Pavlos
(Dionyssopoulos) (1930-)
The trademark of Pavlos Dionyssopoulos , known simply as Pavlos, is his avant-garde use of paper.
Using coloured paper, Pavlos creates relief-like works that hang like canvases, paper constructions, and even
paper environments - such as a room full of life-size paper trees.
Pavlos began experimenting with paper in the '60s, using shredded posters and magazines to make collages. Renowned
art critic Pierre Restany labelled him a "New Realist without knowing it" . Pavlos created still-lives with
fruit, collars and ties, jackets, curtains, hats, coats, even a park of cypress trees. His art, intricate and
truly unique, communicates to both adults and children through colourful forms and "joie de vivre" .
Pavlos was born in Filiatra in the Pelopponese . He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1949-53), and later at the Academie de la Grande
Chaumiere in France. He has lived in Paris since 1958.
Pavlos has exhibited in many prestigious galleries worldwide, and represented Greece at the 1980 Venice Biennale.
In 1997, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki hosted a major retrospective, which
transferred to the Athens School of Fine Arts' Factory ( "Ergostasio" ).
