In the case of Andronikidis, art flows through his veins. Painting, icon painting and sculpture evoke his passion. He takes courses of art painting by the painter and icon painter Kostas Tsilsavidis. Andronikidis’ painting includes landscapes, portraits, icon paintings and decorations. At times he applies an idiomorphous technique resembling the mosaic. From 1986 he turns to sculpture. Indeed, he uses iron putty, a material employed by very few, and processes it with improvised tools. Childhood memories of his craftsman grandfather are revived and he engages with the sculpture of wood. Andronikidis chooses olive wood, hard and intractable, as raw material for these sculptures. Furthermore, his relation to machines and their components in the Engineering Department of the Municipality of Thessaloniki turns his attention to useless remnants of materials (cogs, shock absorbers, asphalt materials) used in his constructions, which he turns into art. He, thus, becomes one of the first “trash artists” in Thessaloniki, employing a personal successful assemblage of useless, at first sight, objects.
His painting is characterized by the clarity of sight and the emphasis on bold colours. His sculpture of wood and metal moves towards expressionism and constructivism, with clear traces of manierism in the search of the form: the movement, the rotation and the finish of the wood reveal the need of our artist to make the most of his material’s potential, while the ingenuity, inventiveness and creativeness in combining metal elements is astonishing. Andronikidis is therefore deservedly considered one of the few Greek sculptors who devoted themselves to the sculpture of wood and faithfully served it, such as Kiriakos Kampadakis (born in 1938), Nikos Logothetis (born in 1933) et al.
Without abandoning figurativeness, he is attracted by the abstract presentation of his figures. And the products of his artistic creativity –his paintings, his constructions and his syntheses- justify his effort, allowing us to anticipate more in the future.