Antonis Donef: Time's witness

In his fifth exhibition at Kalfayan Galleries, Antonis Donef declares himself a Time's witness, transforming the gallery space into a "library of time" where anything can happen, and all interpretations are possible. His work is both a renegotiation of knowledge and time. Remaining true to the fundamental elements of his technique—interventions on pages where knowledge is gathered (archival printed materials such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps, etc.) and the organic development of the design with ink in the form of automatic writing—Antonis Donef adds more color to his new works in an effort, as he states, "to capture an even larger piece of time with his painting."Labyrinthine iconography, calligraphic design, humor, the conscious and the unconscious, the visible and the invisible, memory, knowledge, and imagination coexist harmoniously in the multi-layered painting surfaces of Antonis Donef, which act as "open books."

A monumental size diptych of Antonis Donef will be presented in June at Unlimited (cur. Giovanni Carmine, Director of Kunst Halle St. Gallen) as part of the participation of Kalfayan Galleries at Art Basel.

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