Who's Afraid of
the Big Bad Wolf,
50 x 35 cm,
acrylics, pencil,
ink and gold 22k
on wood,
2018
Marios Fournaris appears extremely lucid about his morphoplastic intentions and aspirations, setting up in parallel, a comprehensive filling and formatting, a conceptual prehension, mature in connotations and multiple readings. Large section of artist’s works, include wall-mounted or three dimensional installations, in which mainly he articulates – assemble various niggling and raw materials as well as objects from real life, with cognizance, sensitivity and lateral thinking, and at the same time with “anarchist” and subversive disposal. His artistic proposals reveal a wide range of references extending into innovative and radical experimentations and movements of 20th century art. Exceptional drawing precision, purity of color, technical excellence and subtlety, are those elements that directly and vividly enforced, characterizing his painting compositions which are opened to a world of evocative images, in an area of life’s allegories: love and death, alienation and time, technology and machine, anxieties of existence, emotional and mental manifestations and behaviors. Fragmentary forms, symbols and cultural memories, function as the keys of a pictorial code. Beauty and sensuality of themes and their visual performance, the richness of inspirations, the surrealistic juxtaposition or the combination of heterogeneous images, the diffuse romantic spirit, intensify the ambiguity and the especial vibe of Marios Fournaris’ painting, introducing the viewer to an entirely unexpected and paradoxical visual and mental universe, leading him to redefine deeper, to seek hidden secrets and traces of an inner path.
Marios Fournaris,
Anni di Piombo
or The Present,
dimensions variable,
saws, paper,
rope, wood
Beauty As Never Before,
28 cm x 28 cm,
acrylics, pencil,
ink and gold 22K,
on wood,
2019
Between Earth and Sky,
65 cm x 32 cm x 22cm,
wood, iron,
cotton, jute,
2018
Cultural Continuum,
35 cm x 50 cm,
engraving,
casein colors
and acrylics
on wood,
2018
Homo Faber’s Maze,
35.5 cm x 35.5 cm,
acrylics, pencil,
ink and gold 22K,
on wood,
2018
I,
70 cm x 60 cm,
wood, cotton,
iron wires,
iron nail, stone,
2016
Isis,
40 cm x 50 cm,
acrylics, pencil,
ink and gold 22K,
on wood,
2018
Untitled,
67 cm x 64 cm x 15 cm,
wood, iron,
woodworking tool,
burlap sack, bone,
2018
Queen of Blades,
35 cm x 50 cm,
pencil, color pencils,
ink on paper,
2018
Voice Over,
47 cm x 60 cm x 17 cm,
wood, iron,
screwdriver, pen,
fabric, cleaver,
cassettes, old record,
juten, rope,
aluminium, offering,
2018
Where The Music Goes
When We Don’t Listen,
90 cm x 78 cm x 12 cm,
wood, iron,
cotton, metronome,
fabric, fiddle stick,
2018
Nature and Culture,
62 cm x 69 cm,
color pencils,
pencil and ink
on paper,
2018
Ne Travallez Jamais,
variable dimensions,
wood, iron shovels, coals,
2011-2018
Untitled,
50 cm x 70 cm,
coloured pencils
and pencil on paper,
2015
Primitive Lust,
35 cm x 47 cm
pencil, coloured pencils
and ink on paper,
2018
Saint Magdalene,
25 cm x 35 cm
pencil, coloured pencils
and ink on paper,
2018
