This autumn Lullin + Ferrari gallery showcases the work of the Greek artist Eleni Gkinosati. These paintings were realised during an artist’s residency from February until the end of July at the St. Moritz Art Academy and completed on site in Zurich in the gallery during the month of August. Gkinosati’s works develop within a large-scale canvas on which she makes broad gestures. The results are at times a tumult of movement, and at others still, sometimes in concert with a reduced palette, sometimes a jumble of blocks of contrasting colour.

Gkinosati is known as an abstract painter, yet when she arrived in the Engadin and encountered the winter light there, she made several smaller works in which, more so than in other recent output, shapes are outlined and defined. These forms, while not easily decipherable, possess a distinct sense of volume. A centrepiece of the exhibition at Lullin + Ferrari is a three and a half metre-wide painting shown in the second gallery space encapsulating the essence of her work from spring and summer. This painting, used as the motif for the invitation card of the show, exemplifies that push and pull, in and out of object-ness that engaged her. While several undefinable but nonetheless discrete things – organs, asteroids? – float out, other gestures are wedded to the flatness of the canvas. Some highlights generate depth and others are drawn into the dynamic of the flat picture.