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Pavlos (Dionyssopoulos)
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description
- Pavlos (Dionyssopoulos)
- Flowers
- signed and dated 1998 lower right; signed twice and dated 98 on the reverse
- paper, wood and plexiglas
- 123 by 98 by 6.3cm., 48½ by 38½ by 2½in.
Provenance
Private Collection, Athens
Catalogue Note
Pavlos substitutes the brush and paint of the traditional medium of fine art for wall constructions and installations with narrow, machine-cut strips of magazines and posters as their foundation. These affiches massicotées create three-dimensional objects, contemporary still lifes in which the primary technical element is distorted and manipulated into a recognizable form constructed from an almost unrecognizable medium.
Pavlos maintains that posters, presented in profile, are much more expressive than they are when they are presented in flat form, and it is clear that the accretion of his strips of misprinted magazine pages yields a weight, volume and chromatic and material value that was limited in their previous state. Pavlos' time in Paris, through which he would strike up acquaintances with artists such as Calder, Giacometti and Dubuffet, would undoubtedly place him in the midst of a dialogue involving the use and expression of space, three-dimensionality and texture, as well as industrial mediums.
Pavlos maintains that posters, presented in profile, are much more expressive than they are when they are presented in flat form, and it is clear that the accretion of his strips of misprinted magazine pages yields a weight, volume and chromatic and material value that was limited in their previous state. Pavlos' time in Paris, through which he would strike up acquaintances with artists such as Calder, Giacometti and Dubuffet, would undoubtedly place him in the midst of a dialogue involving the use and expression of space, three-dimensionality and texture, as well as industrial mediums.