2023-07-23 16:41:59
Kultur Alexi Tsioris
This is how Kaspar Hauser paints among artists
Status: 23.07.2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes
Painting by Alexi Tsioris
Source: © the artist, courtesy Jahn und Jahn, Munich/Lisboa
Archetypes, ornaments, signs. What’s swirling through Alexi Tsioris’ pictures? In any case, the paintings are not so easy to decipher. But there is a strategy behind it.
If Kaspar Hauser had invented an alphabet, it might have been similar to Alexi Tsioris’s pictures: cheerful and uninhibited, far removed from all rules and regulations, developed from his own empirical innocence. Tsioris organizes recurring signs on his canvases, sometimes placed in cryptic, sometimes consistent contexts.
Are they archetypes that everyone can understand in their formal reduction? Or are they ciphers taken from an associatively compiled but strictly fictitious catalog? Ornaments that self-explanatory (or not) seem to fly at a reasonable distance from each other on the canvas? Tsioris spells a sketchy alphabet. The signs do not become words, rather finely constructed scraps of imagination.
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For these mixed media (4,000 to 14,000 euros) you need the back (!) of a canvas, oil paint, brush, spatula, fingers and lots of empty space, which gives the individual objects a three-dimensional effect. Only occasionally do they touch each other, but they always strive for an interaction. The playful gesture – supposedly accidental like Kaspar Hauser – is the stringent program of the artist, who was born in Athens in 1982 and has lived in Munich for a long time.
Alexi Tsioris, “Bauen Brauen Sauen”, in the exhibition at Jahn und Jahn, Munich
Source: © the artist, courtesy Jahn und Jahn, Munich/Lisboa
This also describes Tsioris’ approach to monotypes (3000 euros), although here other technical requirements lead to a far less controlled result. Basically, for a monotype, a motif is applied to a glass plate with paint. A piece of paper is laid over it and the motif is pressed onto it. The paper is peeled off, resulting in a copy with a unique character.
If the artist covers the plate with oil paint, places the paper on top and draws on the surface facing him, the motif is engraved in the layer of paint on the underside. If he repeats this process, a dense drawing emerges, as if written in secret. With its relief-like lines and figures, this complex variant of the monotype refers directly to the third dimension of Tsioris’ artistic work, the sculpture.
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The artist, who was born in Athens in 1982 and has lived in Munich for a long time, was a master student of the sculptor Niklaus Gerhart and remains in the precisely formulated approximation even in his sculptures. That’s not a contradiction in terms, that’s strategy.
Organic bronze plant beings dance gracefully, sometimes in twin formations, sometimes isolated on roughly cobbled together steles and give the exhibition in the Gallery Jahn and Jahn with the ironic title “Bauen, Brauen, Sauen” (until August 12, 2023), based on Lion Feuchtwanger’s evil Munich novel “Erfolg”, the mocking, choreographically sophisticated backbone.
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