Landscape 

Spyros Papaloukas's Landscape presents a bird’s-eye view of a village nestled among verdant hills, rendered with a muted palette and a focus on geometric forms. The buildings are simplified into cubes and cylinders, while the trees are suggested with broad, flat planes of green. The composition, seemingly a straightforward representation, is more complex when viewed through a structuralist lens. Papaloukas plays with the contrast between organic and geometric shapes. The architectural forms, rendered in cool whites and greys, are sharply defined against the softer, undulating greens of the natural landscape. The artist destabilizes traditional landscape painting by prioritizing form and structure over realistic representation. The surface of the painting becomes a site where the signs of landscape—trees, buildings, sky—are rearranged and reconfigured. This calls into question the very idea of a fixed, objective representation, suggesting instead a subjective construction of reality. The painting's visual architecture reflects Papaloukas' exploration of modernism and its engagement with the underlying structures of perception and representation.