Junk Food
Flyer, promotional items, photographs are the materials that Tzortzis Tataylalis used to form the figures of the exhibition. Such an activity started as a game originated by mere curiosity for where this could end and what the result would be. It is a result that surprised happily the creator and which we invite you to enjoy.
Collage and Tzortzis
Collage is a rather unusual and consequently not so popular artistic expression that requires great technical skill, sensibility and daring -even rampant- imagination. The primary material used by the creator is usually qualitatively distinct, at times non-precious, having no aesthetic pretentions and what is more “second hand”. However, it is this search and composition through the collage that gives a new aesthetic dimension, an artistic autonomy in this mosaic of countless, different tesserae. Though, it’s neither painting, nor graphic arts, nor animation. It is collage.
Pictures, posters, patterns, leaflets, handouts, magazine pages, pictures taken from books or newspapers, reproduction of well or little-known works and even unpredictable decorative materials such as packages and brochures, everything is a challenge for the creator as well as a triggering for a new dialogue, for a new suggestion on a new dimension. Collage, thanks to its plot and diversity of materials, unleashes in a totally different way not only the artist’s imagination but also the emotions that he and his work transmit. Nostalgia, romance, poetry, vehemence, humor, self-sarcasm, frolic ,complaint..
Not many Greek people got involved in the art of collage. The most famous of course is Odysseus Elytis.
Tzortzis is involved, either professionally or not, in many distinct artistic fields: Clothing, composition, decoration and collage. He is involved intensively, creatively but discreetly. His collage paintings depict only one aspect of his skills. They display the verve of his imagination as well as the unease of his feelings. He says that: “It all started as a game”. This game, eventually, turned into a serious and robust case in his hands.
Christos Christodoulou Journalist-Writer
Translation: Ioanna Xefteri
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