Ge
orge Kalakallas
 
self-confidence and modelling truth. Without any interest for the supplementary elements, he achieves in making his works speak wih their own voice, stressing their modelling formulations, the biomorphical or geometrical themes, the vertical, horizontal, diagonal or curvilinear characteristics. In this way, he ends up in an engraving work characterised by its promptness, its expressive power and its modelling truth. In any and all thematological regions and stylistical directions that the artist moves, he achieves in stressing the essential and the determinative, the eternal and the universal. It is a sculpture not intimidated by the passing of time, because it is based on the making worth of the expressive possibilities of the materials themselves and the integrity and the truth of its artistic language.

 

 

CHRYSANTHOS A. CHRISTOU

Emeritus Professor of History of Art

Member of the Academy of Athens.