Tell us what you do and your beginnings.
I have been dreaming since I remember myself as a painter. I grew up in the country side of Greece—in Thessaly—and I was united with nature. I felt free and part of an eternal delightful paradise and treasure, and this is a motive that influences me in my life and actions. This magnetic field of treasuring and regaining the vision of a mythical world is a nonstop stimulus in my adult view.
On the other hand, I have an entire childhood and adolescence worth of questions considering the unfair suffering of the people, victims of wrong politics.
This basic contradiction has become a parallel and complicated motivation for my creativity.
What does your work aim to say?
My work is a metaphor, an allegoric vision of regaining the fallen and forgotten Ideas, a mythical vocabulary of regeneration of the hidden beauty, a palimpsest of fragments of the historical achievements projected to the future, a thread of Ariadne to get out, to escape of the Labyrinth, of the Matrix, of the vivid virtual reality, an ontological perspective to the inner and the outer world, a philosophical message of the real important, a remembrance activity, a political reflection from the micro history to the History. I name it Palingenesis.
I do the painting because I believe in the body action and I know that painting encapsulates space and time- Spacetime- as magically and mystically, can include the fourth dimension and this is almost metaphysics, an aura of Mystery. An initiation of rethinking Liberty and salvation. Sacred forests and trees, heads of gods, broken dreams, fallen statues of a glorious time, emblematic symbols of Democracy, Aenigma for the future.
Where do you find inspiration for your art?
In vivid History, the crisis of Humanity, the unfair wars, the politics, the genocides, the suffering of the people, the prayer, in the History as part of consciousness and unconsciousness and the DND memory, in masterpieces of Art, in the human stories, in the hidden beauty, in Greek Light, in Mythology and its symbolism, in Philosophy, in love and compassion, in the theory of Archetypes of Carl Young, in Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, in L’Homme Revolte by Albert Camus, in everyday eternal moment, in Beauty, in innocence, in Aegean Sea, in alternation, etc.
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