Pavlos Dionyssopoulos

“My philosophy is to show others, in everyday objects, the most ordinary, the closest to man, a little joy, magic, beauty. »Pavlos, 2005. Dionyssopoulos Pavlos was born in Greece in 1930. He passed the entrance examination to the School of Fine Arts in 1949. During his studies, he obtained several scholarships to continue his studies in Paris. When he made the decision to settle there permanently, at the end of the 1950s, he discovered the Paris of the New Realists. He then frequents Calder, Giacometti and of course César, Yves Klein and Pierre Restany. His workshop is located rue de Vaugirard opposite that of Dubuffet. The new urban environment in which Pavlos is immersed takes him away from painting. He thus began to use cut poster paper. He works on the effects of density, colors and reliefs of the slices of posters he uses. He then began to work with passion, following the internal logic of his material and discovered an essential element of his artistic language. This work distinguished him from the “poster artists” of the time (Hains, Villéglé, Rotella) and enabled him to be noticed at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in 1963 by Pierre Restany, inspirer and theorist of the New Realists group. This meeting opens up new horizons for him and will determine the orientations of his future work. But the work of Pavlos evolves quickly. The artist abandons abstraction and the baroque to explore the possibilities of a new expressiveness. By making his bands suggest the form of everyday objects, Pavlos moves away from New Realism and approaches Pop Art. However, he remains a free electron in the art world, he does not engage in any movement.