"Interpretation Of Winter" Oil & Acrylic 28.05.2020 - Creation Order: 072 Size: 59x39,4 in, 150x100 cm

In this canvas, Ioannis Kaiserlis experiments with the technique of Dripping by using two colours with different consistencies, oil and acrylic, allowing one to become the basis of the other, the floor on which to imprint perceived sensations in an impulsive manner. The colour, the white of winter, drips and solidifies just like the snow on the trees when the temperatures are very low; yet going deeper into the meaning of the canvas, the work appears to be a metaphor for an interiority that seems to be still, immobile, faced with events that have in some way cooled its heat, represented by that red on the left side and which creeps in small patches even on the white below. Black instead represents contingency, that series of circumstances that have followed one another, leaving indelible marks capable of modifying the course of events, but also the view of life. On the one hand there seems to emerge resignation towards events that have irreversibly changed the sensitivity of the individual, but on the other hand there is a link with a depth that, in spite of everything, cannot help but emerge and try to dissolve the silence of the soul. Dripping, an instinctive and irrational technique, is mixed with Kaiserlis; meditation, with the ability to go beyond the initial sensations and to take note, accept and only later overcome them; here, then, expressive intensity becomes a point of conjunction with reflection, with that evaluation and weighing up of the consequences of events and of the individual's own reaction. So winter is the winter of existence, when one chooses to succumb to events instead of metabolising them and drawing the necessary lessons from them to melt away the cold and come out of the paralysis that has ensued.
 

Marta Lock, International Art critic (Id Getty 500490165), novelist, aforist, essayst, writer of socio-psychology