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¨From above or from below it has been a nice view¨   Graphite pencil drawing, acryl paint, mixed media 100cmX70cm





Detail of the work ¨From above or from below it has been a nice view¨ 





Detail of the work ¨From above or from below it has been a nice view¨ 




¨It was written in the stars¨   Graphite pencil drawing, acryl paint, mixed media 100cmX70cm



Detail of the work ¨It was written in the stars¨



Detail of the work  ¨It was written in the stars¨



"Tastefully laughing"  Graphite pencil drawing, acryl paint, mixed media 29cmX42cm

"All things in nature occur mathematically"  -Rene Decartes- Graphite pencil drawing 29cmX42cm



"Reflecting" Graphite pencil drawing  29cmX42cm   "In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyze and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing" -Fernardo Pessoa





"Take your life in your hands"  Graphite pencils, coloured pencils, markers & fineliners  100cmX70cm   

Detail of the work "Take your life in your hands" 




Detail of the work "Take your life in your hands"







"Bending Spacetime"  alternative title "Nothing is wrong" Graphite pencil drawing 100cm X 70cmwe alinea




Detail of the work "Bending Spacetime"  alternative title "Nothing is wrong"

"Matron of the Arts" Graphite pencil drawing 100cm X 60cm 






"Constellation of Holofernes"  Graphite pencil drawing 149cm X 90cm







Detail of the drawing "Constellation of Holofernes" 







"Timeless Monstrosity" Graphite pencil drawing 86cm X 56cm   

Detail of the work ¨Timeless Monstrocity¨




"5G" pencil drawing 120cm X 70cm

Visualising the subconscious and feeling safe behind the screen

 

"Vanitas" pencil drawing 120cm X 70cm 

The Latin noun vanitas (from the Latin adjective vanus 'empty') means 'emptiness', 'futility', or 'worthlessness'. Vanitas as a painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent.



"Dutch Golden age meets Minoan civilization" pencil drawing 30cm X 45cm   

Frans Hals meets Sotiris Vardakis. As if the portrait of the Dutch lady from the 17th century and the ritualistic vessel in the form of a head of a lioness from the Minoan era, around 1600b.c. have the same enigmatic smile and confidence.





 "Diogenes" pencil drawing 30cm X 45cm, a ballet dancer, my hand, a fungus from Vliegerbos in Amsterdam,

a face in reliëf from the gardens of villa Farneze in Rome, an anatomical drawing of a foot and a Minoan entombment

in a jar from the Archeological museum of Heraklion Crete.









"Vicious Circle 2" pencil drawing 30cm X  45cm 
Motive with putti from painted panels 18th century, A spider from the Botanical book of Maria Sibylla Merian 17th century,
 a modified photo from a sculpture of a veiled woman, from the great hall of the palazzo Barberini in Rome
 and a gargoyle from another Roman edifice. 


    
 "Vicious circle" graphite pencil drawing 30cm X 45cm    
A sculpture of a head of a boy beaten by a wasp by Hendrick de Keyser, around 1565.  
A water gargoyle  from a fountain at the court of the palazzo Barberini in Rome
 and a rooster from an 18th cen engraving from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. 



"Self portrait behind a glass vase" 
Transparent surreal formalistic graphite pencil drawing 45cm X 30cm



"Do you love me" Pulmonary circulation, diffusion, expansion. 
-When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky- Buddha
Mix media on canvas 120cm X 120cm


"Drifting"  Inspired by the painting of Francesc Ribalta -Deposed Christ embracing St. Bernard Clairvaux- 
by an anatomical depiction of the face muscles and from the Putti dancing in a circle by Marcantonio Raimonti
Graphite pencil, coloured pencil drawing 50cm X30cm


¨I give you my heart¨ Anatomical depiction of a cross-sectioned heart.
Tangling blood vessels spreading through the whole canvas, esse, perpetually beating, repeatedly pumping life, 
the core of the micro and macrocosmos. 
The cross-sectioned heart is drawn from the catalogus "The world's best anatomical charts"
Cut-away canvas. mixed media 130cm X 130cm



"Selfie" cutaway  drawing on paper, attached on plexiglass  60cm X 40cm



"Mandala" cutaway drawing on paper, 
Mixed media attached on plexiglas 50cm X 30cm



"Ornamental attached symmetry"  Graphite pencil drawing 50cm X 30cm
Botanical illustration, baroque ornament, medical engraving of the late 18th century





Conspicuous dialectical symmetry. "Far away i miss the boat" 
Inspired by the work of Meindert Hobbema "The Avenue, Middelharnis"  
Contrasts questioning reality-fantasy issues, the narrative of the form.  
Graphite pencil drawing 100cm X 70cm 





"Into the cabin" graphite pencil drawing 170cm X 125cm
Heterotopia is a concept elaborated by philosopher Michel Foucault to describe certain cultural, institutional and discursive spaces that are somehow ‘other’: disturbing, intense, incompatible, contradictory or transforming. 
Heterotopias are worlds within worlds, mirroring and yet upsetting what is outside.



