A look at the Works of Spyros Verykios

written by Houke de Kwant on December 13, 2016

Today we have a look at the works of Spyros VerykiosI, a visusal artist living in Athens/Greece. Spyros studied painting in the Athens School of Fine Arts (BA, MFA). Paintings 1996

Spyros: In the series of the Burning Dog paintings I depicted aspects of the Uncanny or Unfamiliar (Freudian term Das Unheimlich). The iconic elements of the Dog, the Fire, the Urban environment and their relation to the human form emerged in an “accidental”/unconscious painting procedure. I tend to use them as Symbolic Elements of a blind sexuality and fear towards the zeitgeist of our times. I formalize my pictorial space trough near-abstract arrangement of volumes of monochromatic colors on the canvas. I would describe my work as Expressionism with an dominant symbolic/narrative aspect.

I paint microscopic fragments and residues (pieces of plastic, metal, paper, plastic bags). The objects have been destroyed, melt, deformed in such an extent that it is impossible to recognize their initial significance, use.
Their scale changes from insignificant to memorial and their significance is designed, invented again from undefined to ambiguous. Their forms are included and organized in a metaphysical, expressionist frame.