Source: tanea.gr
Code:
Ζ27-33
Title:
Cyclades
Dimensions:150 × 50 cm
Material
Description:acrylic on canvas
Created in 2012
“At that time, painting in Athens gave me the impression of a field of solid black. The colors around me were brown and gray, but I was seeing white and blue seas, I saw light as yellow, sometimes aggressive and other times pleasant.” Source: tovima.gr
"I was never willing to take part in something where it is predetermined what is high and what is not. On the other hand, I never wanted to be a pioneer ¬ the pioneers for me were exhausted in the first two decades of the century. I created constructions and showed them at a exhibition I did in 1967 at the Zoumboulakis gallery, looking for ways to declare my resistance to dictatorship, but from then on I remained a traditional painter. And that does not bother me. I want to change slowly and have control over what I do. Art after all is not an experiment but the result of it. ". "I am not interested in provoking the public. I am against provoking a surprise. I am a fan of the philosophy of the beautiful, despite the fact that the aesthetic rules are now abolished with the unity between what is conceived and what is meant. .. ».
Source: tovima.gr