Whether the decline welcomes loneliness is not self-evident and vice versa. Loneliness is not a decline.<\/p>\n
It is the resistance to assimilation, the choice of contemplation in the face of the dilemma: freedom from death or the decline of the end, that is, belief in values and a return to history or submission to them and a fall into the irrationality of routine.<\/p>\n
In the sorrows of the new, when the figures of the old are still written around everywhere, the perfect overthrow of all the values that we just call life, has not yet taken place. Life has not begun, since death did not come. It is the age of loneliness that resists assimilation. These are the days when the prophet W. Tatlin dreamed and made his dream come true, it is the time when Beuys’s despair locked him in the cage with the coyote, it is the time when man imagines his God without human immortality .<\/p>\n
Dimitris Xonoglou chooses the drama of loneliness and the infinite, from the tragedy of loneliness that sums up time and the endless in a unique moment, the expression of the unity of time.<\/p>\n
He chooses the drama of the vast and the ubiquitous absolute.<\/p>\n
Because the drama of loneliness must express the timelessness of time. It fulfills all the requirements of the unit by concentrating the before, the present and the after, on the ladder of undisturbed calm.<\/p>\n
The unity of time, however, is a metaphysical request. Probably and paradoxically, since the only way in this is the way of the circle, ie a contradiction in its very essence.<\/p>\n
Its stairs and wheels are an attempt at a rational formulation of the mystical unity of time. A time that moves parabolic on the edge of the real, in the dunes of the desert and in the loneliness of the traveler.<\/p>\n
The artist’s stairs are a necessity and a request. Is it a way of ascension, a hint of departure or is a utopia, the incompatibility of every lover of life?<\/p>\n
They have air-based foundations or they have an unstable balance.<\/p>\n
They lift you into the void but trap you on the descent.<\/p>\n
The utopia of the artist cannot be fulfilled because this will automatically lead to its cancellation.<\/p>\n
What is fulfilled is the illusion, the fata morgana of the desert, of potential life to death in the temple of eternal radiance.<\/p>\n
Gold is eternal, and the burnt leftovers are the circle of life.<\/p>\n
Tangible proof of the abolition of the limits, since with the fall of the matter the new beginning is indicated.<\/p>\n
The inner need of the moment is transformed into external truth, into the brutality of consciousness.<\/p>\n
Last exaltation of loneliness.<\/p>\n
Dimitris Xonoglou belongs to the artists of modern Greek art who sought with their work the utterance of the experiential coincidences of the collective with the personal.<\/p>\n
It belongs to those artists whose work is the diagonal of their life and passions.<\/p>\n
To those who, torn between truth and paradox, express the opposition to the redemption of the moment that the genesis of a work will give them, that is, the enslavement of the paradox to the truth.<\/p>\n
Dimitris Xonoglou belongs to the generation of contemporary Greek artists that tried to capture the world as a whole and realize in art what could be realized from this paradoxical symphony.<\/p>\n
To the generation that, according to all indications, builds the image of contemporary Greek art.<\/p>\n
Thessaloniki, Autumn ’93<\/strong><\/p>\n Harris Savvopoulos<\/strong><\/p>\n Art critic<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[334,326],"tags":[313],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-334","category-reviews","tag-harris-savvopoulos"],"yoast_head":"\n