{"id":1655,"date":"2017-01-08T15:29:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T13:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xonoglou.gr\/en\/kritikes\/"},"modified":"2022-05-21T17:14:47","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T14:14:47","slug":"reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.xonoglou.gr\/en\/reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sania Papa for the exhibition: “Democracy: A living word?\u201d<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
Category : <\/strong>2019<\/a>, Reviews<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\t<\/article>\n\n \t\n\t\n\t
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Letter of recommendation by Leo Castelli<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
Category : <\/strong>1991<\/a>, Reviews<\/a>, Uncategorized<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\t<\/article>\n\n \t\n\t\n\t
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Dimitris Xonoglou and the palimpsest function of art: an answer to three riddles<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
Category : <\/strong>2014<\/a>, Reviews<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\t<\/article>\n\n \t\n\t\n\t
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Miltiadis Papanikolaou for Dimitris Xonoglou<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
Category : <\/strong>2009<\/a>, Reviews<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\t<\/article>\n\n \t\n\t\n\t
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The Artist’s Home or the perpetual wanderings of his soul.<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
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Text by Katerina Koskina<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
Category : <\/strong>2005<\/a>, Reviews<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\t<\/article>\n\n \t\n\t\n\t
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TAKE, EAT…<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
Category : <\/strong>2004<\/a>, Reviews<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\t<\/article>\n\n \t\n\t\n\t
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Xonoglou’s alter ego – Exhibition of works from the period 1978-1985<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
Category : <\/strong>2000<\/a>, Reviews<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\t<\/article>\n\n \t\n\t\n\t
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The ballads of the challenge<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
Category : <\/strong>2000<\/a>, Reviews<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\t<\/article>\n\n \t\n\t\n\t
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Traces of a march<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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:...<\/div>
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Text by an unknown person for Dimitris Xonoglou<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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 –...<\/div>
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Dimitris Xonoglou – An attempt at interpretation of his work<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
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Review by Emmanuel Mavrommatis<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
Category : <\/strong>1992<\/a>, Reviews<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div> <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\t<\/article>\n\n \t\n\t\n\t
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Review by Miltiadis Papanikolaou<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
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Dimitris Xonoglou\u2019s painting<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
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Review by Harry Savvopoulos<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
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Review by Thalia Stefanidou – Dimitrakopoulou<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
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Dimitris Xonoglou – by Angela Tamvaki<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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....<\/div>
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Dimitris Xonoglou’s painting – From the pulse of the individual expression in the code of the new iconography<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
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A strong personal confession<\/a><\/h4>\n \n
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...<\/div>
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