PHOTO:Dimitris Lempesis

Through his lens Dimitris Lempesis observes and records the landscapes of Greece, initially and then he is spiriting in the “Neighborhoods of the World”, not with the passion and the discipline of a documentarist but with the insatiable eye of the artist. That is why, his subjects, forms and light, do not obey the regular rules and forms of photography only, but mostly the rules of painting -landscape painting- in combination with architecture. So landscapes externally dissimilar like the one of Delos Island, converses with Meteora through the blue sky and that of Hydra Island to the particular architecture of Paris and Rome, from the series the ”The Face of the City”, they coexist and stand side to side, with a common axis and conceptual starting point of contemporary art and the multiple readings that can offer us, in matters already known, but expressed in new ways, ideas and thoughts. Dimitris Lempesis is not interested only on iconography but the freedom that is offered to him by the landscape, the nature. Something that for others is an obstacle and have the need of delimitation, enables him to reposition and redefine his limits since every image for him, every landscape contains sociological labeling, through the ultimate abstraction. For him, the horizon does not represent the beauty and the retinal lubricity, but the lines that unite the mind and soul of the artist, the philosopher, the politician, the thinker… These are the mirrors of the personal experiences, struggles and concerns raised and carried by the artist, as he was deeply Politically aware, uncompromising, really free, but saw his vision to be betrayed and trivialized, through the social and political frustration, art helps him to transmute his experiences into images, creating through landscape, atopy, subtracting essentially every local element that refers to the specific, creating a personal human geography.-Efi Michalarou