YIORGOS APOTSOS

BIOGRAPHY

Individual exhibitions Has held three solo shows in Thessaloniki and Athens Group exhibitions include: the Taftotita group exhibiton, French Institute, Thessaloniki 1975 The Post-War Generation of painters from Thessaloniki, 1940-1955, French Institute, organised by the Techni associaton, Thessaloniki 1978 AVANG exhibitions; Ten Carriers: Visual Artists from the School Of Architecture, Vafopouleio Cultural Centre, Thessaloniki 1986 Exhibition of visual art by Teachers and Alumni of the School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Municipal Art Gallery, Thessaloniki 1992 Artists from northern Greece, Zapeio building, Athens 1993 Art Isavron art gallery, Thessaloniki1995 Aspects of creativity in the visual arts in Thessaloniki since 1960, pavillon 1, International Fair, Thessaloniki Apotsos started his career by introducing materials and objects into a painted environment and using their texture and colour as fundamental structural elements. In some compositions, the narrative is fragmented into smaller fields, thus enabling him to explore the potentialities of the colour and the formal possibilities of the objects at one and the same time. The inner coherence of the diverse materials is achieved mainly by judicious chromatic interventions. He continued to articulate the painted surface with colour and objects in later works too. The volume and the textures of the objects he uses introduce the third dimension into the work, and at the same time colour assumes a dominant role. Mixed media, the use of different techniques, drips and runs of colour, and gestural interventions make up an abstract vocabulary which Apotsos handles consistently and to a high standard of perfection. In Bill-posting (1970), a combination of collage and mixed media, representational fragments co-exist with an abstract exposition and the different materials work together to create a varied style and formulation.