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Discover the artist's unique sculptures, see photos from various exhibitions, and read his theoretical views on art.
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Μichael Nungesser
It is not a common phenomenon today that artists think about their work, as did the Greek sculptor Fotis, who comes from Xanthi, and even publish them in an already catalog, accompanying them with his drawings and sculptures. Fotis studied in Athens, lives and works in Berlin and was a student of Bernhard Heiliger. Despite the fact that he had individual exhibitions in good Galleries such as Lietzow and Lange he was somewhat withdrawn. From 1988 he took the position of professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), keeping his studio in Berlin.
Fotis talks about the basic problems of today's existence, the imbalance between Nature and Technology: I have the feeling that I am torn apart by two conflicting forces, that of Nature and that of the Machine. He tries to point out and interpret the problems, risks and anxieties with the help of philosophical psychological and sociological books, such as those of Günther Anders, Ernst Bloch, Lucien Goldman, Werner Heisenberg, and C.G. Jung, among others.
About modern art he points out that it surrendered to forces of decay instead of doing the opposite. Many talented artists today are left more to emotion and put logic aside. The most capable of them, with the help of critics, gallerists or museums, are rather oriented towards the Dionysian and mythical. The tendency that exists towards the spontaneous, rapid, instinctive of the formless and the fluid, finds itself a cause for the underestimation of the figure in sculpture.
Fotis advocates for an art that will bring balance, rapprochement, synthesis of man with Nature and Technology. His book, which he dedicates to the unknown, anonymous, everyday man, ends with the hope that "in the end man in the wreckage of his destructive age remains recognizable by his human warmth, negotiating, fighting and loving".
