Demosthenis Kolokasidis
Demosthenis Kolokasidis was born in Athens where he lived during his childhood and then he returned with his family in Cyprus. After his graduation from the Lyceum he continued his studies in Switzerland and then in England where he graduated from the Faculty of Good Arts of Bristol and did postgraduate studies in typography.
Dr Natia Anaxagorou comments about his work:
"Innovative and inventive, playful and brilliant, the creations of Demosthenes Kolokasidis, constitute a challenge for redefinition of borders that separate precious from cheap, tasteful from kitsch, referring with clarity to the sphere of pop-art.
His creations constitute at the same time an open invitation in a fascinating, but mainly subversive travel with Alice in the Wonderland, there where the rules of logic are abolished, there where dream-like associations take shape - often like a heart - in the ductile material of latex, which like a colourful chewing gum of the childhood, inscribes in its tender and flexible texture, memories of innocence, hearty love and warmth, springing from the bottomless depths of existence.
In a totally liberating psychoanalytic dive out tesseras, shells, fossils and pebbles, jewels, genuine and false, half precious gems and pearls, little toys and small articles, ribbons and feathers, that all together take you off in his refreshing light blue ether baptizing you in the purgatory blue and merciful coral of the bottom of the sea.
This riff-raff of nature’s and industrialisation’s components, parade in quick rythms of a permanent and endless, almost like a movie succession of pictures in plastic orange-red, pink, yellow, green and mauve glistening backgrounds, that act catalytically linking heterogeneous and varied in the modern era of advertisement and over-consumption.
In a transcendence beyond good and bad, beyond beautiful and ugly, the artist finally manages to transform the fake, flashy surfaces in recipes for a therapeutic colour-therapy proposing a brand new view of the colourless reality, a re-invention of the odourless and dull everyday routine, diffusing vibrations of well-being, optimism, hope and exaltation of thanks and gratitude for the big gift of life."
Exhibition opens on April 13 at 19:30.
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Tuesday – Friday: 10:00 – 13:00 & 16:30 - 19:00
Monday & Saturday: 10:00 – 13:00
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