The exhibition ‘After the first frost’ unfolds as a process of moving around a forest setting visually, physically and conceptually. The forest’s tangible qualities—the rough texture of tree trunks, the branches, the foliage, the terrain and the dirt tracks—and also the hut as a sign of human presence and temporary habitation appear or return on my surfaces as traces and gestures, reflecting the relationship between the experience of the actual place and its artistic reconstruction. The painted surface acts as a space where the landscape is created through the notion of contemplation and memory. 

This is a body of work that carries the procedure of a constant transmutation, as the surfaces receive consecutive changes from layers of colour. The forms are erased and reformed by small, repetitive and neurotic gestures. Under one layer of material lies a second one, and under that there is a third; underlying all of them is a first image that is drawn, erased, built anew and constantly changing. 

The original image becomes distant and ends up as a hint. Painting here functions as a means for accessing forest scenes, while the artistic practice does not describe the place but retains the property of something uncharted. Each dense layer of paint, each gesture across the smaller or larger expanses of canvas, wood and paper ‘builds’ a new notional environment. 

Short Bio

Dimitris Efeoglou (b.1986) holds a master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), and a bachelor’s degree from the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH).

He has exhibited his work in five solo and two duo shows in Greece and has participated in numerous group exhibitions at museums, arts spaces, and art fairs both in Greece and abroad. 

In 2011, he represented Greece at the 15th Biennale of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, and in 2019 he was awarded the Artworks Fellowship by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. His work is part of international private and public collections.

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