A dot with a pencil next to another dot, next to a million dots – this is how the drawings of Nikos Papadopoulos are assembled. As the past is, by its nature (or at least within our perception of time), what creates the present, Papadopoulos’ drawings depict details of scenes from the Greek neorealistic cinema of the 50s and the 60s, a cultural movement concerned with the conditions of everyday life of that period, characterized by the habits of the bourgeoisie and the lives of the common people.
A dot with a pencil next to another dot, next to a million dots – this is how the drawings of Nikos Papadopoulos are assembled.
As the past is, by its nature (or at least within our perception of time), what creates the present, Papadopoulos’ drawings depict details of scenes from the Greek neorealistic cinema of the 50s and the 60s, a cultural movement concerned with the conditions of everyday life of that period, characterized by the habits of the bourgeoisie and the lives of the common people. These details from various film scenes re-create a whole – from a particular scene from a specific film, a specific era, a specific country with its own history that has developed into our present reality.
When we try to understand the history of our world, we look for fragments. Grain by grain we patch together the traces and create a holistic picture of information. Sketches of animals and daily scenes on rock and soil are the traces that old civilizations left behind, and thus the way we communicate with them in the present day – making us aware of the fact that everything, like the sand and the soil which constitute the earth we step on, is just a set of innumerable tiny tesserae which make up a mosaic, a whole.
Sofia Mavroudis
Art curator
