Daglis Christos

Studies Personal exhibitions (national or international) / Artwork Group exhibitions (national or international) / Performances / Concerts Other activities Member of organisations national or international

Year of birth:

1916

Year of death:

1991

Place of birth:

Ioannina

Studies

He studied at the Decoration Department of Sivitanideios School

He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Drawing at Constantinos Parthenis’ workshop and Engraving at Yannis Kefallinos’ workshop.

Personal exhibitions (national or international) / Artwork

1963-85: many solo exhibitions

1989: retrospective exhibition of his works at the National Gallery

2001: “Christos Daglis. Inks – Watercolours”, Art Gallery of the Municipality of Athens (51, Piraeus Street)

All of his surviving works have been done during the intervals of his militant life

Group exhibitions (national or international) / Performances / Concerts

Panhellenic Exhibition 1957-60

International Engraving Exhibitions

1963-85: group exhibitions

Other activities

During World War II, he did his military service in Corfu; then he returned to Giannina, where he participated in the “Greek National Liberation Front” and he edited the newpaper “O Agonistis”.

He was an active member of various resistance groups, throughout the war, with frequent arrests. In May 1944 he was arrested and transferred to the “death cell” in Goudi. In 1946 he was exiled to Eudilos in Icaria, Makronisos, Ai Stratis.

During the exile, he participated in the organization and the stage design of theatrical performances.

He made the costumes for the performances of M. Katrakis, Tz. Karousou, G. Gioldasi, K. Baladima, Y. Ritsos, T. Leivaditis, M. Loudemis, D. Fotiadis, F. Anogeianakis, etc, in the plays “Babylonia”, “Perses”, “Othello”, etc.

Member of organisations national or international

In the exhibition catalogue, the director of the Art Gallery of the Municipality of Athens Mrs. Nelli Kyriazi mentions “Daglis traces the landscapes of his vision, projecting, in reality, his interior world, his own mental disposition, leaving for painting a combination of natural and not visible that is far away from the standard landscape”. As far as his brushwork approach is concerned “his contact with the revolutionary movements of the 20^th century in the major museums was not capable of removing the artist from the challenge of the object as a central axis, although his personal searches adopt an advanced abstractiveness in rejecting the descriptive babble”.

“… The density of the strict aesthetic content recalls the engraving austerity, while Daglis managed to channel the force of Greek light that is incorporated in volumes, imposing our sight to seek the measure and the interpretation of the Greek area in the plastic values of his work”.

In 1975, Tatiana Gritsi – Milliex wrote “Daglis is one of the few watercolour craftsmen, there is nothing accidental, the water is as much a material for him as the colour, the metamorphosis becomes from knowledge and retained sensitivity, there is nothing sweet, when he throws a handful of red color on the wall of an island house. A white wall of an island, a white wall of executed, a white wall more recently in the memory, blood fresh, light tragic”.