Art historian Manos Stefanidis writes in the exhibition’s catalog: “Imagine a genius and desperate architect who designs houses, industrial spaces, studios, postmodern offices with endless scales, buildings that are not, nevertheless, ever to be inhabited. Hence despair. Because there is no one else to endure the burden of habitation as an aesthetic proposition regarding existence. Everything that exists today could be condensed into Pentziki’s genius “Architecture of Scattered Life”. When everything collapses, could the images save the pretexts of existence?
This scenery of uncertainty with the details dominating and the key issues to be lost is the central question of this art unity of Panagiotis Siagris. It’s about painting after painting, a visual proposal that is aware of the twentieth century foundation conquests, from abstraction to dripping and surrealism to informal, which is striving to detach itself from them – and just utilize them as a means of technical know-how – so as to speak in a different way, convey the agony of a different era, such as the contradiction between the diffused crisis and ever present prosperity, the problem of reconstruction and illusionism that no longer saves the work of art, as well as our need of a painting that is new and ancient at the same time.
Manos Stefanidis