Eggonopoulos’s work continues to upset modern man, with his intensity, irony, humor, freedom and unconventionality, underlined the President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou inaugurating tonight at Vassilis and Marina Theocharaki Foundation for Fine Arts and Music the report “Nikos Eggonopoulos. The Orpheus of Surrealism “.
The Lady Sakellaropoulou He pointed out that “colors and words have always been the raw material of his dreams, his works, his intellectual heritage. Even if he wanted to be characterized first as a painter and then as a poet. We will always remember him with both his qualities and we will honor him as a leading Greek creator who associated the spirit and challenges of modernism with the colors, words and legends of our popular tradition, with the ancient and Byzantine culture, approaching with a new look the old things, with a new look the old myths “.
Referring to 148 and more valuable works of Nikos Eggonopouloswhich are exhibited for the first time together at the Vassilis and Marina Theocharakis Foundation for Visual Arts and Music, underlined that “they compose the painter’s completely special visual universe, starring his well-known straightforward and curvilinear figures, national heroes “.
However, he noted that exhibition focuses mainly on the works inspired by the myth of Orpheus, a dominant myth and on his poetic work and observed that “the reference is clear, specific. “Orpheus has lost his Eurydice and is mourning her.” In this context, he argued that “studies in loss could be characterized by the thirteen evocative paintings of the exhibition with an Orphic theme, created from 1938 onwards, and at the same time artistic conversations of the poet with his Muse, where the poet is reduced to the archetypal model. of Orpheus and Musa in the equivalent of Eurydice. At the same time, however, we could see them as a desperate attempt to reconcile with the inevitable, mortality, the spectrum of annihilation, especially when death becomes a daily condition, as in the years of occupation and civil war. “
He also reminded that his seduction painting of Eggonopoulos is large, its symbolism is multidimensional, his references, from Dominic Theotokopoulos to De Chirico, Rene Magritte and Max Ernst, are dense. “Even if one does not distinguish them, however, he is fascinated by the power of colors, the metaphysical atmosphere, the way in which the human form is rendered, not complete and complete, but faceless, mutilated, distorted, transformed into an idol, a remnant of violent changes in history, “the President added.
In conclusion, he congratulated the inspirers and the curators of the exhibition, as well as the hospitable Theocharakis Foundation for its contribution to the cultural life of our place.
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