It’s a painting after painting. An artistic proposal that knows the fundamental achievements of the twentieth century, from abstraction to dripping and from surrealism to informel, but also wants to distance itself from them – it uses them simply as a technical knowledge – to speak differently, to convey the agony from a different era, the contradiction between the diffuse crisis and ubiquitous prosperity, for the problem of representation and illusionism that no longer can save the work of art, but also for the need of painting that is both new and ancient.
Manos Stefanidis
01.01.2014