Untitled, c. 1996

Apergis studied painting and engraving at the Athens School of Fine Arts and fresco at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. In his painting, descriptive and imaginary elements, life forms and geometrical patterns are combined to produce a space which is real and at the same time strange, since the various planes interweave in a ceaseless back and forth. His subjects are drawn from everyday reality, human interaction, but also from deep reflection on history and the past. The eye of the viewer is attracted by reflections, shimmerings, movements of bodies, ruins of forgotten cities, archaeological finds - all testimony to a contemporary struggle, as the old and familiar converse with the new and the strange. The game with time and the linking of apparently heterogeneous subjects in Apergis's compositions leads to a personal surrealism, replete with ambivalent and enigmatic features.