Dimitris Efeoglou
"After the first frost"

The exhibition ‘After the first frost’ unfolds as a process of moving around a forest

setting visually, physically and conceptually. The forest's tangible qualities—the

rough texture of tree trunks, the branches, the foliage, the terrain and the dirt

tracks—and also the hut as a sign of human presence and temporary habitation appear

or return on my surfaces as traces and gestures, reflecting the relationship between the

experience of the actual place and its artistic reconstruction. The painted surface acts

as a space where the landscape is created through the notion of contemplation and

memory.

This is a body of work that carries the procedure of a constant transmutation, as the

surfaces receive consecutive changes from layers of colour. The forms are erased and

reformed by small, repetitive and neurotic gestures. Under one layer of material lies a

second one, and under that there is a third; underlying all of them is a first image that

is drawn, erased, built anew and constantly changing.

The original image becomes distant and ends up as a hint. Painting here functions as a

means for accessing forest scenes, while the artistic practice does not describe the

place but retains the property of something uncharted. Each dense layer of paint, each

gesture across the smaller or larger expanses of canvas, wood and paper 'builds' a new

notional environment.

D. E.

Short Bio

Dimitris Efeoglou (b.1986) holds a master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Athens

School of Fine Arts (ASFA), and a bachelor’s degree from the School of Fine Arts of

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH).

He has exhibited his work in five solo and two duo shows in Greece and has

participated in numerous group exhibitions at museums, arts spaces, and art fairs both

in Greece and abroad.

In 2011, he represented Greece at the 15 th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and

the Mediterranean, and in 2019 he was awarded the Artworks Fellowship by the

Stavros Niarchos Foundation. His work is part of international private and public

collections.