A prominent exponent of the contemporary avant-garde who represented Greece at the 2005 Venice Biennale, George Hadjimichalis aspires to a complete and absolute break with academic tenets and conventional aesthetics without renouncing his native, age-long visual tradition and cultural roots. "Looking at Hadjimichalis' art, one is convinced that he uses the past to make a contemporary work of art."1 In this subversively beautiful painting, he penetrates into the inner world of the Greek landscape, becomes part of its fragmented reality and archetypal structure and then recomposes it in an original and unconventional way.

1 K. Sarris, 'George Hadjimichalis, Defining the Terms of the Problem', Interview, Arti journal, no. 7, November-December 1991, p. 138.