Released on: May 5, 2008, 7:19 am

Press Release Author: Dionisis Christofilogiannis

Industry: Media

Press Release Summary: Opening 19th of May 2008
7:00 pm


Press Release Body: Al1 = ALONE


During the last decade the emphasis has been shifted from the narrow prospect of
morphological analysis to the social dimension of existence. The younger painters do
not just rely on the fact that they are good craftsmen of the canvas and the
recognition of their poetic gadfly is not enough for them. Integrated in the
applications and possibilities of the information technologies are seeking to find
the most suitable position for them.


Dionisis Christofilogiannis not by chance touches the reflections of a world society
that changes radically and leaves rapidly behind the experiences and the way of life
of our parents. Rammed in the reflections of online art with social face he focuses
in moments of individuality and public behavior. His images are dynamic. Each
painting gives the impression of a frozen snapshot of an amateur video immersed in
gray. Each painting is like a public statement on terrorism, surveillance of the
citizens, rappers, minorities, sexuality and loneliness.



Christofilogiannis belongs to a generation of painters that was kneaded with the
virtual reality and accentuated its conscience contemplating in the possibilities of
the Information Societies. A huge appetite for action and exploration prompts him to
make a series of painted images of social reflection for public consumption and
correspondence. On his canvas, sentiment, ethics, justice and metaphysics they
engage and redistribute the environment of humans and digital machines. He knows
that conflict games bring new persons in the limelight with new tactics that they do
not leave any more a lot of space to the distress of Cezzane, the personal art of
Picasso, in Rauschenberg's experimental, in the frozen art of Warhol, in the
provocative art of Jeff Koons.




Even the most recent art looks exceptionally distant. From a psychological point of
view the painting of Christofilogiannis reflects the psychology of a generation of
painters which they do not confirm their existence through old standards and neither
simply paint in order to give aesthetic enjoyment. Being permanently connected with
the phenomena of Information Technology Market are motivated via the painted image
in order to determine the consequences emerging from the management of information
in each one of us individually and in the relationships among the people. Through
this prism, each painting of Christofilogiannis constitutes a reliable picture of
social experience, an optical comment to the new model of life in which while the
technology creates virtual bridges of communication between people, makes them at
the same time schizophrenically individualists.




Art does not play any more with the structure of the picture because the artists
play with the structures of the Information Technology Market. Finally, let's
consider that the new images differ so much from the old ones because they ceased to
imply and the artist stopped to confess. In the new images the objective observation
has replaced the personal hint and the scientific interpretation has replaced the
individual illusions. Christofilogiannis answers with a series of works that records
the dreary version of this era through genuine stories and real events in order to
raise a voice of alert: Al1 = ALONE.


If the internet and the television replaced the painters of Renaissance in inflating
the importance of an event against the society, the paintings of Christofilogiannis
highlight the voids of cable narration. His painting does not create a tattoo in the
social reality. He seeks to exorcise the atonal human loneliness through the
unanticipated experience that is found in the streets. Atonal is the loneliness that
does not smell the reality. Atonal is the loneliness of info-communication. The
selective episodes that he painted as well as the texts that describe them may not
modify the real images however Christofilogiannis threw the seed of doubt in the
atonia of the information.

Γιάννης
Κολοκοτρώνης
Yannis Kolokotronis


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