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APOSTOLOS KILESSOPOULOS |
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The questioning number Eight |
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questioning number Eight
2000 construction, wire, 100 x 90 x 70 cm |
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| The balanced development
of the forms turn the painted surface into an area where forces move in
all directions. Here we have all manner of shapes which move, are transformed,
recede towards the background, or approach the surface, so new worlds
are created before our very eyes. An infinite number of tones are integrated
into the painting through the introduction of calligraphic formulae which
add new dimensions. Free motifs and curvilinear shapes, dynamic diagonal
elements and linear features, large and small surfaces, masses of colour
and small patches all create a space which expands, metamorphoses, and
changes. As George Mourelos has already pointed out, the works are at times
reminiscent of celestial nebulae and at others of something from the bottom
of the sea. They are, nevertheless, open to expressive interpretation,
essentially because space in Kilessopoulos' works has nothing to do with
the natural space familiar to us all: it is an internal and purely pictorial
space invigorated by the movement of the forms and the dynamic colours,
which often function like electric discharges.
Crysanthos Christou
Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at the University of Athens Academician |
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