WAVE 5 Painting

Nikos Kryonidis was born in Xanthi, a small and picturesque town of North Greece at 1963. He graduated from the School of Architecture of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He realized many solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. His works are found in the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki , the American College of Greece in Athens and in private collections. Nikos Kryonidis handles the material aspect of his painting through gesture, material and automatic script. His work reveals itself to us at first glanceas closed and hermetic, while on a second level each form and shape, each gesture determinesits special identity, guiding our interpretation of the signifiers in time and space. Perpetually moving gestural actions as exercises in self-analysis ( spteading the paint, covering the surface, writing, colouring, etcing, erasing, linking and blending) are conveyed as textural shapes enriched with subterranean meanings of intuitive vision.Traces as intimation, indication and implication encounter the recurrent coloured gestural games of line and script (use of fingers to apply paint). This obsessive energy in motion and colour continually transforms the initial , static design, activating the white surface of the paper or canvas.''Unparalleled take-off and flight. At the moment the vast, unanswerable void of the world is dismembered and given form'' N.K.