Marina Gialama is a Greek contemporary artist who uses various mediums, such as ink, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, plaster, or clay, to create expressionist sketches, paintings, and sculptures.
Her artworks focus on the integral human form—both the smooth and the rough around the edges. Gialama’s somber and poetic paintings are a tender and unpretentious ode to the human body. Nudity itself is shadowed by the shape of what the body exudes, by its form and its language.
By immersing herself in capturing it through a plethora of various mediums, it shows the hunger, the inherent desire the artist has in containing a subject’s meaning, filtering it out through her own vision and perception, and delivering it to the world as an offering. Drawing inspiration from the work of other artists (such as Nasos Karabelas, a contributor to this very issue), Gialama offers an alternative interpretation distilled through personal bias.
Read our “Metamorphosis” issue in full
In the 3rd issue of RAWGUE., 24 visual artists and poets share a common pursuit: authenticity over perfection. The subtle art of becoming, the passage through various stages of artistic contemplation, the ever-shifting states of mind, feeling, and medium, or the act of altering reality to underline emotion or meaning – metamorphosis.
We’re a team of writers using our craft to spotlight art in its most honest form. RAWGUE. started as a bi-monthly editorial experiment where each issue’s theme is dictated by the submitted work, thus removing editorial bias from the equation and preserving a more raw approach. We focus on all forms of poetry: written, photographed, painted, drawn, and filmed.
