Untitled

In Yorgos' Tsakiris early works, both paintings and prints, the influence of Francis Bacon's painting is evident, while numbers and mathematical symbols, elements of Greek and Latin script, which form words and phrases, are incorporated into the compositions. The years around 1980 mark Tsakiris' definitive transition to three-dimensional constructions. Most are totemic in form and their placement in space creates a sense of art that is closer to ritual. In the 1990s, living organisms are presented in front of the viewers in artificial ecosystems that Tsakiris creates in the exhibition spaces. This time art is not transported outdoors, but natural functions are installed in the exhibition space.
At the same time, in the 1990s, Tsakiris created a series of drawings, including the work "Untitled", where organic and technical elements are juxtaposed, often referring to a mutational process, which emphasizes the temporal dimension of a biological necessity. The cocoons of the drawings, symbols of the gestation of a mutational process, coil and explode. The red spots that mark the works resemble nuclei of life ready to come to fruition. In the metal construction, organic and technical elements are aptly juxtaposed: the fragility of the eggs with the solidity of the metal, their curved form with the strict geometry of the stems that hold them, their reproductive capacity with the sterility of the technical means. Nature is depicted as being supported or enclosed by the tools protruding into space.