The multidimensional artistic practice of Eftihis Patsourakis explores a variety of questions such as individual and collective memory, identity and reexamination of the image, by combining wider social and cultural references with specific reinterpretations of modern art history. Patsourakis uses trivial materials (post-it papers, cigarette butt covers, photograph cuts) that become structural elements of the picture, mainly through their repetitive use. As evident references to the aesthetics of the minimalistic object as well as the aesthetics of modern painting, these everyday small objects turn into signs when cleverly placed with an absolute sense of equitable scale. His work moves between the aesthetics of the sublime (erhaben), the mechanistic and abstractive sensitivity of minimalism and in a dimension of banal pop innovation.

Sotiris Bahtsetzis 2007 (abridged)