Alevras Christos
Critics
Creator of a specific conjectural conception, sculptor Christos Alevras
forms his material- mainly white marble- and elevates it to a bearer
of meanings.
Relying upon basic, stable axes of the plastic art, traced centuries
ago, redefines his material instilling it with new personal questions
and answers already shaped in messages.
The primeval shapes of the sphere and the cube, with all the primitive
power that they enclose, the simple shape, the harmony of proportions
and the potential plasticity, constitute the foundation, the morphoplastic
principle upon which the sculptural treatment is registered.
Alevras' creations declare at first sight their frugal form and they
instinctively lead us through it to the primitive, archetypal birth
of sculpture. Silently they bridge a distance of centuries from the
genesis of sculpture and its first forms to the achievements of abstract
rendering. Just like in the beginning, so in its abstract statement
the subject- matter is compressed into the tactile perfection of the
form, the one which purifies and brightens the natural light and is
received mainly through the primary senses of sight and touch.
The subject is shaped outside of the work or inside the form and is
not based on an emotional impulse or on an unconscious aesthetic choice,
completely interwoven with the need to explore the material and the
inner bonding that arises but mainly with a specific sense and awareness.
