Aris Kalaizis

The Leipzig painter Aris Kalaizis does not work according to sketches, but rather creates a script like a screenwriter does. All of the objects, all of the figures which we see on the final painting are creations which arise from a written form. For him, writing is an intimate journal, a kind of record of thought. After completing this “script” he does not work according to a single photograph, but rather follows several photographs, which he has taken himself, distinguishing him from the photorealists who do not challenge us to a new reality.