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APOSTOLOS KILESSOPOULOS |
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Cosmic Whirl |
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Whirl
1996-97 oil-threads-paper, 190 x 160 cm |
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| Suffice it to stress
once again the recurrence of the nude human form as a permanent object
of inquiry. Associated with it is an indefinable sensuality, or erotic
love, one might say, which is scattered and lost somewhere in the universe.
On the other hand, in a large part of the artist' s work the nude figure,
or figures as already noted, comes to express a threat of life itself.
This is because, although depicted as young and full of energy and
health, the figures appear to be in danger, not only from external destructive
forces, but also from the stigma of death, which they already carry within
themselves, as is clear from their mode of functioning within the composition.
Alkis Charalampidis
Professor of Art History University of Thessaloniki |
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