 Joseph
Panayoti (Self- portrait)
I- Artistic training (Formation
artistique):
Drawing
In all these disciplines and techniques: graphite pencil, carbon,
fusains charcoal, sauce.
Steel feather, goose feather, ink-brush, pastel, oil, watercolour.
Kind
Graphic, portraits, humoristic drawings with ink.
Furniture design
Tables, armchair, chair, etc.: In wood, glass wool (fibres de verre),
foam rubber, marble, steel, brass.
Sculptures
Materials: clay, wax. Wood, stone, marble, onyx, Plexiglas.
Style
Classical, surrealist, stylized.
I'- Formation artistique (In French)
Dessins
Dans toutes les disciplines techniques : crayons graphite, carbone,
fusain, sauce.
Plumes acier et plumes d'oie. Pinceaux. Pastels fins, huile, aquarelle.
Genres
Graphisme, portraits, nus, paysages, tableaux surréalistes, dessins en
tableaux humoristiques à l'encre de Chine.
Ameublements
Création de meubles : tables, fauteuils, chaises, ensembles : bois,
fibres, plein mousse capitonnages, vitrines, etc...
Sculptures
Dans les matériaux suivants : terre glaise, cire, (pour moulage). Bois,
pierre, marbre, onyx, plexiglas, ivoire.
Genres
Classiques, surréalistes, stylisés, bas reliefs
II- Artist statement:
The classical drawing is the route to all
the art discipline. It is the arm needed to go into the different
domains. It helps the artist to work without difficulties or hesitation,
using his talent and skills. It boots the creativity and every artwork
will end up reflecting, on the artist own style, the moods and feelings
of the present moment.
The artistic life should not be influenced
by rules prevailing in the domain, like the "fashion"
or The"tendency of the day".
This affects badly the creative capacity of an artist and obliges him to
be in a system from where it is hard to get out.
This also reduce his personality, his artistic temper and tendency to
the beauty, pushing him to the easy and quickly made work.
II'- Opinions personnelles
expérimentées et vécues (In French)
Le dessin classique mène à toutes les
disciplines de l'art et permet de s'aventurer dans tous les domaines,
d'exercer sainement et sûrement ses capacités et ses dons sans à coups
ni hésitation. Il mène vers la créativité personnelle en faisant
ressortir ses états d'âme vécus et futurs, ses visions de la vie et
donne la capacité d'exécuter des œuvres dans les disciplines variées de
la créativité momentanée de la vie historique de l'artiste.
Cela m'a permis d'exécuter sans difficulté des œuvres variées dans les
disciplines citées, tout au long de ma vie artistique selon l'état
psychologique du moment vécu.
La vie artistique ne doit pas être
freinée par des règles instaurées par une soi-disant " mode " du moment
ou " tendance du jour " qui annihile la capacité de création d'un
artiste en le contraignant et l'enfermant dans un genre à la mode comme
dans une gangue dans laquelle il se verra enfermé et aura des
difficultés pour en sortir, s'il en a le pouvoir.
Cela étouffe sa personnalité et ses tendances vers le beau et le pousse
vers la facilité, l'amenant carrément à une " prostitution " de son
tempérament artistique et le dirige vers une production artisanale de
l'art vite fait en général actuellement en " vogue " partout.
N.B. Cela sans aucun sens
péjoratif de ma part pour les deux termes employés plus haut.
L'artisanat découle en droite ligne de
l'art et de la création personnelle, mais est produit en milliers
d'exemplaires identiques, contrairement à l'art pictural ou en 3
dimensions, la sculpture.
III- Extracts of articles:
Al-Sayad revue
-Between wood and stone:
…Despite his art on wood, on stone
Panayoti is near of the abstract art, without loosing his humans'
feelings that characterise all his work. A touch of symbolism,
surrealism, and a big fantasy seems to be in the nature of the artist.
The "skirt" is a good example and hides a new dimension, which goes
beyond the subject to reach an atmosphere of meditation.
-The woman:
The woman is almost everywhere in
his work.
The aim on sculpting the body is to reach the beauty as a value.
The work of Panayoti has an expressive force and a unique beauty.
He is a professional in all the materials; he knows how to deal with
them and how to respect them.
Finally, he is giving them the dimension of time: the mythological time,
the present and the future.
His work is a marriage between reality and symbolism.
AL-Anwar newspaper
Panayoti find a part of his
inspiration in the antique Greek art (mythology).
A big lover of Beauty, he sculpts women bodies.
He said: "When a sculptor is able to finish a classic work, a nude, he
is a professional."
Al-Khawater newspaper
What is new in the exhibition of Joseph
Panayoti?
We can see forty wonderful masterpieces in different materials and
sizes.
Under the light, all of those sculptures are superb, done with love and
nicely finished.
They have the touch of this excellent and creative artist who gave them
life.
Hundred eyes visitors have a dialogue with our statues; significations,
symbols call you upon while you are meditating in front of those
talkative statues.
La Revue du Liban
Joseph Panayoti's sculptures are in
different materials and always with a perfect finishing; Nudes in wood,
ivory, Plexiglas or stone, bust-women in onyx Plexiglas or stone. He is
sculpting with a big love and respect for the material. Classic or
stylized, his sculptures are magnificent.
►► Some
of the artist's artwork
►► Meet the artist in Art Direct Sale!
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