While Michael Madenis travelled from Athens to Corinth, onto Nemea and back on a daily basis to teach at local schools, he recorded the endless journeys, the interchangeable landscapes and unreachable horizons to memory and in his soul, in order to revert to them in the studio and depict on canvas the treasures of the Greek landscape through the seasons.
This work, while fervent to describe winter in the Greek countryside, is not lacking in intensely bright colours which, in numerous layers, create an almost relief effect and represent the artist’s need to convey the power of nature. The earth, the foliage, the green horizon below the wintry sky are the elements that compose the work; Madenis remains faithful to expressionist influences and, often, anthropocentric content.
Born in Komotini in 1960, he studied at the Athens School of Fine Art with Panayiotis Tetsis. On a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation, he undertook post-graduate studies at the Free Academy of Visual Art in The Hague. He also works as an art teacher in secondary schools.
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