Focus on Funeral Composition and analyze the The Venice Biennale (1958) and the first solo exhibition in Athens (1959).
The painting composition Funeral Composition is also of interest in connection with the participation of the artist in two reports important for his resume: his participation, along with Yannis Tsarouhis and Anthony Soho in 1958 at the Venice Biennale, where of course, Commissioner of Tonis Spiteris, representing Greece, and organize the first solo exhibition the artist held in Athens, showroom Armos particular, the next years. The painting was between projects Moralis presented in both cases.
In an international environment where most dominating remove, anthropocentric painting of Moralis and Tsarouhis initiate the interest of Gio Ponti, who will devote their magazine Domus "three pages, with plenty of pictures and text very laudatory", which of course will delight both dialectical artists, considering how hard it was for a Greek painter distract abroad. indeed will be the occasion to discuss all those features of representational painting involving removal, even if this sounds as paradox.
Giò Ponti: There is a secret sect, the sect of those who know how to depict the human form. [...] And feel passionate bliss to enjoy with animal joy the opportunity to represent this form in all activities and on the physiognomy display fleeting expressions and to distinguish the characteristics of a precise contours [...] to depict seeing in this image, in this profile an extreme limit of humanity expression, human history but also the history of our time described simultaneously. The two Greek painters Yannis Moralis and John Tsarouhis belong to this "mystical company." because as I saw in Venice their projects, and was glad, because to the same sect, I belonged too.
Venice Biennale Anthony Soho Yannis Tsarouhis Gio Ponti Giò Ponti Athens