Apostolos Palavrakis is an artist whose creativity essentially results from the processes of reception, reflection, emotion and transformation. His intellectual and religious basic idea encases both, the philosophical, literary and visual cultural heritage of the Greek antiquity and the field of contemporary existential inquiry.
The interaction of light and darkness manifests an antithetical principle, as well as the illegibility of the inscriptions. Since the inscriptions often are written in mirror image, they are beyond the traditional context of scriptures; they obtain an additional symbolic meaning. Language, respectively script, is a symbol for spiritual creation. The reversed inscription dissolves our classical reading direction and reminds us again of a cycle in which there can be neither beginning nor end. Everything flows.
The fragmentary is a very important element in Apostolos Palavrakis’ OEuvre. Using the mode of sign and script, the Greek artist builds up his work systematically, just to end it as a fragment. He restrains from any illusionistic idea of identity and philosophical sense. His intention is to show traces of live and time through his art and to stimulate reflections. The works of Apostolos Palavrakis are emanations of an artistical dialogue, whose subject is the aspiration for an utopian spot without claiming the Absolute.
Biographie:
Since 1981 Lives in Dortmund Dortmund, Germany
1996-1999 Teacher at the University of Dortmund Dortmund, Germany
1991 Scholarship Hoesch AG dortmund, Germany
1981-1985 Studied architecture Dortmund, Germany
1962 Born Trikala, Greece
