Jannis Psychopedis

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Jannis Psychopedis ( Greek Γιάννης Ψυχοπαίδης , scientific transliteration Giannēs Psychopaidēs ; * 1945 in Athens ) is a Greek visual artist in the fields of painting , graphics and drawing, installation art , new art forms, mixed media and university lecturer.

Life

The Greek artist Jannis Psychopedis was born in Athens in 1945. He is considered one of the most important contemporary painters in Greece and a co-founder of "Critical Realism ". From 1963 to 1968 he studied at the State University of Fine Arts in Athens. From 1971 to 1976 he studied in the course of a DAAD study abroad at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . From 1977 to 1986 he lived as a freelance artist in Berlin. From 1987 to 1993 he moved to Brussels. From 1994 to 2012 he was a professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts . He is considered a founding member of the group "New Greek Realists" (1971–1973).

Exhibitions of his mostly small-format works, which are often summarized in more complex picture cycles, have been shown in several European metropolises as well as in China and the USA. In 2017 he took part in documenta 14 and in 2018 in the binational exhibition At the Beginning Was the Word. Concepts - Images - Script at the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) in Beijing .

His works are in several international art collections.

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Psychopedis' oeuvre deals mainly with questions of “ European identity ”, which includes an examination of European history, especially classical antiquity and its myths. In this respect, his work revolves around the interweaving of modernity up to the beginnings of classical traditions from antiquity. In summary, he processes the ancient world with the images of our era through mostly surprising comparisons. The aim of these comparisons is to evoke the synthesis. In his work, Psychopedis rigorously asks about the connection between humans and the world. He examines the human relationship to history and tradition.

Central works of his oeuvre are works that are also known in Germany, for example “The letter that never arrived” (2002) and the large-format, multi-part work “The great crossword puzzle” (2001/02). With his tableau "Nostos" (Homecoming), composed in 2007 and composed of hundreds of panels, an open narrative panorama was created. "Nostos" alludes to the return of Odysseus who, after years of exile, did not find the desired resting place, but whose journey ended in further wrong turns and struggles. Psychopedis' narrative panorama is "open" insofar as additional networking by the viewer is required.

Karin Grunz wrote in her essay in 2003: “… the abundance of details confuses, one begins to search, brings together what is known and then receives something new. You pause, become curious and realize that you need time to grasp or solve the whole thing. Here, too, there are reminiscences of ancient and modern Greece ”. A sentence from William Falkner could be quoted as a guiding principle for the confluence of past and present in the work of Psychopedis : “The past is not dead, it has not even passed”.

Exhibitions

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literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Εθνικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης : Το ΕΜΣΤ στην documenta 14 . (Greek, emst.gr [accessed November 20, 2018]).
  2. ↑ EMST at NAMOC. In: emst.gr. 2018, accessed December 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Psychopedis, Jannis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ψυχοπαίδης, Γιάννης (Greek script)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens