ΤΗΕ TEN RACERS (Racer 8) Print

ΤΗΕ TEN RACERS Ten wall hanging photos of long-distance racers that I noticed in an exhibit sponsored by the design school where I am currently working, were the inspiration of ten pencil drawings that eventually became ten paintings. The intensity of the competition as captured by the photographic lens with the contractions from the effort, the obvious fatigue and the alteration of the subjects, the variety of the forms and the plasticity of their expressions as well as the intense clothing coloration splashes created the basis for the aesthetic investigation. In the pencil drawings that I had consequently produced, the expressiveness of the figures was rendered with the coercion of lines, the osmosis of shadow and light, while in the paintings with the intensity and the dynamic contrast or the coexistence of colors.