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Sianti Gallery on Thursday, May 4 at 20:00 opens the solo exhibition of Konstantinos Tolis entitled “Metaihmio”.
Are we living acrobatic on a fine dividing line, but not a colored one? Of course. This, after all, is also reflected in the works of Tolis. All human activity is at the intersection of a real and a digital experience. In other words between the conscious existential world and the unconscious digital one. Just as it happens with the painting of Konstantinos: he creates painterly and at the same time illusory spaces, as the work emerges through a controlled color composition of today.
This balance between the virtual and non- virtual worlds is also underlined by the art historian Louiza Karapidakis, who is curating the exhibition: “After many years of immersion in the timeless course of the history of art and infinite technological tests, Konstantinos Tolis formulates in his works, with the general title “At the Interchange of Real and Digital Experience”, a postmodern neo- plasticism. The palimpsested surfaces of his painting, with their structured color intensities, rhythmic pulse and continuous sequences of absence – presence, shape and form, are possessed by a characteristic plasticity. It straddles between non- figurative and non- figurative with a composed abstract mood activating the basic virtues of plasticity, harmony and aesthetics. This last pictorial approach of his is a sensory experience and could be called “painting in the years of maturity”.
Konstantinos Tolis, therefore, paints with chilling precision and skill, turning a blind eye to any mechanical process. He reaches the most dynamic version of the color palette by spreading the color on smaller or larger surfaces sometimes solid and sometimes full of strictly vertical and horizontal lines or flexible wavy shapes.
After all, the artist himself claims that “the specific works are details from a wider picture of the world that I constructed in my mind, a mental construction”. And he continues “… To the extent that we are not able to control the larger picture of our reality holistically, we can only see fragments of it. Some snippets of the overall picture are shown here. Personal experience is the most powerful tool we can use to control the things that are being formulated around us.” Ultimately, Konstantinos’ works captivate the viewer because they almost equal the digital, virtual practice with real everyday. To what extent, however, this interaction can function complementary or catalytically in the very nature of man is a choice of each one.