Posts Tagged ‘Contemporary Greek art’
Vangelis Rinas, Greece: “The artist is born to suffer from incurable romance. No matter how hard reality becomes, he always believes that his work may change the world.”
“Don’t forget that we are born of the same land as Ulysses, made for travels and adventures, captains and fighters and explorers at the same time. Even when events don’t provoke us, we provoke events to happen. The artist, from wherever he comes, is born much like Ulysses.”
Read MoreThe Abstract Expressionism of Agapi Hatzi, Mathieu Fort, and Veronique Brosset
“Many countries’ prosperity is fictional and therefore fragile. So someone reasonably wonders if there is a room for art in this sad situation. I am going to answer that today, art’s presence is more essential than ever; we need to be transferred to a world of ideas and values, and art is the vehicle.
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