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 – feeling, emotion, photography and representations, a new reality is trapped in the work of Dimitris Xonoglou.
Burnt books, book scraps, melted wax, charcoal, gold leaf, frescoes, designs with subdued lines enter into an unexpected technical invention, arbitrarily chosen, not by chance but a continuation of a work that cannot be avoided or ignored but which can be an emotional and logical sequence.
Impression intervenes only in the initial stage of the first – visual – contact, a new story liberates the other senses, reality becomes “visible” and readable, in the whole aesthetic impression, it seems indestructible, protected, universalis, the first suspicions are mobilized for the project implementation processes and the experiential reflections.
DESERT POINT
The resulting new treaty will be observed in time, and will be paid empirically, as a contract with the Foreign Legion, dangerous, self-destructive but accessible. Conscious thinking in no way submits the work to conventional ideas about art, so that if D.X. he did not exist, we should definitely discover him.
The abstraction is usually liked because it is not hard for the viewer, but here the course is similar to that of a razor, it is realized later by the internal bleeding caused by the imprisonment of reality, the ladder in the sky that is self-adhesive, its weight an iron ball that blocks the ascension, the image that becomes raw, the brilliance of the torturing materials, like the golden plow on the black background of the shield of Achilles.
HOME PLEASURE
It is an art not only for “appearing”, it produces knowledge through familiarity, it emphasizes that day and night are only two sides of the same coin, admiration is produced by both pleasure and cognitive value, almost a second Aristotelian essence. The artist’s desert is familiar within the individual, it subjects the secondary quality, the neutral titles help the personal expression, they maintain anonymity.
TATTOO
And yet the creator prefers to be in the desert, sure that he will escape, having an orthodox faith, a fear of idolatry and succumbing to the lure of bliss, he prefers martyrdom to annihilation as a true exponent of the true human soul that opposes sacrifice and sacrifice. tragedy, knowing full well that the “dust” of the desert is the most unchanging element since the time of Genesis.
THE REDEMPTION
The moment of culmination in the work of Dimitris Xonoglou comes with the recognition of the work, the position of the spectator is now on stage and his art introduces the idea in the form so that the surrounding conditions are not capable and necessary but simply sufficient, while in the mind that forthcoming labyrinth with the wax monsters of Revelation and the golden coordinates – compasses leading us to a new Cosmogony.
1993
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