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Municipal Art Gallery of
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a world made of tears By Manos Doukas Art Historian [...] o what is painting’s fault?  |
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Painting is not to blame at all. Not honest painting. To put it in Spartalis’ language, if a modern Van Gogh were to do only ‘artistic performances’, he would be as unjust to himself as a Da Vinci who would add a moustache to Mona Lisa (Duchamp is granted the right to). What can art be other than communicating vessels of expressive mediums and a fruitful dialogue within a frame of liberty? Maybe one eye needs to cry so the other can see… […] Angelos Spartalis made a film about tears that feels like a song. A film
in which the only one who really cries on the screen is his new-born daughter (we cry when
we are born, not when we die). Among the people of the artist’s immediate environment we
also find Alexis Politis and Nikos Koundouros, and they all talk successively about tears:
when do we cry, how do we cry, when did we last cry? The camera focuses on the people’s
eyes, as if to state the most important thing: no tear can move us unless we have
previously been moved by the eyes. This is exactly why Spartalis will paint his heroes
with a personal expressionism - that of consent, of an adventurous but not loud-mouth
surface (portions of which he ‘uplifts’ with cement), making use of various elements,
from the French Fauves to the recent German Neuwilde. With these portraits he returns to
figurative painting, through which he obviously has a lot more to tell. full
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 more info ..........> the movie "A WORLD MADE OF TEARS"
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