Publication Title: EP Journal 6 (2022)
Editor: Danai Giannoglou
Publisher: Enterprise Projects
Language: English / Greek
Graphic Design: Bend
Date: 2022
Location: Athens
This text was written in response to an invitation from Enterprise Project and its publishing initiative, EP Journal, to contribute an original research-based piece for their online publication.
It explores key questions in art theory and history through the concept of Logos—the organizing idea at the core of my doctoral dissertation. Defined here as language, reason, discourse, mathematical structure, and myth, Logos is examined in relation to the work of art through the practices of four Greek visual artists: Constantin Xenakis, Nausika Pastra, Pantelis Xagoraris, and Bia Davou.
I argue that these artists, working primarily from the late 1960s through the 1980s, extended Greek conceptual art beyond pure abstraction by approaching art as a system of communication shaped by language, logic, codes, seriality, and symbolic structures. Xenakis built visual sign systems and brought them into public space. Pastra worked through geometric and deductive methods. Xagoraris composed with mathematics and early computer processes. Davou began with binary systems and moved, gradually, toward myth and weaving.
Together, their practices reveal how Greek artists engaged Logos not only as text or speech, but also as a method for structuring perception, meaning, and experience. The essay concludes that their work valued process over object, activated the viewer as a participant, and reintroduced myth as a way of understanding reality, thus giving Greek conceptual practice a distinct intellectual and poetic dimension.
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