Dionisios Fragias
Greek
The free-standing sculptures and “hybrid” paintings/wall-sculptures by Dionisios Fragias often place a contemporary spin on imagery derived from the Bible, ancient Greco-Roman myths, and current societal ritual utilizing the lessons they teach to comment upon mankind’s cyclical and competing tendencies toward creation and destruction. His work focuses on a specific area of man’s duality – the propensity to take action and dominate when he senses a void in any sphere of society. Whether the vacuum to be filled allows for the furtherance of a cultural, scientific and political agenda, or the gap being occupied permits exploitative and abusive uses of power, Dionisios suggestively presents both sides of the same coin.
Fragias compares and contrasts the visceral human compulsion to assume control of nature’s own inner workings. The work traces and relates this need for urgent action with the way nature’s phenomena occur even down to the level of sub-atomic physics. Other examples include: A high-pressure system in climate will move its air toward a low one creating wind. Water will flow to fill an opening in the earth. A beta animal will rush in to kill a wounded alpha male and take over leadership (something occurring in large scale with certain regimes in parts of the world).
Submitted by FREMIN GALLERY
