Pavlos Dionyssopoulos

Biography Selected works

Biography

Pavlos is a Greek artist identified with the New Realism movement, known for his paper collages that explore the surface of the everyday. He was born in Filiatra in 1930 and graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Athens in 1953. The following year, he was awarded a scholarship to study drawing at the Académie de la Grand Chaumière in Paris, France. Upon his return to Greece, Pavlos worked in entertainment and theatre, before his interest in Pop Art grew. Following a three-year stay in Paris beginning in 1958, where he became acquainted with New Realism, he gave up painting and began to create collages with thin strip of paper cut up from magazines and posters. Each shred of paper used in the work resembles a coloured line, and together perfectly depict the vibrations that are stirred up between shape and colour. These densely coloured works depict the objects of everyday life: shirts on hangers, ties, curtains, socks, fruit bowls and bottles. Pavlos is less interested in the image of objects proper, as he is in “the philosophy that generates the image and makes it a symbol of society.” Removed from their natural context, simple daily objects become glossy consumer products, acquiring indomitable mesmerising qualities and speaking to the consumerist spirit of our current era.

Selected works

PAVLOS DIONYSSOPOULOS (1930 - 2019) - FLAG OF ITALY

TITLE: FLAG OF ITALY
MEDIUM: SILKSCREEN INSIDE A PLEXIGLASS
DIMENSIONS: 70χ100 CM.
INFORMATION: SIGNED AND NUMBERED (6/64) BELOW

PAVLOS DIONYSSOPOULOS (1930 - 2019) - GLASS

TITLE: GLASS 
MEDIUM: MIXED TECHNIQUE IN A PLEXIGLAS BOX
DIMENSIONS: 30X28 CM.
INFORMATION: SIGNED BELOW

PAVLOS DIONYSSOPOULOS (1930 - 2019) - SOCKS
TITLE: SOCKS
MEDIUM: MIXED TECHNIQUE WITH POSTER PAPER INSIDE PLEXIGLASS
DIMENSIONS: 45X50 CM.
INFORMATION: SIGNED AND DATED (1981) ON THE BACK
PAVLOS DIONYSSOPOULOS (1930 - 2019) - WHEATS

TITLE: WHEATS
MEDIUM: MIXED TECHNIQUE IN A PLEXI BOX
DIMENSIONS: 37Χ52 CM.
INFORMATION: SIGNED AND DATED (1987) ON THE BACK SIDE

PAVLOS DIONYSSOPOULOS (1939 - 2019) - SOCKS

TITLE: SOCKS
MEDIUM: POSTER PAPER IN A PLEXIGLASS BOX
DIMENSIONS: 63,5Χ120 CM.
INFORMATION: SIGNED AND DATED (1971) BELOW

PAVLOS DIONYSSOPOULOS - CHAMPAGNE GLASS

CHAMPAGNE GLASS
MIXED TECHNIQUE IN A PLEXIGLASS
20χ32 CM
SIGNED AND DATED (2014) BELOW

PAVLOS DIONYSSOPOULOS - SCARPINI

SCARPINI
MIXED TECHNIQUE IN A PLEXIGLASS
116Χ133 CM.
SIGNED AND DATED (1997) BELOW

PAVLOS DIONYSSOPOULOS - TIES

TIES
MIXED TECHNIQUE ON PAPER IN A PLEXI BOX
70 Χ 90 CM
SIGNED AND DATED (2000) ON THE BACK SIDE

PAVLOS DIONYSSOPOULOS - TREE

TREE
POSTER PAPER AND ACRYLIC ON PPLYWOOD
32χ20χ20 CM.
SOGNED AND DATED (2002) ON THE BASE

PAVLOS DIONYSSOPOYLOS (1930 - 2019) - HEART

TITLE: HEART
MEDIUM: MARKERS ON PAPER
DIMENSIONS: 30X40 CM.
INFORMATION: SIGNED AND DATED (2007) BELOW