Memorandum
When I am asked to talk about my work, it is as if I am being asked to “abuse” it. No matter how flattering the texts of those who wrote...
Category : 2000, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
The Miracle of the Mediterranean
I always thought that this girl, Frida, was the archetype of Mediterranean women. A solitary, independent and self-contained marriage with universality, with ostensibly motley bridesmaids, which compose a diverse common...
Category : 2014, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
Cross
Two coexisting, visually identified archetypal symbols, defined by four antennas – receivers which form one of the symbols and at the same time signify the infinity of universal relations. The...
Category : 2014, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
Countless…
Thus begins the baby’s first cry when the guardian angel gently caresses his mouth and nose with his wings. As soon as the last tear from their son’s cheeks dried,...
Category : 2012, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
Going down the stairs with a sugar cube in hand
The one I do not like no matter how hard I try is Marcel Duchamp, he stuck a ragged bicycle wheel on a stool, he signed a urinal and since...
Category : 2011, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
Of education
Tintoretto wiped his dirty hands from the paint on a cloth, rinsed them with soap and oil, took one last look at the painting that had just finished “THE FLIGHT...
Category : 2011, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
My dear Xanthippi
I was not lucky enough to enjoy your creative presence at the School of Architecture, but I was given the opportunity to meet you at the place where you dedicate...
Category : 2011, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
“Slow down or tardi *”
I do not know if the cult of speed managed, with exceptions, to give us small or big moments from the ‘smell’ – essence of time – to be honest,...
Category : 2010, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
The boulevard of the bypass and the beer
Project materials: – Reeds from the banks of the Nile at the time when Pharaoh’s daughter found Moses in his basket in the river kennels; brought from her space trip...
Category : 2010, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
Goal. The liquidity strategy
Football is a process of easy religiosity of an infinite number of mass human beings, without the risk of challenging dogmas, without the risk of heresies. Football is a substitute...
Category : 2005, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
The black body
Vinia, on each rock gave the shape of a black woman. Then like a good witch after letting them play by staggering through the water, he collected them, dried them...
Category : 2002, Articles by Dimitris Xonoglou
For a reading above and below the surface
From 2009-2012 the artist Dimitris Xonoglou, professor at the School of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , once again, after an interval of many years, dives into ‘’pure...
Category : 2014, Interviews
When asked by a journalist “what is art”
Art is to open your fridge in order to drink a glass of water and a flock of colorful Guatemalan butterflies to flutter from inside, writing the word “good morning”...
Category : 2013, Interviews
A conversation with Antaios Chrysostomidis
I consider myself a painter of the human soul Dimitris Xonoglou – What were the dominant tendencies in art during your formative years? Whose child do you consider yourself to...
Category : 2013, Interviews