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Giorgos Komninakis

The themes in George Komninakis’ paintings include the
decline and deconstruction of the values of a broken world,
the meaning of power (social, religious, political), immigration,
statues, flags and symbols charged with cultural and
social overtones, piled like garbage in the centre of destruction.
His works are structured with a reflective symmetry
that heightens the sense of despair and desolation; the
surrounding space falls apart, becomes a blur and rising
from the centre is the only figure that appears to be surviving:
the pile of ruins, people looking for another place,
stereotyped figures-symbols of power, the monuments that
have been erected in honour of the denial of hope and the
death of utopias. In this respect, Komninakis’ harsh postnuclear
landscape depicts the melancholy of a faith that
was betrayed and converted to rage.
The works of George Komninakis are the end result of a
process of transforming images, which are processed by
computer and provide the formative model for the final
artistic creation. The origin of the images is lost; all that
remains is the identifiable quality of the central symbol. In
a world that transfers the responsibility for the management
of its social and political relationships to stereotypical
images, the transition from the random collection of an
unlimited network of information to the structured work of
art is the only powerful act of aesthetic intervention and
political responsibility.

Theofilos Tramboulis

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