“Every modern-day painter has the right to conceive his or her own alphabet, from A to Z,” says Panos Evangelopoulos, so one must be prepared to become familiar with a different, intimate alphabet when one views the works of this Greek artist. Though it may sound intimidating at first, one quickly realizes that this is no foreign language that Panos' pieces seek to converse in, but rather it is the language of experience gained, experience shared.
Educated at the School of Art of the Aristotelio University of Thessaloniki, Panos graduated with a strong style, and at the head of his class. He has gone on to exhibit widely in Greece, and has received many accolades. Religious iconography features heavily in many of his pieces, but these works go far beyond mere religiosity, instead speaking of deep transformation with the juxtaposition of classic figures against the wild artistic hinterlands of conception. In a phrase, these aren't your Grandmother's crucifixes.
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