...About Christos Alevras : Chara Theocharous*
Creator of a specific conjectural conception, sculptor Christos Alevras forms his material- mainly white marble- and elevates it to a bearer of meanings.Relying upon basic, stable axes of the plastic art, traced centuries ago, redefines his material instilling it with new personal questions and answers already shaped in messages.
The primeval shapes of the sphere and the cube, with all the primitive power that they enclose, the simple shape, the harmony of proportions and the potential plasticity, constitute the foundation, the morphoplastic principle upon which the sculptural treatment is registered.
Alevras’ creations declare at first sight their frugal form and they instinctively lead us through it to the primitive, archetypal birth of sculpture. Silently they bridge a distance of centuries from the genesis of sculpture and its first forms to the achievements of abstract rendering. Just like in the beginning, so in its abstract statement the subject- matter is compressed into the tactile perfection of the form, the one which purifies and brightens the natural light and is received mainly through the primary senses of sight and touch.
The subject is shaped outside of the work or inside the form and is not based on an emotional impulse or on an unconscious aesthetic choice, completely interwoven with the need to explore the material and the inner bonding that arises but mainly with a specific sense and awareness.
In Christos Alevras’ work the notion of the evolution and the continuation in life is of high importance. The course of every man is defined by turning points where he is invited to choose the path that he is going to follow. The junction points of the ramifications and the choice of the one of the two routes that he is going to follow are defined in his work by the letter Y.
The reasoning is later transferred onto a more collective plane and refers to man, inhabitant of planet earth and the stance that he himself is expected to maintain towards nature, so that the procession towards a man-copy of himself can be avoided or not.
The matter in Alevras’ work is transformed. The hard marble offers a charming resistance. The balance between the feel of the material and its manipulation is a delicate and arduous work that will eventually bring about the absolute balance and ultimately the solid beauty.
The pursuit of eternal harmony, the solid forms, worked in a technically complete manner, the blending with spirituality represented by the questions, constitute the images of a memory that travels in the past, recreates the sculptural structures in the present but actually aims at the future.
Chara Theocharous
Art Historian.
*Curator of theΤhessaloniki Municipal Art gallery.
The primeval shapes of the sphere and the cube, with all the primitive power that they enclose, the simple shape, the harmony of proportions and the potential plasticity, constitute the foundation, the morphoplastic principle upon which the sculptural treatment is registered.
Alevras’ creations declare at first sight their frugal form and they instinctively lead us through it to the primitive, archetypal birth of sculpture. Silently they bridge a distance of centuries from the genesis of sculpture and its first forms to the achievements of abstract rendering. Just like in the beginning, so in its abstract statement the subject- matter is compressed into the tactile perfection of the form, the one which purifies and brightens the natural light and is received mainly through the primary senses of sight and touch.
The subject is shaped outside of the work or inside the form and is not based on an emotional impulse or on an unconscious aesthetic choice, completely interwoven with the need to explore the material and the inner bonding that arises but mainly with a specific sense and awareness.
In Christos Alevras’ work the notion of the evolution and the continuation in life is of high importance. The course of every man is defined by turning points where he is invited to choose the path that he is going to follow. The junction points of the ramifications and the choice of the one of the two routes that he is going to follow are defined in his work by the letter Y.
The reasoning is later transferred onto a more collective plane and refers to man, inhabitant of planet earth and the stance that he himself is expected to maintain towards nature, so that the procession towards a man-copy of himself can be avoided or not.
The matter in Alevras’ work is transformed. The hard marble offers a charming resistance. The balance between the feel of the material and its manipulation is a delicate and arduous work that will eventually bring about the absolute balance and ultimately the solid beauty.
The pursuit of eternal harmony, the solid forms, worked in a technically complete manner, the blending with spirituality represented by the questions, constitute the images of a memory that travels in the past, recreates the sculptural structures in the present but actually aims at the future.
Chara Theocharous
Art Historian.
*Curator of theΤhessaloniki Municipal Art gallery.