Michelis

The white marble figures of Greek sculptor Michelis can be gauged in their similarities and departures from his nation’s ancient style, with subjects culled from mythology while his shapes mark a modern departure from form. His titles earmark familiar, paradigmatic characters from the classical period of ancient Greece’s art history, aligning Michelis with a very formal, figurative tradition rooted in the study of anatomy. Meanwhile, his faces and bodies are decidedly modern, stripped and stylized, over-emphasizing facial features into stretched caricature, flattening lines and ridges into swooping surfaces.