ΤυπÏŽματα/ Prints/ Drücke
2013-2016
ΤυπÏŽματα/ Prints/ Drücke
2013-2016
ΤυπÏŽματα/ Prints/ Drücke
2013-2016
ΤυπÏŽματα/ Prints/ Drücke
2013-2016
Statements, texts and thoughts derived from personal diaries and simple notes
Thomas Lioutas on P.Katsios
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The work of Panagiotis Katsios is a multifaceted reflection of reality and dreams, echoing personal experiences in a way which is holistic and not detached from the life of any viewer. The bleak imagery of the mundane trip to work, a daily experience for almost every person around the world, is a remembrance of the landscape that surrounds us. This landscape is a unique “buffer-zone”, the zone existing in between work and personal space, a landscape that we witness almost daily, but we rarely have the time, or mood, to actually focus on it and try to discover points of interest.
In a similar manner, the paintings created during the last years can have a very intimate connection with any viewer, due to their intensely chromatic nature and the choice of scale which is really friendly in terms of size. These are not monumental pieces of art that can intimidate the viewer, but act like smaller blocks of thought confined on paper. These thoughts are much more surreal in nature compared to the intensely realistic photographs, but almost always retain a reference to the human existence and our world, creating connections with the viewer, who can understand the underlying themes that exist and many times feel at home but also extremely exposed, like when discussing with your own self.
Thomas Lioutas, MA Culture & Communication
06.2021
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On the collaboration between P.Katsios and D.Bogiatzis
Distinctness is the collaborative printmaking work made by the artists Panagiotis Katsios and Dimosthenis Bogiatzis in the years 2014 and 2015 during their studies.
The basic concept of this body of work is neither bound to the abstraction of it nor an effort for balanced harmonious images, but to the battle between the two artists. Write and erase, create and destroy - a freedom without any boundaries that they gave one another.
The images are the remnants and traces of this mutual exchange, and were made without a preconceived composition or thematic. The surprise that came with each and every one of them was unprecedented and inspirational - a revelation, marking a truly decisive moment for both.
The elements of surprise and chance occupy both artists still to this day and are an integral part of Printmaking as an art-form with which most printmakers can identify themselves. The black and white aesthetic of the prints and the technique of etching document this experience in the best way.
As the artists wrote right after finishing the series, ´´ The boundaries between individuality and collectivity are blurred and neutralized ´´.
The so-called statement of the artist
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My work is based on my immediate environment, on ideas and beliefs formed during everyday life, my view of art history, art theory and on my personal ambitions...
Throughout the years I have made reference to the subjects of seeing, writing in pictures as well as to artists and themes of the past. Gestural drawing, working from life as well as from memory or imagination are equally commonplace.
Becoming a worker after migrating, and thus part of a new world with different concerns and interests, gave my work a push in a new direction.
My motifs depend on personal experience and are characterized by the effort to find pictorial solutions to everyday problems and misery.
In Orbit
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There is no true timeline to be followed... Everything returns. To my mind, the work one creates is virtually, one and only. Every new cycle adds a new form to that greater inseparable whole. Thus, creating is in my view a process of redescovering or reimagining oneself. To put it shortly, I maintain my interest on most subjects, revisiting, reanalyzing and reevaluating them- repositioning myself against my past. A continual coming and going without a foreseeable end.
