"My philosophy is to give others to see in the objects of everyday life the most ordinary closest to man a little joy of magic of beauty." Pavlos 2005.
Dionyssopoulos Pavlos was born in Greece in 1930. He passed the entrance exam to the School of Fine Arts in 1949. During his studies, he obtained several scholarships to study in Paris. When he decided to settle there permanently at the end of the 1950s he discovered the Paris of the New Realists.
He met Calder, Giacometti and of course César, Yves Klein and Pierre Restany.
His studio was located on rue de Vaugirard opposite Dubuffet's.
The new urban environment in which Pavlos is immersed takes him away from painting. He begins to use paper from cut posters. He works on the effects of density, colors and reliefs of the slices of posters he uses.
He then began to work with passion by following the internal logic of his material and discovered an essential element of his artistic language.
This work distinguishes him from the "poster artists" of the time (Hains Villéglé Rotella) and allows him to be noticed at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles in 1963 by Pierre Restany, the inspirer and theoretician of the New Realists group. This meeting opened new horizons for him and determined the direction of his future work.
But the work of Pavlos evolves quickly. The artist abandons abstraction and baroque to explore the possibilities of a new expressiveness.
By making his strips suggest the form of everyday objects, Pavlos moves away from New Realism and gets closer to Pop Art. However, he remains a free electron of the art world and does not commit himself to any movement.