PAINTINGS 1982/2007

Paintings 1982/2007, oil, acrylic, color water, pen, carbon on paper and print paper, variable dimensions, 1536 paintings, 1982/2007, courtesy of the artist

Another important aspect of my work is various dimensions that are offered by painting. After I finished the high school for painting in 1996, I didn’t paint that much, and only during 2006 started to recycle all my paintings that I stored during my child years till ’90. This recycling consists in grouping hundreds paintings and simple drawings, above which I write various English words taken from the dictionary. This pertains to the older cycle, meanwhile above the infantile paintings I have written passages from Artaud’s “ Per fare finire con il gudicio di dio”. This duality is not casual in this cycle. It reflects about the duality that goes through all my work, which is segregated in two main opposite directions, at least compared with the linguistic which is very important in the work. However that which determines and creates the unification of the artwork is its context. Many can paraphrase this duality, remembering the way Douglas Gordon works, and the philosophical specification of duality or the double phenomenon, that ancient greeks determined it as a discrepancy of the character, a state which causes psychic anomaly or to put it another way; the schizophrenia of being. In my work both assumptions stay out of the scope of my projects. Personally I approve that “no man is an island” and everything is created on the duality ratio. Even when we have to do with a case of extreme individuality, the second voice breaks the silence creating the duality of being.