Filippos Tsitsopoulos

Performance, Painter and Multimedia artist.

Videos: the recreation of figures, like theatrical plays. Frightening yet compelling! Strange creatures with human figures.

See the film on the Saatchi Gallery website http://video.saatchigallery.com/artist/profile/14256/Filippos+Tsitsopoulos/www.duveberlin.com

'Displacement is propel things from its present site, present place, transported them in another Dimension and gives them another use.

Turn off your brain to feed better the eyes

This issues are applying to figures that are desconected and the displacement gives to them a new identity. For example the San Sebastian Bomber you displace as well the meaning of the saint and replace him into the world of Terrorism.

But also means the explosion of the values socielly talking, and sufering religiously talking that as an example of a legend that needs a modern example for its understandingness.

All the arcetypes in the human brain, has the security of an end, we can accept the word like death of something physical.

The Idea to prolonge this timeline of life change the subject and the meaning of a life(a heroes life)for instance and re-produce a whole sceen of replacement of values.

I use to caracter life in me and myself and my face as a possible prolonge of this actitude.

Displacement is the constact word to think inverted.

Displacement are martyrs of self skin changes.

Displacement in the new reality, mostly when things are over.

In the 1920 sort off most people have portraits especially in England when they are diseased, or passed by. This commun use is to give to other people the last image.
After that point the image "dies with thee"(material, memory, symbol).

The imaginary distortion of transporting the image belongs to a no accept of an end.
You imagine that people are growing and also distorcioned with their new image even after death, the subject of the physical death of course with the extension of the soul that we give to them after death.

Each portrait of this serie is conceived as death parts of the human me autobiographical and imaginery that tranformed into a new life.

This continue no ending of things, of the values, of issues of reason produces the new identity, the icon of the aura as material made form, that even the suffering the final suffering isnt enough to a life,makes the person a martyr of his new identity of his new life.'

FILIPPOS TSITSOPOULOS (http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/view_blog/4113/showdown_saatchi_filippos%3Cbr%3Etsitsopoulos_concept)