Dionyssopoulos Pavlos (1930-2019)

Shirts, before 1981. Affiches massicotees, 96 x 80 cm.

Although his quests are akin to those of neo-realists, pop artists, and returnees, Pavlos Dionyssopoulos never joined any of these movements. He created his first works with cut magazine papers and then he was fascinated by the size and colours of the posters of the streets of Paris and the metro and also discovers the basic building material of his works. Moreover, in 19965, elaborating on the original idea, he proceeded to a second stage of its development: in a curvilinear, wavy "baroque" organisation, with a strong element of movement, accompanied by greater colour. Then, through the folds of the paper, the first pictorial patterns began to take shape. Consumer goods and everyday objects, flowers and trees, initially magnified with a mood of gigantism, are trapped in plexiglass sheets, isolated from their environment and function.The obsession with specific subjects, the craft character with the delicate, complex and elaborate combinations of the paper, the plasticity and the rich colour that results from the material itself become the main characteristics of his work. His works go beyond simple realistic recording, capturing the "idea" of objects, poetic aspects of everyday life and nature exude vitality, approaching versions of truth and becoming symbols.