TisF Discovers the Art of Dimitris Michalaros.

Dimitris Michalaros is a Visual Artist who lives and works in Chicago, USA, and Megara, Greece.  Michalaros' artwork comprises mostly kinetic sculptures that address the permeable relationships between object and space, image and sound.  His interest in the identification of the sound into a visual information in an almost synaesthetic sense, which offers to his pieces a means of translating these interactions into a system.  Moving image becomes a form in which the visual interacts with the sonic.  His artwork challenges the perceived ephemerality of technology traditionally contrasted with the timelessness of art.

Michalaros' earliest work consisted of the elements in his constructions which functioned as organs which all together constitute self-contained organisms. Reconfigured, manipulated technological instruments are left exposed.  These exposures challenge the standard expectations of technology, emphasizing less the harmony than the collision and ensuing conversation between materials.

TisF caught up with this Fabulous artist...

What is your idea of Fabulous?
DM: Something wonderful and special that makes you feel wonderful and special.

Who is the most Fabulous person you know?
DM: For me is not just one but two. My parents are the most fabulous persons of my life.

Which Fabulous word do you use most?
DM: Art is definitely the fabulous word that I use the most. Not because I am an Artist, but just because this word is full of colors, sounds, movements, contemplation, sophistication, ideas and I need it so much in this humdrum world.

What is your greatest (most Fabulous) extravagance?
DM: Books.

Where would you like or prefer to live your Fabulous life?
DM: Somewhere next to the sea that I will be able to speak my beautiful language, taste great cuisine and living with smiling people. Mmmmmm, it sounds like Greece.

What do you consider your greatest (most Fabulous) achievement?
DM: To be able to love.

What is your (Fabulous) motto?
DM: To be real and authentic. Seems to be so difficult in our days.

For more information about Dimitris Michalaros please visit: www.dimitrismichalaros.com