The Fifth Element Print

ABOUT THE ARTIST Stefanos Folinas is a Greek artist living in Trikala, Greece. Since 2014, he has successfully taught himself different artistic methods. Through his work as a cartographer and hints of abstraction, he was able to develop his native figurative paintings. CURATOR'S NOTE «The paintings by Stefanos Folinaς, with the intense color palette and the almost flat representations emerge from the primordial memory, ancestral stories. As frescoes early in caves, the artist skillfully creates imaginary worlds of primitive civilization that narrate in a simple but essential way that the primitive man imprinted with rough characteristics and natural materials to testify before even writing is such an instrument. However, what raises reasonable questions and concerns is not the very choice of the subject of representation, but the fact that in the information age and the incredible range of technological means and their immediate availability, the artist chooses to look at the very distant past humanity and early culture, to make a big flash back to deepen into what perhaps modern man and especially contemporary artist often tends to forget about possibly chasing a future uncertain or just rationalizing the artistic nature itself. So he chooses to attribute the essence of human creative existence, free from ornate pictorial motifs, and stylistic tricks. It revives what was first-but not the primary material, but the primary emotion. Because, behind the flat-faced, this statement is precisely the manifestation: the art in every appearance of it from the early years of mankind was and is initially an instinct, an inbred inner guide to the survival of the soul, its liberation, her. It is the need to deposit pure emotion before it passes through the neurons in the brain and rationalizes. Take us to the caves of our ancestors and feel the artistic creation as a great need in a world without writing, very likely without language». CONTACT: Address: Ioanni Mati 9, 42132 Trikala, Greece, phone: +306977349253