Untitled Painting

Aimy Palogiannidou was born in 1981 in Athens. In 2009 she graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts and took a BA Painting degree with great honor. In 2011 she graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London where she obtained her MA Fine Art degree. From 2012 to 2015 she worked at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Now she is travelling the world on a sailing boat while she continues her art career. ‘During my 6 months stay in Rotterdam and my frequent trips to London, New York and other European cities during the years 2006-2009, I was inspired by the urban environments and their architectural development and I tried to depict the world's constant transformation. There was a natural progress in my paintings. Starting with the traditional medium of oil on canvas, the shapes themselves led me to the use of industrial materials such as metal, wood and plexiglas. I was led to the creation of ‘constructional paintings’ where objects and forms extend beyond the frame limits and the materials are spread into space. In my works I flirt with sculpture and three dimensions however, I consider painting as being behind every visual expression. My influences essentially came from Constructivism, the art of De Stijl and the school of Bauhaus. This series of constructional paintings emphasizes the elements of construction, materiality and geometrical design. The shapes, architecturally structured, the industrial materials and the flat surfaces imply a strictly formed world. The expressive forms meet the geometric drawing as two opposite states. I observe the geometric solid shapes of the architectural urban structure and on the other hand, I’m interested in the existence of the disordered human masses that circulate in the city. My research focuses on how these two states of order and disorder, determinism and chance, solid and fluid, rigid and kinetic, shaped and shapeless are mixed, intertwine together and result in a harmonic and fruitful relationship, which is the driving force for the life of this mechanism. When I moved to London in 2010 my inspiration continued to source from the city’s environment and my research was concentrated around the concept of urbanism. My main interest concerns space, architecture and city structure in close relation to the human element. My questions examine the influence of space on the psychology and emotions of people through a sound journey.