22/09/2026
COMING SOON:
Dimitris Neveskiotis
“We were never really here”
Opening: Thursday 24 September, 19:00 – 21:00
The text accompanying the exhibition is written by Christos Parides.
A few thoughts about Dimitris Neveskiotis
The trajectory may seem expected, but it is by no means a given: painter, sculptor, ceramicist. In this order, from his studies to the present day, these three identities point to the steps that Dimitris Neveskiotis has taken, ultimately arriving at the place from which he essentially began: painting. Even if it may appear that he is devoted to ceramics. For although the practice with which he feels most at home is indeed pottery, in the end everything leads back to painting. It is no coincidence that, whenever he describes his work, the expression “ceramic canvas” repeatedly comes up. [...]
Drawing on a remarkable arsenal of ideas inspired by music, but above all by the cinematic universes of Kubrick, Pasolini, Jodorowsky and Lanthimos, he gives form to situations that transcend reality: a flying saucer beside newborn babies; a man boxing with a lobster; a procession of submissive pilgrims advancing into the unknown; sirens and birds with human heads; putti, flowers, meanders. Like a distorting mirror reflecting the human condition and its history, these compositions usually emerge when the ceramic artworks—and, occasionally, the ceramic slabs—have already come out of the kiln. Confronted with them, he works almost automatically, almost reflexively, responding to a fleeting impulse, with his imagination and creativity as his allies. And so, all his stimuli are released, and through his brush parades a circus of half-civilized, strange beings that come to define his iconography, articulating, whether subconsciously or even consciously, his personal social concerns and political perspective.
One cannot help but wonder: if all this rabble and disgrace are indeed real, has nothing truly changed over the centuries, from the origins of humankind to the present day? Or are we simply living through renewed variations of the human species?
Neveskiotis Dimitris