“I am nothing.
I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something.
Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.” 
― Fernando Pessoa The Book of Disquiet
Graphite pencil drawing 100cm X 70cm 


 

"Tableau Vivant" graphite pencil drawing 100cm X 70cm 
Inspired by the work of Alexander Keirincx "Landscape with Cephalus Receiving the Gifts from Procris" c.1620/21


"Beating the death" graphite pencil drawing 65cm X 50cm 
Inspired by the painting of Joos van Cleve - Saint Jerome in Penitence, which is speculated to be made around 1530.
Jerome, the scholar saint, the philosopher, one of the great "doctors of the church", the embodiment of the Renaissance visionary that lived 1000 years before the Renaissance.
Like Saint Jerome that used classical authors to describe christian concepts, i reuse him to depict the sorrow of the predetermined event of mortality.


"Doryanthes excelsa Correa"  graphite pencil drawing 50cm X 70cm  
"although the tares hinder the wheat, yet they make it the more beautiful to behold" Martin Luther (1483 –1546)
Drawing inspired by the painting of Abraham Bloemaert, Landscape with the Parable of the Tares of the field (1624)



"Behind the bush" graphite pencil drawing 200cm X150cm
A picture of my penis, photos of vine branches, the German ocean liner ¨Europa¨  and a random bodybuilder.
A symbolic self portrait, the journey of my spirit spirit through the endless sea of possibilities.
The ship takes me to the depths of history, gazing the horizon of the future, the decay and the new beginning. 
A registration of a dream. A transcendent world, where the ideas become images. 



"Dining Room" graphite pencil drawing 80cm X 60cm
Inspired from a picture of the dining room of the German Lloyd Steamship "Lahn"  and a picture of a vulva from the catalogus ¨The world's best Anatomical charts¨

District of the City of New York, Port of New York
I, H. Hellmers master of the Steamship "Lahn" do solemnly, sincerely and truly declare that the following List or manifest subscribed by me and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs of the collection District of the City of New York is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board of the said Steamship at Bremen and Southampton from which port said Steamship has now arrived: and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the calling of each of said passengers, the location of the compartment of space occupied by each during the passage, the country of citizenship of each, and also the destination or location intended by each: and that said list or manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage: and the dates and the names and ages of those who died: also of the pieces of baggage of each: also a true statement so far as can be ascertained with reference to the intention of each alien passenger as to a protracted sojourn in this country. So help me God. Sworn to this December 22, 1888 H. Hellmers. Before me, Thos J Dunn


"One day i will find myself"  graphite pencil drawing 20cm X 26cm
Inspired from an old faded photo of the Great Greek sculptor Gianoulis Chalepas. Restless and misunderstood, this great artist couldn't break the chains of sorrow that his rigid environment had tied him with.  
"Maybe it's my destiny to remain forever bookkeeper and poetry or literature, a butterfly perching on my head and makes me all the more ridiculous as its beauty is greater"   from Fernando Pessoa's "Book of Disquiet"



"Breaking the waves" graphite pencil drawing 20cm X 26cm
A part of a reclining funerary sculpture of Giannoulis Chalepas, one of his most renowned works, and a random picture of a wave branding. The continuous moving of the water. It represent the life. 
Heraclitus said, 'Panta Rhei' which is ancient Greek and means 'everything flows' . He said “no man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”

"Topographer"  graphite pencil drawing 20cm X 26cm
A random picture of a hand measuring a head with a compass.
A simple procedure, depicted on a somehow distressing manner.


 
"Character is Destiny" Heraclitus,  graphite pencil drawing 50cm X 50cm
-An old photograph of one of the most significant figures of the Greek art in the 19th century, the sculptor Giannoulis Chalepas posing around the end of the 20's with the pupils and the teacher of the elementary school of the island of Tinos, which was his birth place, and the place he spend the last years of his life after various misfortunes that he faced.  
Being inspired by the great quality of his work and emotionally driven by his dramatic course of life, the old faded photograph i used as inspiration, make me feel sad and hopeful the same time, like the miracle of life.


"The unbearable lightness of being" graphite pencil drawing 30cm X 20cm
Inspired by the plastered ceiling in the salon of the Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice.


"Time provokes its own past"   graphite pencil drawing 20cm X 26cm
Inspired by a relief made by Giannoulis Chalepas, who got his inspiration by the funerary reliefs of the classical era.
Combined here with an old photograph psychiatric institution as if comforting these restless souls.



“Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most.”  Mark Twain   
Graphite pencil drawing 20cm X 26cm
Floating pills, nurses, wrapped up psychiatric patients and the sculpture of an angel, 
a soothing appearance in a gloomy scene



"Time gets ahead of us"  graphite pencil drawing 20cm X26cm.
Nurses from the beginning of the 20th century, combined with a female reclining nude sculpture of Giannoulis Chalepas.
Reminiscent of the years that the artist spend in an psychiatric institution, being put there by his own family. 
Deprived from doing what he loved the most. To make ART. 
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