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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
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Spyros Kouvaras

An interview by Katherine Williams , curator and Josh Ryder , curator landescape @ europe . com
Choreographer and performer Spyros Kouvaras ' focuses his research on the sculpture tangibility of the bodies , the prolonged duration of the movement and the aesthetic precision to consider the vital relationship between direct experience and visual interpretation . In his OPUS I # temporality that we ' ll be discussing in the following pages he trigger the viewers ' perceptual parameters to draw them through a multilayered , unconventional experience . One of the most impressive aspects of Kouvaras ' work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of creating timeless spaces , by the creation of situations and fields which are interpreted more by the unconscious and less by the logic : we are very pleased to introduce our readers to his stimulating and multifaceted artistic production .
Hello Spyros and welcome to LandEscape : we would start this interview with a couple of questions about your multifaceted background . You studied Graphic Arts in Athens , contemporary dance and choreography-performance in France and you also graduated from European Academy of Physical Theatre in Paris : how did these experiences influence the way you currently conceive and produce your works ? And in particular , how does your cultural substratum due to the relationship between your Greek roots and your current life in France inform the way you relate yourself to the aesthetic problem in general ?
When I started to study Graphic Design , I soon realized that it interested me more as an artistic background and less as a professional practice . At the same time I was always interested in movement , so I turned my orientation to contemporary dance because I found in it a huge horizon of an artistic freedom . My studies and personal research in Graphic Design , Fine Arts and History of Art , were for me a very important knowledge which I used and I am still using in my choreographic work . I believe that my 10 years of