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Interview of the artist Mrs. Maria Papafili by Mrs. Zeta Tzioti, for the Greek week-end

financial newspaper “Axia” (Value) of the 31/3/2019 (http://axianews.gr/).

Mrs. Tzioti owns the facebook magazine “Artviews” https://www.facebook.com/artviews.gr/

"In the traces of the aura"

Individual exhibition of the artist Maria Papafili at the gallery "Argo"

The artist, Mrs. Maria Papafili, beyond the serious academic background that she has in Art,

has the ability with her paintings to magnetize the look of the audience. A student of

important Greek and French professors, Papafili presents her new work at the "Argo" gallery

in the center of Athens under the title "In the traces of the aura" until April 20th.

At a glance that hides sensitivity, the painter identifies and highlights the sparkle and

grandeur of the faces she chooses to imprint on the paper. Exotic persons from a fairy tale,

from places far away, look at us with perceptive eyes, letting us look at the mirror of their

soul and discover their life experience.

According to art historian and art theorist of culture, Mrs. Athina Schina, "in these sensual

paintings, disarming the viewer with their immediacy and honesty, a creepy lyricism,

impregnable by a latent eroticism, appears positively”.

-Expressive looks that magnetize; exotic faces. How happened that they are your source of

inspiration?

Man-centered and experiential painting. What pictures capture your attention so you

want to keep them in your memory?

For some specific reason, I started to work one day with topics from places that are

considered to be "exotic" for us. I painted the natural environment, plants, flowers, animals,

but also the people who are always at the center of my interest as a painter. At the same

time, what I was seeing at airports, on the streets, in the media, in the books, did that what I

started by chance became very big and charmed me.

My subject has changed, my favorite place to fill my paintings, Greece, has given way to

places far away, from other continents and so different but also so similar to us people.

Their diversity gave me the opportunity to explore with my painting common elements of all

of us. The magnetism of the eyes where the personality is expressed, the "soul", what I

called the "aura", something that we all have in common, but that in some of us is more

prominent and intense, something that does not leave me indifferent but impresses me

enormously. I keep in my memory these human forms and I like to create my works with

them as a theme. Someone said in the past that I was imposing on the forms that I was

painting. Now the opposite is the case, the forms that I see are imposed upon me.

I like the landscape, but this comes as assistance to my work, where the human figures are

central.

- In what places have you traveled and what did you get from them?

I confess it may seem strange that I do not like traveling, but I am travelling very often. On

my travels, the artworks that I create act as my personal diary.

- What techniques have you experimented with?

Initially, during my studies in Greece I was mainly using oil paints.

When I went to Paris for postgraduate studies, it was as if I was relieved; I was given the

opportunity and the impetus to experiment with enthusiasm with all the techniques. I was

given the extraordinary opportunity to learn the texture and the aesthetic result of all kinds

of materials that available to an artist. I gained new knowledge and experiences that are

precious for my work.

The artworks currently exhibited by the Argo Gallery in Athens are the result of my particular

experimentation, which I am doing since a few years, with color pencils, tempera, collage

and watercolor as I work almost exclusively on notebooks, mainly watercolors’ ones.

- Color and light. How important is their role in your portraits?

The color and natural light, as it changes during the day (I do not like the artificial light, I

prefer to paint during the day), are the two most important elements in my painting.

Especially in the portraits that I paint now, the color of people's skin, their clothing, the

special color and the light of the landscape in which their figures are moving have an

essential role in my work.

- You have been a student of important teachers in Greece and abroad. What have you

gained from them?

All my professors, in Greece and France, gave me a lot of knowledge and experience; they

have influenced me a lot as both a painter and as a woman. Among them I was fortunate

and happy to learn from particularly important people such as Moralis and Mytaras* who

left us, as well as my good friend and former teacher Mrs. Marina Lambraki Plaka**, and my

former professor in Paris the artist Mr. Velikovic.

- Would you like to mention some of their words that you remember...?

Everybody was saying to us "pay attention to the drawing" which is the basis of every art

project.

Professor Moralis told us that every artistic problem has its solution in the museums where

we can study the works of other painters and see how they tackled technical issues that

concern us; he was recommending to us to be honest in what we are doing as artists and

never to cheat; he was assuring us that freedom comes through hard work.

- Which artists influenced you?

It is difficult but also very useful, as I mentioned earlier and interesting to observe and

analyze. I have taken insights from many sides, but I believe that I have a personal style in

my painting, that has not been influenced, at least consciously, by some particular artist.

I certainly like very much to see and study, in museums and exhibitions, works from the

Renaissance to the present day. We can always get something from each artwork. From the

art history I am interested in the creations of artists such as Klee, Rembrandt, Velazquez,

Bonar, Renoir, Dyrer, Van Gogh, the poetic aspect of Chagall, and the importance that gave

to color and light movements such as French Impressionism and German Expressionism.

- Have you received positive feedback from amateurs and collectors on this subject?

This is the first time that I present this theme in an exhibition and I watch with interest the

opinion of the people visiting the Argo art gallery. Already very interesting first comments

have been heard. Also very interesting are the critics of Mrs. Schina and Mrs. Rogan*** who

made a very good analysis of my new work.

-Future plans

I wish I will be ok in the future so I will be able to always paint. I do not know how my work

will evolve, and this is very interesting in an artist's life. I look forward to go ahead with what

I am doing today and to discover what I will do tomorrow. One thing for which I am sure is

that what I will do, will not be influenced by commercial considerations, trends in the visual

arts, or established tastes.

Maria Papafili, "In the traces of the aura". Argo art gallery, Neofytou Douka 5, 10674,

Kolonaki, Athens, Greece. Phone +302107249333. Duration of the exhibition, up to the

20/04/2019.

* Important Greek artists

** Director of the National Gallery in Athens

*** Two of the most prominent art critics in Greece