Dimitris Efeoglou
CYCLADIC CAFE ART PROJECT
JANUARY 28 UNTIL MARCH 2, 2026
The material qualities of the forest, the roughness of tree trunks, branches, foliage, textured grounds, and earthy paths, emerge or return on Efeoglou’s surfaces as traces and gestures, expressing the relationship between the lived natural site and its artistic reconfiguration.
His practice revolves around different forms of abstraction and is shaped through a process of continuous transformation. Layers of color are added, removed, and reintroduced across multiple levels. Through small, repetitive, and almost neurotic gestures, images are created and then erased, negating one another. As they are re-formed and altered, they move away from their original form, ultimately resulting in images that no longer represent it but instead allude to it.
The trajectory from the initial stage to the completion of the work unfolds in a multisensory manner, through the interweaving of the visual production of form and the tactile action upon the material. The paper vibrates under the sculptural gesture of carving, while simultaneously being pushed to the limits of its own fragility.
The pictorial surface functions as a space where the landscape is re-created through contemplation and memory. The artistic practice does not describe the place but preserves its quality of being uncharted. Each dense color, each gesture that undermines the surface of the paper, marks the beginning of a journey toward the depiction of new, altered spaces; environments that articulate imagined topographical territories.
THE ARTWORK
Two studies for a scene in the woods, 2023
oil, oil-stick, carved paper
diptych 105 x 150 cm (105 x 75 cm each)
THE ARTIST
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, art spaces, and art fairs both in Greece and abroad.
In 2011, he represented Greece at the 15th 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.
CYCLADIC CAFE ART PROJECT
The Museum of Cycladic Art presents the Cycladic Café Art Project – part of the Modern Art Program – combining places of social gathering with art. With the ultimate aim of embracing the Greek and international scene of modern art, the Museum presents works by internationally acclaimed and emerging artists linked to its current exhibitions and activities at Cycladic Café. The Cycladic Café Art Project motivates the dialogue between art and everyday life.
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