A multidimensional sound event-documentary combining the historical narration of visual artist Costas Tsoclis with an original musical composition by Dimitris Maragopoulos.
A captivating journey through words, image, and music: memories, personal quests, the great movements of Art, Tsoclis’s international presence, his travels, and a survey of the most significant works from the eight periods of his creative career, through which the anguished character of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st unfolds.
From the very first moment, my encounter with Costas Tsoclis’s recorded autobiographical testimony was a decisive one. Beneath his seemingly unemotional narration, I felt a multidimensional world unfolding, full of personal experiences, refined and profound thoughts, and emotions, all of which were organically connected to the external historical and cultural reality, itself in constant change. Eight decades of creative work and of a life’s journey through a Greece, and a Europe, full of tension, unrest, change and wars, but also of creation. Our shared wish to collaborate resulted in this sound piece, accompanied by a sparse visual element. The voice of this leading visual artist, together with all that it carries, worked in concert with the music and, in an unexpected way, created something entirely new and autonomous. In any case, I had approached his text cryptographically, from within, attempting to penetrate the deeper layers of his speech, which he cleverly kept protected from superficial listening and communication. My experience of this coexistence was unique, and I feel it as a stroke of good fortune and a blessing.
Dimitris Maragopoulos
IN COLLABORATION WITH
the “Costas Tsoclis Museum” Municipal Foundation in Tinos
