Dimitris Zouroudis was born in Piraeus. He studied at the First Painting Laboratory of the Athens School of Fine Arts, A.S.F.A. (with Dimitris Mytaras) and the Postgraduate Studies program “Digital Forms of Art” of the Visual Arts Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts. He lives and works in Athens and Thessaloniki. He is a professor of Painting, Director of the 1st Painting Laboratory and President of the Department of Visual and Applied Arts at the Aristotle University. He taught at the Postgraduate Studies program “Digital Forms of Art” of the Visual Arts Department of the Athens School of Fine Arts (2002-2012). Member Board of Administration of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) 2017-2022.
His art work can be found in public collections (National Galllery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum, MOMus – Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki, Benaki Museum, Vorres Museum, E. Averoff Museum, Rethymnon Center For Contemporary Art) and private collections.
He has had 16 solo exhibitions and has participated in over 30 group exhibitions. He has organized more than 10 group exhibitions and has participated in over 15 research projects and Scientific Conferences, while at the same time he has been teaching since 2002 until today. More than 100 critical notes have been published for his artistic work by critics, art historians and Museum curators.
His work in presented in thematic categories and being exhibited as installations. As means of expression he uses traditional techniques, random found objects, digitally processed images and videos, which he combines with the manual practice of embroidery, trying to discuss matters of the contemporary art. His compositions pursue to explore acts with ideological background and matters of religious fanaticism. The correlation of the used communicative symbols produces messages that pursue the awareness of the viewer.
Artist statement
The inversion of expressive means, for example, the real thread being a painted thread, and the small aspect that emerges in a clear visible detail in some way creates, probably, a welcoming new unorthodoxy.
email: dimitriszouroudis@gmail.com
Notes—experiments, a reciprocal correspondence of seeing. An attempt to integrate the chaotic into a balanced composition, or conversely, to rearrange balance in pursuit of a chaotic configuration.
This persistent endeavour stems from our inability to explain our own existence without constructing a sense of identity through which to perceive it.
The viewer is invited to confront these two possibilities: order within chaos, or chaos within order. In either case, what remains is a note—a slow, laborious manual process, unjustifiable perhaps, yet ultimately consoling.
Micro Function I, 2014, 100 × 100 cm, acrylic paint and embroidered cotton thread on prepared cotton fabric.
Μicro function II, 2014, 100 × 100 cm, acrylic paint and embroidered cotton thread on prepared cotton fabric
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