Artist's Words

"I can skip to gravure from painting, and to painting from gravure whenever I want. The contradiction, uncertainty and conversion elements that exist in my painting, are extensions of social settlement which we feel very strongly."

"Gravures and paintings, they are all designed and realized with their own sense, expression power and plastic data, and formed in intrinsic conditions, none of them sacrificed for another. Skipping to coloured painting from gravure is a result of continuity. Maybe the hard process in gravure and restriction in dimensions directed me to painting. I can say that my habits in gravure, like the act of figuration, domination on the material transformed in to a different organic integrity on painting-surface practice of the canvas. When the main attitude in the gravure and the linear, textual elements based on expression, meet with the richness of colour on the canvas, this can transform in to strong plastic data. In large dimensions, this excitement and enthusiasm transform in to a dynamic style and objectivize the spontaneous and mobile production adventure."

"Our art is a way for existence, learning and making life positive."

"The period following 1988 can be considered a new stage in my artistic career. The Abstractionist period that closed with "Pierro's Double Portrait" represents, together with "Opus 89" (200x150cm) and others, an abstractionistic and expressionistic approach. The characteristic features of this period are vertical and large dimensions, open forms and color dominance. Both the paintings and the engravings contain a wide-angled approach, open form, antagonism, activated physical and mental integrity, indeterminant plastic organization and structuralism, all of which lead to the creation of unique values. Hence the resulting aesthetical unity achieved in the "Opus" series, or in the abstract compositions entitled "The Secrets of the Garden of Zen"."

"Reflecting and describing what is seen occupies a minór place in my paintings. This is due to my understanding that the act of reflecting and representing became old-fashioned long ago with the coming of photography. What is important for me is interpretation and analytical approach. Hence is the reorganization of form and space and the skill of deformation. The act of abstractionism is the basis for pictorial creation. Creativity goes from one extreme to the other. The one that arises from nothing is a completely new mental proposal. The independence of artistic activity is the effort to analyze and uncover a resisting, questioning, universal and humane truth. And this truth can be reached only through pictorial form, sensitivity and aesthetical order. Art, in one sense, is a standing against eternity and death, a defence against negation, violence and ugliness .. Art is a scream against all these. An artwork or an artist are eternal beings and records, only varying in time and place, but never to be purchased by anybody."