"Memory" Painting

In regards to the artwork of Apostolis Itskoudis, the Art Theorist and curator Domna Chanoumidou emphasises on the following: “Encompassing gracefulness so obvious in gesture and striking in colour, this gossamer artwork, veils artistically sewn together submerged in the canvas spurting scattered intense colour stains, the portraits by Apostolis Itskoudis, emerge nostalgically through the glimmer of the past like the remnants of another life, posing as memories of a world that once existed and as lost images of another era. These are familiar yet unknown faces, resembling those of relatives and friends framed in old black and white or faded photographs being stored away in the drawers of the collective subconsciousness of a generation characterised by skilfulness and maximised familiarity in manipulating the – ephemeral and artificial in its core- contemporary digital image. The artistic process explicitly centre stages the faces depicted in the work of Apostolis Itskoudis as returning to discover their place in the modern world, expressed as his own redefined first-hand narrative as a dialogue and an encounter”.