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    PANDELIS CHANDRIS: “Man is an island”

    - by Efi Spyrou

    Insightful, rigorous and critical but warm interlocutor,
    Pantelis Chandris, the awarded artist by the Association of Art Critics Hellas, talks about his “Island”, the dead ends and the pleasures of life with the tastes for cooking, to fellow artist Efi Spyrou, in Athens.

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    Pantelis Chandris "180⁰", 2010. Pencil on paper. 15x20cm each

    EFI SPYROU: Artist “based in Athens.” What does this means to you?
    PANTELIS CHANDRIS: “Based in Athens”, means nothing. You are considered out of the larger map, out of the game.
    Those who live and work in Athens live and work in a purely regional locality. Artists who live and work in London, New York, Berlin have a more extended target audience and these are cities where things happen.

    What do you do against this reality?
    While I am working on my art projects, I make my living as a professor in the Athens School of Fine Arts.

    Are you teaching what you are working on?
    No. It would be tragic to teach what I am working on.  To work, means trying to find a way to create something. Exploring a personal issue. Besides, the allurement of teaching has to do with the process of dealing with the impasses of others. (more…)

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