MOZART

MOZART THE ART OF FAITH (2006)

In 2006, the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, Warlamis, in order to honor this great composer, created a painting collection inspired by the life and music of this great creator but also by his interest in rendering a musical work with his images.

The concept was very original and impressive. He painted large paintings, placed in a row like a labyrinth, among which the visitor could move and at the same time listen, from different sources to Mozart’s music. In this way, Warlamis managed to give the opportunity even to those who have no musical education to have a special musical experience.

he himself writes...

"…I worked for four whole years on Mozart's work. For four years, with responsibility and discipline, I was taught his sounds, his music. I tried to find a way to transfer the notes, the compositions, the concertos, the services, the operas, into an iconographic world. From the first experiments, I found both the solution and the path. I had to work with the infinite colors in a parallel world, without logical coherence except for the eternal vertigo of his sounds..."

E. Warlamis

what did they say...

I believe that Warlamis does what Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart did. He expresses his thoughts and feelings as a painter and thus unites the three-dimensionality of the painter in a unique personality. That is why he can stand against the musician Mozart as an equal in this respect. He combines the painter, the designer and the architect…

In this evocative visual and musical union of Warlamis, Mozart's desire is articulated for as many people, more peoples, more places, more religions as possible to fit in and enjoy. An open call for a Dionysian and at the same time Apollonian celebration where colors and mystical sounds are united in a vision whose focal point is in the theology of the ineffable and the openness of Greek Orthodoxy, while Mozart's relationship with the Greek light is revealed...

PRESENTATION OF THE COLLECTION

The collection was presented in Austria (IDEA Design Center 2005) and in Greece, Thessaloniki 2006 (PORT AUTHORITY), Athens 2007 (MAJOR HELLENIC FOUNDATION – HELLENIC WORLD).