το ποια πραγματικά είναι και για το πώς βιώνεται και προσεγγίζεται τόσο από το ίδιο το άτομο όσο και από τα θεωρητικά πεδία που ασχολήθηκαν μαζί της, όπως η φιλοσοφία, η ψυχολογία, η θεολογία.

Είναι η ευτυχία υποκειμενική κατάσταση και υπόκειται σε προσωπικές αξιολογικές κρίσεις; Είναι συναίσθημα, διάθεση ή βίωμα; Είναι στόχος, επιθυμία ή ουτοπία για κάποιους ανθρώπους ενώ για άλλους αποτελεί καθημερινό βίωμα, κατάσταση ζωής; Υπάρχουν μόνο οι ευτυχισμένες στιγμές ή μπορεί να αποτελέσει μόνιμη κατάσταση;

Πώς καθορίζεται η παρουσία της και η έλλειψη της; Ο Αριστοτέλης και ο Πλάτωνας ασχολήθηκαν με την έννοια της ευτυχίας και ο μεν πρώτος μίλησε για ύψιστη ‘ευδαιμονία’ και μακαριότητα, συνέργεια με την θέληση του Θεού, την διαχωρίζει ως έννοια από την ευτυχία την οποία την θεωρεί ίσως τυχαία και πρόσκαιρη σε σχέση με την ευδαιμονία. Ο Πλάτωνας πάλι όρισε την ευτυχία ως την ικανότητα του ανθρώπου να δει την ουσία των πραγμάτων. Πιστεύει ότι εάν ο άνθρωπος αναγνωρίσει το θαύμα της ζωής, τότε θα βρει την ουσία της ανθρώπινης ευτυχίας.

Θρησκείες και άλλα φιλοσοφικά συστήματα της Ανατολής θεωρούν πως για να κατακτήσεις την ευτυχία χρειάζεται ένας συνεχής αγώνας που συμπεριλαμβάνει τον διαλογισμό και την πειθαρχία. Αναφέρεται πως ο άνθρωπος κατακτά την απόλυτη ευτυχία όταν παύει να έχει το νου στο παρελθόν ή το μέλλον και βρίσκεται στο εδώ και το τώρα. Η κατάσταση της μόνιμης ευτυχίας ονομάζεται ‘φώτιση’.

Όπως και να χει, μπορούμε να νιώσουμε τις ευτυχισμένες στιγμές σε αυτήν την ομαδική έκθεση το Πάσχα του 2025

‘’Ευτυχία είναι ένα ποτήρι κρασί με ένα σάντουιτς

Η ευτυχία είναι ν’ αφήνεις ένα σημείωμα μεσ’ στο συρτάρι

Η ευτυχία είναι να τραγουδάν δυο φωνές πόσο μ’ αρέσεις.

Η ευτυχία ευτυχία

Η ευτυχία είναι ένα πουπουλένιο μαξιλάρι και το νερό του ποταμού που κυλά και φεύγει

Είναι η βροχή που πέφτει πίσω απ’ τις κουρτίνες

Η ευτυχία είναι να χαμηλώνεις το φως για να ειρηνέψεις

Η ευτυχία ευτυχία

Νιώσε τον αέρα είναι κιόλας

το τραγούδι της αγάπης μας που ταξιδεύει

σαν μια σκέψη που ξέρει την ευτυχία

Νιώσε τον αέρα είναι κιόλας

μια θερμή ηλιαχτίδα που ταξιδεύει

σαν ένα χαμόγελο που ξέρει την ευτυχία…’’

Georgia Trouli

NOSTOS, when Trouli...... meets Trani

Il viaggio come metafora della vita.

E' un tema classico, e citare Ulisse, il suo viaggio e il suo peregrinare per i mari verso

Itaca, parrebbe scontato, ma non lo è.

Nostos, in senso omerico, è il viaggio di ritorno, da una guerra verso la pace, verso

casa.

In Trouli e Trani il viaggio artistico appare invece un peregrinare senza sosta, che

porta al naufragio dei sensi, all'oblio surreale, in cui entrambi si perdono, per

ricercare se stessi.

Viaggiano a vela l'ignoto, suggerendo paesaggi che non esistono se non nelle loro

menti e nei loro cuori. Ed è come un incontro di venti..... il Meltemi, nel caldo

dell'estate, talvolta tiepido e mite e talaltra in burrasca, sospinge l'Artista greca dalle

coste della Tessalonica verso sud...... e lo Zefiro primaverile accompagna lievemente

l'Artista italiano dalla costa tirrenica verso oriente. E così il tepore di Georgia

incontra la brezza di Alessandro in un gioco di vibrazioni cromatiche e atmosfere

sospese, che si fondono armonicamente, come in un mare solcato insieme.

Trani predilige paesaggi marini, in atmosfere soffuse e rarefatte, mentre Trouli

dipinge visioni in cui le sfumature dei blu e dei verdi si alternano a tonalità

decisamente più calde e il paesaggio viene reinventato con suggestioni di terre

lontane.

Le prospettive verso l'orizzonte, individuate da linee e fasce di colore, che rimandano

ad albe, crepuscoli o tramonti, suggeriscono volizioni, emozioni e stati d'animo

diversi, più pacati in Trani, più vibranti in Trouli.

Quando Trouli incontra Trani è un momento intenso, di condivisione di esperienze di

vita diverse, lontane, ma accomunate dallo stesso indomito spirito di affrontare e

superare con l'arte le peripezie di un viaggio che non avrà mai fine.The journey as a metaphor for life.

It is a classic theme, and quoting Ulysses, his journey and his wandering across the

seas towards Ithaca, would seem obvious, but it is not.

Nostos, in the Homeric sense, is the return journey, from a war towards peace,

towards home.

In Trouli and Trani the artistic journey instead appears as a ceaseless wandering,

which leads to the shipwreck of the senses, to surreal oblivion, in which both are lost,

to search for themselves.

They sail the unknown, suggesting landscapes that do not exist except in their minds

and hearts. And it is like a meeting of winds... the Meltemi, in the heat of summer,

sometimes warm and mild and sometimes stormy, pushes the Greek Artist from the

coasts of Thessalonica towards the south...... and the spring Zephyr gently

accompanies the Italian Artist from the Tyrrhenian coast towards the east. And so

Georgia's warmth meets Alessandro's breeze in a game of chromatic vibrations and

suspended atmospheres, which blend harmoniously, as in a sea crossed together.

Trani prefers seascapes, in soft and rarefied atmospheres, while Trouli paints visions

in which the shades of blue and green alternate with decidedly warmer tones and the

landscape is reinvented with suggestions of distant lands.

The perspectives towards the horizon, identified by lines and bands of color, which

refer to dawns, twilights or sunsets, suggest different volitions, emotions and moods,

more calm in Trani, more vibrant in Trouli.

When Trouli meets Trani it is an intense moment, of sharing different life

experiences, distant, but united by the same indomitable spirit of facing and

overcoming with art the vicissitudes of a journey that will never end.

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I am very happy to collaborate with other world watercolorists, 350 of us, in Ceret, France!

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