By Sania Papa for the exhibition: “Democracy: A living word?”
Even in an a-poetic world, big questions do not cease to be raised at great moments Kostas Axelos The opening to the future and the enigma of art Against fixed...
Letter of recommendation by Leo Castelli
Nov. 13, 1991 To whom it may concern, I have looked at the work of Dimitris Xonoglou and have found it interesting. He seems to me to be a very...
Dimitris Xonoglou and the palimpsest function of art: an answer to three riddles
Undoubtedly, this exhibition at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki is a unique occasion. Part of its uniqueness lies of course in the fact that it presents the Derveni papyrus, the...
Miltiadis Papanikolaou for Dimitris Xonoglou
Dimitris Xonoglou is a painter with a long and fruitful tenure in the field of European artistic avant-garde, with academic studies in Italy at a time of heightened conceptualism, which...
The Artist’s Home or the perpetual wanderings of his soul.
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita.Dante, Divina Comedia, Inferno, Canto I, v. 1-3 What can we expect...
Text by Katerina Koskina
Dear Dimitris, Finally, I managed to “download” the photos you sent me, and I was truly astonished. I am sorry I had no chance to see your works personally, but...
TAKE, EAT…
The title of this exhibition is meant to imply the central, interactive role of art in our lives even on the primitive level of survival’ – and conversely the role...
Xonoglou’s alter ego – Exhibition of works from the period 1978-1985
This exhibition, entitled “Painting”, comes perhaps at the most appropriate moment of the artist’s course, which after 1985 left the two-dimensional frame and gradually expanded into space. Xonoglou is now...
The ballads of the challenge
The knowledge of D. Xonoglou and his sensitivity, allowed him to “paint” images in the space, borrowing materials and techniques from different moments in the history of art, remaining however...
Traces of a march
The painter is concerned – or at least should be concerned – just as much as the sculptor, the subject of space. Henry Moore Ikaditore est tradutorre traditore est tradi:...
Text by an unknown person for Dimitris Xonoglou
When the art of exhibitions has been for many years the main way of entertaining the impressions caused by the reproduction of images, repetitions, the merging of primary passion –...
Dimitris Xonoglou – An attempt at interpretation of his work
Whether the decline welcomes loneliness is not self-evident and vice versa. Loneliness is not a decline. It is the resistance to assimilation, the choice of contemplation in the face of...
Review by Emmanuel Mavrommatis
Dimitris Xonoglou works with materials that refer to general and at the same time decisive concepts: this is his work of recent years in which the always same and alternating...
Review by Miltiadis Papanikolaou
Dimitris Xonoglou’s ten year production in the field of neo-representational art was distinguished not only by his tendency to use shattered, transcendental, almost distorted forms, but also by his desire...
Dimitris Xonoglou’s painting
Both interpreters of dreams and psychoanalysts should be interested in the entirely personal mythology with which Dimitri Xonoglou started out. I have personally been interested in his work since his...
Review by Harry Savvopoulos
Despite the promises and aspirations for objectivity, modern art and today are distinguished by a deep subjectivity that enables them to be articulated in a space rooted in the experience...
Review by Thalia Stefanidou – Dimitrakopoulou
If we wanted to define the work of Dimitris Xonoglou in terms of aesthetic formalism, we would say that it belongs to the new documentary painting, the descendant of surrealism...
Dimitris Xonoglou – by Angela Tamvaki
It is well known that both expressionism and surrealism are experiencing a new boom nowadays with renewed forms and symbols enriched with new content. These two trends are not incompatible....
Dimitris Xonoglou’s painting – From the pulse of the individual expression in the code of the new iconography
The recent solo exhibition of paintings by Dimitris Xonoglou at the French Institute, confirmed our initial impression – which one of his works had caused in a group of 81...
A strong personal confession
When you come in visual contact with the paintings of Dimitris Xonoglou, for the first time, you have the feeling that you are attending a strong personal confession. Confession of...