{"id":5506,"date":"2017-04-28T15:44:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ikastikos-kiklos.com\/?p=5506\/"},"modified":"2019-06-21T22:32:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T19:32:56","slug":"game-senses-konstantinos-tolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikastikos-kiklos.com\/en\/game-senses-konstantinos-tolis\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Game of the Senses\u201d by Konstantinos Tolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Personal exhibition by Konstantinos Tolis at the Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti Gallery
\nTitle: \u201cA Game of the Senses\u201d
\nDuration: May 11, 2017 \u2013 June 3, 2017
\nOpening: May 11, 2017 19:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, 11 May 2017, at 19:00 p.m., Konstantinos Tolis welcomes us at the Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti Gallery, to \u201cA Game of the Senses\u201d, presenting his new work, through which he aspires to approach the never-ending circle of life.<\/p>\n

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Konstantinos Tolis uses as his raw material, painted images derived from his previous work, which contained various stimuli and reflections on everyday life and the current political and cultural circumstances, based on a personal sense of past experience, in the form of condensed moments.
\nThe visual artist approaches these images as individual entities, like cells or planets reproducing
\nbefore his eyes, constantly mutating in an endless flow, resembling the energy-matter of the universe.
\nHe uses shapes, lines and spots of color on two-dimensional canvasses, where he creates both
\ndepicted and illusionary spaces. The work takes its form somewhere between consciousness and sub-consciousness, verging towards a controlled and yet unpredictable conclusion, as it seeks for this
\nsurprising moment that would lead to its completion on the canvas. It depicts questions and situations
\nof our time, aiming at a conscious understanding of the world, constantly searching for archetypes.<\/p>\n

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Manos Stefanides writes: \u201cKonstantinos Tolis\u2019 paintings stand between an intrinsic, yet not easy,
\ndecorativeness and a tendency to challenge all dominant clich\u00e9s, graphics and easily assimilated structures of the geometrical form. Tolis\u2019 paintings, being so exhaustively designed, have the luxury of standing seemingly motionless, while a tempest is raging in the inside. Those are the landscapes of
\nthe soul and desire I suggested earlier. He ends up as a \u201ctranquil\u201d expressionist, by choosing the most
\npeculiar path, following the most personal and \u201cexplosive\u201d expressionism \u2013 bringing in mind the way
\nthe historian Thucydides \u201ccalmly declared himself an atheist\u201d, although he kept fighting with the meta-physical – laws of the dark goddess History and the unbeatable fate of men… This characteristic feature rises from the defiance of all established \u201cnorms\u201d, giving his already particular style, a very
\ninteresting, non-artisanal feeling, as if his works were created electronically… They are images that
\nshape us from within, if you understand what I mean. In conclusion, I would like to stress the fact that Konstantinos Tolis promotes an idea I always believed myself: that painting has always had one and
\nonly one mission, to color the invisible before the eyes of men\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He was born in Ioannina, in 1966. He lives and works in Athens. He studied at the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the A.U.T., Department of Painting, under professor Vangelis Dimitreas. He has traveled all around Europe and America, in order to become personal acquainted with all the great masterpieces he always admired. He was most impressed by his journey to New York, in 2004. He has been greatly influenced by the Meta-Painting Abstraction of 1960 and the Neo-Abstraction of 1980, as well as painters such as Frank Stella and Sean Scully, as well as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jasper Johns and David Hockney. Since 1991, he has presented 24 personal and has participated in many group exhibitions. His works can be found in private and public collections.<\/p>\n

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