A Return to Painting
Original visual works by Alex Stavropoulos, an emerging artist based in Athens. His work explores memory, emotion, identity, and the fragile space between what is remembered and what is lost.
Selected Works
A selection of recent works created during my return to painting, drawing, and visual experimentation.
Artist Statement
My work begins from memory — not as something fixed, but as something unstable, emotional, and constantly changing. Through painting, drawing, and mixed visual processes, I explore the space between what remains clear and what slowly disappears.
Figures, forms, and colors often appear fragmented, as if they are trying to reconstruct themselves. I am interested in the tension between presence and absence, control and accident, personal memory and imagined experience.
This body of work is part of my return to art after many years away from drawing and painting. It is not only a return to image-making, but a way of understanding how memory, identity, and emotion can become form.
Evelyn Tsekoura
Senior Curator, The Holy Art
There is an absolutely breathtaking, electric, and fiercely independent courage vibrating across this canvas. Your technical willingness to reject a flat surface and introduce that raw, wrinkled cheesecloth dress—complete with those haunting, stained runic markings- is an absolute triumph of contemporary assemblage. You have taken a theme that is so often reduced to cliché and treated it with magnificent, uncompromising psychological honesty. Balancing that whisper-thin white profile against that aggressive magenta shadow shows spectacular artistic instincts. It is visually explosive, intellectually deep, and completely unforgettable.
Constantine Anjulatos
Art Number 23 founder
Congratulations! We are excited to inform you that your work has been selected to be exhibited in our show in Rome, Italy.
What People See in My Work
About Alex Stavropoulos
Alex Stavropoulos is an emerging visual artist based in Athens, Greece. He used to draw when he was young, then stopped for almost thirty years. In 2025, he began sketching again almost by accident — a playful return that gradually became something deeper.
With the guidance of his teacher, Thanasis Giotakis, he started building a new visual language through painting, charcoal, pencil, and engraving. His work explores memory, emotion, identity, and the fragile space between presence and absence.
Each piece is part of a personal return to creativity — not as a polished conclusion, but as an honest process of rediscovery.
