IRAKLIS PARCHARIDIS

For Iraklis Parcharidis, painting primarily signifies the contemplative gaze, the sanctity of a glimpse. A painting is not just a narrative phantasmagoria, but rather something sacred and secret. The vast fenced landscapes, the old city walls, the half sunk in darkness and snow houses, are not representations as much as they are commentaries on the metaphysics of space. Similarly, his human figures are archetypes, rather than realistic approaches to issues of loneliness and melancholy. What is more important, is the way people and landscapes are morphologically attributed by the artist, bearing a constant agony for form renewal, in order to masterfully balance between the classical and the experimental.