Apostolos Chantzaras develops his own visual and entertaining world of bold lines, forms and saturated colors, drawing influences from Greek folk shadow theater, ancient Greek sculptures and Byzantine iconography. A rich legacy of symbols related to Greece, the sun, the islands, the sea and its fish, bathers and athletes, all come together in a unique, perceptible artistic amalgam empowered by strong colors and intense movement. Yet the outcome is not verbose. Chantzaras succeeds in transforming it, in making it something of his own, and he offers us something new as a counterweight to our daily visual adversity.
Apostolos Chantzaras’ artistic amalgam of Greece
