Yiannis Psychopedis (1945-)

Another significant painter of this generation, who lives and exhibits in Greece and West Germany, belongs to the same realist movements and with a specific intellectual education Psychopedis later combines social criticism with the criticism of the perception of art and aesthetic, confronting scenes of human suffering with pictures taken from popular painting techniques. In Nude Portrait the other painting of his which hangs in the Gallery, the realistic picture has been reconstructed with then pencil lines and polaroid photographs as a base. Here, Psychopedis reminds that nowadays even our personal moments are listed in us as if made of the dots in a photograph: our glance, during the years of visual communication has been changed into photographic.

copyright 1996-97