Description
“Apostolos Lavdas’ butterflies and balloons are pulsating; they are in exultation. We see them in the foreground; they look as if tilting up to avoid the friction of the wind, racing to overtake one another; accelerating. Quick lines of various colours forming a feast of dynamic strokes which highlight the spots that emit light and color. Lavdas is a colorist, painting with color and light the design that will transform the shapes into distinct beings, arising as a result of the chromatic action. For our painter, what we see is the colour juice of things. Sources overflowing from thousands of colors which come to the surface from the depths of the form, impetuously claiming life, the presence of the surface. Light is the major regulator of this rite of the spring colour. A delicate touch of red here, two thinner lines a bit further, a light at the unilluminated side of the butterfly, a dynamic blue on the sky, they all state a palette in exultation, brushes in hyperstimulation, a painter who turns his hand into an instrument of an ecstatic ritual where everything is permissible so that they can contribute to the delivery of the subject.”
Haris Kampourides
