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With regards to Annie
Annie Sofianopoulou is an artist who is aware of how to handle her material and how to realise her ideas with especially successful results. She has the way so that her art can revive the space and inspire feelings. A key role in her work is the form, the colour, the material, elements which through the combinations with her skill do not lose their natural-organic texture. With consistency, commitment to quality and high aesthetics, Annie creates an important and immediate work which drafts the viewer away to dreamy worlds. Without being attached to the past, she honours Pissarro, Monet, the past and Pop Art and she shows her gratitude to the importance of folk weaving Greek art because they assist the process of creation. She knows how with her work to raise questions and at the same time to help you become partaker of the story which she develops in two dimensions and that is a virtue quite uncommon. I really like the tales she weaves. She creates her stories with the mastery and accuracy of a clockmaker, which miraculously everything works perfectly like a machine. Her work is distinguished for its high quality, ergonomics and excellent finish. Annie, thank you for our co-operation and I wish you the best for the future!...
Paiko, 2 September 2017

‘In contrast to modern and concrete urban times when a man isolates himself in his closed world, Annie Sofianopoulou’s painting acts like a paper board of transition to the Nature’s triumphant dominance. Like a resilient reminder of the primitive connection of the human with it, setting familiar pictures or by recomposing them through her creative imagination from the beginning. Moving through the expressive rhythms of a vivid pop-art figural depiction which often matches with the fragile atmosphere of a fairy tale, the artist gives the main role of her whole work to animals of the wild fauna, a thing which undoubtedly hides a symbolism. More especially, on the surfaces of big canvases, central are the figures of the wild animals which are surrounded by a shaped floral frame-pattern, denoting their natural habitat. Their shapes, which are realistic, either look straight at the viewer’s eyes, like the imposing tiger, or are in movement, like the leopard which is depicted on its jump or the panther which stands hesitantly as it is ready to attack and face any danger. Therefore, the symbolism remains clear. The wild animals in Sofianopoulou’s work are developed to symbols of power, fight and freedom, while as Sofianopoulou herself points out the plants act in parallel as symbols of life and revival. In some of her other works, the artist integrates in her compositions the human presence and especially the female one. Created in a way pointing to retro/pop roots, intensively formalised and stylized, the female figures are found placed in gardens blossomed with colourful roses and look towards the viewer. Somewhere, we can find a woman touching gently a zebra in a blossomed place. As much as the way of developing the shapes as the surrounding area which embraces them, convey the feeling of a rose female romanticism of a past time which could be a reality or an idea of our ideal fantasy. The woman in Art has always been connected to Mother Nature and bears naturally, even if the times change, elements that consistently characterise her. In Sofianopoulou’s works, the woman having stressed innocently her feminine aspect expresses purity and modesty interwoven with the childish naivety which accompanies the eccentricity of pop art. Annie Sofianopoulou’s painting is bold concerning the technical aspect of her works attested by the use of vivid and fancy colours as well as materials like glitter, beads, decorative sand etc. The final picture of the whole artistic approach leaves the viewer with optimism and joy and through its vividness allows surrendering in dreamy paths of the thought.’

‘Annie Sofianopoulou, guided by the overpowering autonomy of a material, composes another world, imperceptibly familiar but at the same time deeply unknown and difficult to interpret.‘