The elevated and tangible plausibility of Sorogas’ compositions and the immediacy and flawless execution of his themes is striking. Sorogas focuses on a sparse and fragmentary representation of reality. The strong impression of the particular gives way to a different kind of viewing reversing realistic conventions. The initial familiarity quickly subsides, giving rise to an ambiguous expression of the world with multiple readings and connotations. The parameters of time and memory and the concepts of wear and loss play a leading role in the painting where the material and immaterial, speech and silence, shapes and light, organize an interactive, intuitive framework of the world.
In Yiannis Kastritsis’ compositions nature is rendered with clarity, expressionistic intensity and a gestural writing in direct correlationship with mental and emotional states. He draws with color without unnecessary detail; his brushstroke is free, exuberant and confident, creating space and rhythm transmitted across the surface of the painting. With emotional charge he reveals and transcribes what is hidden with a special sensitivity. His images reflect a psychic world, a completely personal and esoteric way of experiencing situations which give the feeling of springing from the subconscious, tranforming stimuli and memories of landscape in plastic episodes which though depart from reality, simultaneously contain it.
John Bolis, Art historian
