About Aristomenis Tsolakis

«Visual artist. Painter inspired by the Hellenic mythology, philosophy, physics and metaphysics.» 

Χαίρετε, my name is Aristomenis Tsolakis and I am self-taught painter. My knowledge, general and specific, are the result of many years of study in social, scientific and philosophical issues and mainly in Greek philosophy and mythology. Personalities and world history ideas also influenced and influence in my thoughts and my actions, both as a human and as an artist. With great appreciation and admiration to their works,  I invoke them…
«Homer, Hesiod, Pythagoras, Polygnotus, Herakleitus, Apelles, Phidias, Plato, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, Empedocles, Parmenides, Zeno. Breton, Aristophanes,Thucydidis, Beethoven, Karkavitsas, Giorgione, Kazantzakis, Gauguin, Embirikos, Dali, Ernst, Eggonopoulos, Van Gogh, 'Elytis, Raphael, Greco, Picasso, Vermeer, Astrapas, De Chirico, Seferis, Magritte, Cezanne, Kalvos, Solomos , Papadiamantis, Chants, Panselinos, Varnalis, Ritsos, Tsaroyxis, folk songs, Castaneda, Ramfos, Jethro Tull, Genesis, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Cream, Who, Oldfield, I.S.Band, J. Lennon, "TsitsanoVamvax", Theodorakis, Hadjidakis, Markopoulos, Savvopoulos, Papazoglou, Papathanasiou, Rasoulis, Malamas, Peridis, AVATON Antigoni Tsolakis. »

      –Approach to my work < POSEIDON >....... I will try to give an interpretation of my inspiration which make me create this panel and the others ,of course, of this series. I was born in Samos, my experiance living on an island is a vivid recollection and penetrates my life. Of course the sea has everything to do with it, I carry with me a fertile treasure of depiction and motion that inspired me constantly. Some times like the main subject, some times like spacial context in which emerges my fantasy related to the world of relative reality wich influences me and visce versa. Everything I paint consists of the aspects of agreements and disagreements in time, in space, in participation and the comprehension of this perpetual fluidity of life. The main form of these images of the sea, is the God Poseidon. My ancient forefathers render in this godhead attributes of water, mainly those of the sea, while humanising the naturual elements and every characteristic of behaviour. Content and form are recognised through a correspondent–projection of their psychism, making familiar at the same time the Cosmos, which surround or encircle man, as a part of the behaviour with which it was harmonized. Painting the series of the sea and the shells, I drew from my memories the intensity of the moment. I worked with the fruits of the sea and the influence of emotion–logic intensely in relation to my surroundings. Men, facts, conditions, etc. are like a passage or a visit from my past or in the dimension of time chiseled in my brain and my heart without direction, interference or manipulation from outside. Finally, the most emotional part of life, lives peacefully within our psycism forever due to the relevence and the dynamics of emotion with the truth.