On Friday the 30th of January opens at ASTROLAVOS artlife gallery (Irodotou 11, Kolonaki) an exhibition of works by the artist Diamadis Diamadopoulos.

A series of works, mainly from his early creative period, will give to the uninitiated visitors a taste of the work of this important artist.From the early stages of his creation Diamadopoulos has shaped a very personal style despite the fact that he has been greatly influenced by the colors and style of the fauvist painters.

Giving particular emphasis to plastic painting values, through the simplification and molding of shapes, he managed to portray the human form in various phases, in familiar spaces that many times became mysterious and enigmatic.Through the course of time Diamadopoulos has achieved in giving great expressional dimensions when depicting labor people.By the use of symbols, bigger shapes, monumental forms and a wide range of colors, he managed to give to his works a powerful, solid structure as well as an evocative atmosphere.The genuineness of his panting as well as his expressional language composes a very special work that gives great importance in plastic shapes and composition.

DIAMANTIS DIAMANTOPOULOS (1914- 1995)

Born in Magnisia, Asia Minor. He came to Athens after the Asia Minor destruction in 1922.His aptitude for painting became evident ever since he was a child, when he published and exhibited several of his works. From 1931 to 1936 he studied at the School of Fine Arts next to the teachers Biskini and Partheni. He studied painting in depth through the works of the teachers of metaphysics from whom he absorbed and used various elements by using his personal style.

He has been closely connected to Tsarouhi and has worked with similar to him themes both in painting as well as in stage design.He created his own personal style and worked for the last years of his life in total isolation.Apart from some exhibitions that he had when he was young he also exhibited in ORA (1975, 1980, 1982) and in the National Gallery in 1978 were he exhibited a big retrospective of his work.

He died in 1995.