2006 Participating Artists > Stergios Stamos

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Stergios Stamos was born in Greece in 1984. He is graduate of the School of Fine Arts of Thessalonika (V. Dimitreas workshop) 1984-1989. He illustrates a text of feelings, which he refuses to depict. Thus, the feelings bear particles of a secret referring the spectator to the nature of a ritual. There is a text, which is usually impossible to read, since it is used as part of the structure, thus losing its objective of existence. It is transformed, into part of the painting, the image, which in turn expresses the emotions raised through reading. The existence of written speech creates a special sentimental charge, hence the viewer has to "read" the text through the image. The text is encountered as a figure embodied in a wider painting structure losing the faculty of narration, since the reader cannot read it... His non-pictures resemble music without lyrics; they thrive on silence, on the absence of representation. Communication, which is a chaotic game of fragile balance in Stamos' painting, is uneasily achieved through methodical classification. In other words, a solidly structured alphabet without an image structured. The painful tracing converts obsession into passion, an odd magic ritual serving the laws of logic. In those quests, which retain their introverted ascetic character, color attacks, withdraws or defends itself, uncovers or covers the surface: there are traces, traces, scratches, half-erased writings, transparencies, which alter the color they hide, having sealed it with covering tape. The plastic writing is plain still passionate, taciturn, yet wide. sculptured when it decides to explode, passionate, taciturn, yet wise, sculptured when it decides lo explode, colorful at the decisive moment. The tension of the battle along with the infinite movement of the composition give out a feeling that everything occurs between love and death, inside the choreography of a black, fluid, expressionist painting which hides the certainty and curiosity of youth. H. Karaindrou |