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Exhibition // Despina Stokou’s Installation Paintings

Berlin Art Link Discover, Art Work by Despina Stokou; courtesy courtesy the artist and Galerie EIGEN + ART Leipzig/Berlin, photo by Uwe Walter

Blog post by AJ Kiyoizumi – in Berlin; Tuesday, Apr. 15, 2014.

Despina Stokou‘s work has been compared to Jean-Michel Basquiat’s in that they both execute colorfully layered paintings that operate at both minute and distanced viewpoints. But Stokou’s current show at Eigen + Art Lab is memorable in that viewing her painted works is like an archaeological dig through our collective knowledge of recent popular culture, and involves…[read on…]