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Antonis Tsakiris (Greek, born 1970) (AR)

Antonis Tsakiris (Greek, born 1970), untitled, 2012, oil on canvas, 119,5 x 99,5 cm. Antonis Tsakiris was born in Athens in 1970. In 1996 he graduated from the German School of Applied Graphic Arts and Design - Athens branch (Gebrauchgraphik der Akademie fuer das Graphische Gewerbe in Muenchen, Athen) under Professor Fritz Ludtke. Some of his works are included in private collections in Greece and abroad.(Frissiras Collection, Dakis Ioannou Collection). Tsakiris chooses to work in a variety of visual idioms, focusing primarily on a representational style, which he offers us in a complex and personal manner. The themes of his recent group of paintings concern the teeming urban landscape and its labyrinthine movements to and fro. The painter conveys to his audience a mosaic of images. Each image seems to penetrate the other, thereby creating a collage of densities, and above all the dynamic tensions of a multilateral space of varied rhythms that plays host to the individual solitudes that make up the diverse organism of a modern city. Reality is translated into its multiple anxieties for life. What is more, senses and impressions, truth and deception, bring this reality onto the same level as the imaginary, emerging through TV screens, and photographic scenes, as, blended together, they cross into the subconscious, giving shape to the landscapes within our minds. Athena Schina, Art Historian