ARTIST STATEMENT

Mutation
Human development and the environment. A relationship interwoven, a dual relationship, sometimes identical and harmony and other conflicts. The human development comes in response to environmental instability, perhaps many times to the same causes. Since the beginning of mankind there was always the battle of survival of the fittest. Ie How could a man survive in a continuously changing environment, creating an endless vicious circle. My personal artistic research lies in my attempt to express through my work anxiety and concern to me is the changes in the genetic material of organisms to adapt to the demands of the modern environment (genetically modified organisms, genetic pollution, mutant Products ...). An environment that was looted or destroyed by human greed for the sake of evolution. Inspired by the environment (plants, nests, cocoons, vitals, fruit, biota ...) and through different angles of observation and perception, through my personal aesthetic construct“biomorphic forms”. But do not try to copy the external reality, instead I want to feel the complete freedom of creation. Besides not enough anymore sculpture shown in space, just pleirei specific aesthetic standards. Today, the project aims to awaken the conscience, and the new form born involve and pours the raison d'être of that in my effort to develop a dialogue between Nature and Art. An art called today more highly than other seasons, to emphasize the need for harmonious coexistence between man and environment. The result of my work comes through changing their original identity avoiding a naturalistic rendering but indirect and allusive, in my effort to give them a new status to show the tragedy of a teratogenic process of nature by its own structures so the viewer to decode through its own optical prism and to raise up to its responsibilities, the modern bourgeois of megacities. The bourgeois who directly or indirectly experiencing the impact of culture created as victimizer and victim. The basic material of the works are colored wrapping paper that through a process of successive layers of paper and glue into molds and gives the final color result of my works. Recyclable materials are cheap, marks a highly consuming society, industrial remnants of the modern world, such as plastic, rubber, cardboard, newspapers, twine, raw wool, materials often bear the traces of time, which is already loaded with memories inside, with a process of transformation, reconstruction and transformation of the substance, I give them a new life and become part of the integration process of the sculpture in my attempt to pay as I a "new reality." A reality that aims to pique the viewer to not remain aloof towards the work, becoming a participant, a co-perpetrator, and part of this ugly beautiful, whimsical "nature" I want to believe that it reflects the reversals suffered by organic life of modern man.

BIOGRAPHY

CV Aris Katsilakis Born in 1974 in Romania from Greek parents. Repatriated to Greece in 1980, and since then he lives and works in Serres. In 1998 he enrolled at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tinos (marble sculpture). He graduated in 2001 with a scholarship to continue his studies at the Athens Faculty of Fine Arts. He studied at A Sculpture Workshop Department with Professor I. Papagiannis and attended the Photography Workshop by Prof. M. Babousis. He has presented his work in two solo exhibitions: gallery Kaplanon 5 (Athens 2010) and House Papavasiliou (Serres 2010) and in numerous group exhibition By selection: Baton 7 2012 (remember?), Gallery Zoumboulakis 2012 (Big city), Gallery Myro 2011 Want / win (Environment - picture - Form), Gallery Kaplanon 2011, House Shina Serres 2008, 8th Festival Amphipolis 2007, Municipal Gallery of Kallithea "Wisdom Lambrakis" 2007, 12th International Month of Photography, Athens 2005, 11th International Month of Photography, Athens 2004, Biennale Internazionale in Vicenza, Venice 2002. His works are in private collections and public spaces. From 2007 to 2011 he taught sculpture as Lecturer (407/80) in the Department of Sculpture of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Western Macedonia and since 2011 teaches Plastic and Pottery as a laboratory assistant in the Department of Interior Architecture, Interior Design and Drawing Objects in TEI Serres. http://www.ariskatsilakis.gr/ (katsilakisa@gmail.com)