“I wanted to call painting” this work “because it’s just about … painting. I believe that today the conditions are not enough to determine the diversity of visual expression. We have overtaken the instruments themselves and what is left to the artist is to define his own vocabulary, “Dimosthenis Kokkinidis says in” Vima “a few days before the inauguration of his new exhibition. With the first public presentation of his works in 1960, the artist was one of the first to “clean” his palette by expressing his reflection on social phenomena, with “raw material” the unified color surfaces. “At that time the painting in Athens gave me the impression of a field of blacksmith. The colors around me were brown and gray, but I was seeing white and blue seas, I saw a light yellow, sometimes aggressive, sometimes pleasant.”
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