Gabriel Andronikidis is an experienced and recognized sculptor who has expressed himself through a variety of materials for years now. His aim is not to simply use the material he chooses in order to shape versions of his themes (which include symbolic or allegoric dimensions of life phenomena, recollections or reconstructions of everyday life). In essence, his main concern is to opt for those expressive ways of treating his materials which can bring out primarily the distinctive qualities, the character and “style” of each medium, once (while still being shaped) his piece of work has acquired the ability to stimulate the artist’s and, mainly, the viewer’s imagination.
This sculptor formulates a personal language with impressive sensitivity, especially through wood, and, depending on the distinctive features of the raw material, gives to his medium a “second life”.
His forms “converse” with their voids and their solid parts, their light and shades, the natural tones of wood and their smooth or less smooth surfaces.
Having assimilated what he was taught by his teachers and put it into practice, Gabriel Andronikidis stands out for his skilled gesture approach and a characteristic respect for his medium, the form and its contrasts, the structure and its fragile stability as well as the “aerodynamic” planes of his sculptures. He follows the inflections, the rhythm of the development and the forces of his material, while manipulating it, and he interconnects, mainly through his wooden sculptures, large- scale parts with small- scale ones, myth with reality, fluidity with stability, fantasy with the continuous inner transformations of his works. In addition, each piece of his work conveys the impression of a resilient and timeless entity (which regenerates itself internally), through the interaction between its organic and inorganic elements, through the “dialogue” between nature and the allegory of the unexpected “adventures” of life.