Marios Fournaris Abstract

“Creation Out Of Nothing”


Marios Fournaris approaches contradictory meanings which while they seem to approximate each other in conflict, finally end up being the resultant that completes the harmony of the total. His objective is to search, use and emergence visual data that have an intense symbolic character and simultaneously are friendly in each conceptual interpretation.

More specifically what concerns him is the matter of rhythm and its connection with the sense of harmony, symmetry and isochronous. The rhythm as element of music, intricately linked with the parts of melody and harmony, represents aspects of universe and life. The visceral rhythm for example, corresponds to seventy beats of the metronome. Everything that moves away from this timbre distinguishes decay, disease and chaos. In order to visualize these matters Fournaris make use of materials that, on the one hand, are hard in appearance and feeling (wood, metal) and, on the other hand, converse with each other in a contradictory and paradoxical way in an action-reaction relationship. Quite often in his methodology and practice includes procedures such as combustion, the repetition of morphological elements and now in this project the growing of plants, incorporating data of biological science in his work.

Artist seeks the language of images that are sharp similar to Orthodox iconography, but that refers to the aesthetics of Kounellis, Beuys and even to abstract thought of Malevich. His aspiration is to create a visual environment that arouses in the spectator an intense association with the element of reflection.