Valentine Willie Fine Art is pleased to present Beyond Reality, a solo exhibition by the Greek artist TANO. In this show, TANO incorporates various traditional techniques to materialise his visions and thoughts, such as Batik from Southeast Asia and charcoal drawing from the European tradition. There will be also the presentation of an artwork crafted according to the Byzantine icon painting. This is meant to help the viewers approach the subject of the exhibition through the spectrum of different traditions of artistic creation.

This exhibition is presented as an artistic journey beyond the limits of our senses. The artworks present a lifelong commitment by the artist to explore the “unseen worlds”. The parallel dimensions that exist beyond the reality that our senses create.

TANO is forming a philosophy based on the comparison and combination of string theory, quantum mechanics, astrophysics and biology with the traditions of shamanism and the old religions, a philosophical system that becomes material through the art of painting. The artists’ goal is to show what can possibly exist after our human limitations. He looks into the continuous appearance of the forces and energies of nature such as spirals, rotations and chaotic movements that affect and constantly rearrange the form and shape of everything, from the macrocosm to the microcosm. The paths that this art is taking us are the paths of the mystical exploration of our inner selves and the outer realities of the spiritual.