Having studied stage design, painting and sculpture, Sotos Alexiou then applied himself to a broad field of interests, developing his artistic activity in three main areas. He came into contact with modern non-figurative artistic trends early in his career, while doing his post-graduate work in the USA. Despite that, he has always remained an admirer of the classical art of antiquity and the simplicity of Doric lines, and has developed his own personal language, based on the harmonious principles of geometry combined with the expressive severity offered by the abstract form. With these serving as his perceptual basis, he creates two-dimensional paintings or three-dimensional sculptural compositions which arise from the unadorned combinations of linear or volumetric geometric shapes, sometimes placing the emphasis on color and other times on design.
In Capricorn 29, grounded on simple geometric shapes, full or partial in some cases, and on the juxtaposition of metallic “rods”, vertically placed, the artist renders in a minimalistic manner the relationships of equilibrium between the full parts, which create the geometric shapes themselves, and the empty parts which are created between them, thus realizing his intent that “his sculpture be like a Doric column; simple and powerful, so that it can breath”. 1
1. Ζυγός, iss. 8, Μάιος-Ιούνιος 1974, p. 55.
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Ανοξείδωτο μέταλλο
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Inventory number Π.6375Π.6375
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Εθνική Πινακοθήκη - Μουσείο Αλεξάνδρου Σούτζου
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National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum
