For Immediate Release
Venice, December 3, 2025
George Magalios Studios and Roberta Semeraro are pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition by George Magalios entitled “Alla Ricerca delle Tre Grazie” at Magazzino Gallery in Venice. The exhibition will take place from 10 December 2025 to 10 January 2026 with an opening reception to be held from on 10 December 2025 from 6 pm to 9 pm.
Alla Ricerca delle Tre Grazie (In Search of the Three Graces) consists of a series of color photographs of three women representing the mythical daughters of Zeus. The works represent an honoring of various women in the artist’s life by recognizing their inner beauty and charm and by casting them as the Three Graces, the mythical inspirations that bring forth creativity and joy in Greek mythology. Mr. Magalios’s works integrate the natural movements of the models with the artist’s use of the camera as a machine that creates extreme ranges of contrast with over-exposure and the use of unusual light sources ranging from the flash of the camera to the lamps of Venice. These are works that go beyond the photographic capturing of bodies and attempt to transcend the stillness of the image by rendering it more abstract and more painterly, in the process creating images that may offer the vision of a possible alternate world where the Goddesses of Zeus still reign, reincarnated in the bodies and the spirits of the women of Venice in 2025.
The photos for the exhibition will be presented in custom-made Venetian frames crafted by the Venetian framers Francesco Di Pumpo and Riccardo Di Pumpo. Each photograph will have its own unique frame, making each work an independent phenomenon of its own.
The curator of the exhibition, Roberta Semeraro, comments on these works by Mr. Magalios:
“George Magalios is an international artist. Painter, sculptor and photographer carries on his visual research following the paradigms of an aesthetic and hedonistic philosophy. George knows how to recognize and appreciate “the beautiful”, and this is the first thing I noticed about him, meeting him.
His daily search for beauty corresponds to a practice of life composed of small contemplative intervals, in which the artist observes himself around, fully living his daily life and completely immersing himself in the experience of living. It is no coincidence that he chose to move from the United States to Venice, where, despite the presence of global tourism, it is still possible to find that human dimension, which facilitates the “vis à vis” with the people who meet in the streets, in the campi, recognizing each other, observing each other and establishing emotional ties between them.
In this context, George tries to lose himself in order to rediscover his ideal of feminine grace, in contrast with the narrative of our times, which tends to deny the feminine nature and imagery of women.
As evidenced by the photographic works of Magalios, beauty makes existence pleasant. In this feminine universe ethical principles such as solidarity, complicity, equity, sisterhood that give these women their absolute beauty which the artist inspires by nourishing the gentle spirit of the feminine ideal and eliciting reciprocal emotions from the models.
”Less is more“ and it is technically by subtracting from the image its layers of contemporaneity, that the artist is “revealing” its universal content. Having reached this sort of bliss of seeing beyond, which corresponds as if to an enlightenment, here appear the graces among ordinary women who simply inhabit his world.
The models in the photographs are women of all ages and walks of life, since grace is an innate virtue in almost all the female gender. It can be considered almost a natural predisposition. In literature, starting from Beatrice by Dante Alighieri, the woman with her grace accompanies the poet, the artist towards the deepest understanding of truth. It is on this path that George Magalios started, carrying on his photographic project dedicated to the search for The Three Graces.”
George Magalios is an artist from Montreal who lives in Venice and who has exhibited internationally. He is a painter, sculptor and photographer who works within the paradigms of the philosophy of esthetic experience. His works are dialogues with the sacred and the beautiful, and represent an attempt at transcendence through phenomenological approaches to picture-making. The photographs on view in the exhibition are phenomenological statements and philosophical inquiries that pose the question: What if the Three Graces existed today?
For more information visit georgemagalios.com.
