[...] The overall work Fovea thematizes the very visibility of objects, colors, shapes, and figures; given its thematic affirmations, it refers directly to: on the one hand, the physiology of vision, on the other, a tradition of modern painting that highlights the painterly trace itself as its reference system. I.M. believes that the artistic gesture is an extension and continuation of the brain function and, as such, has no other goal than to construct, by selecting from the chaotic stimuli of the world "out there" forms and colors, lines and surfaces, separate entities and objects easily taken in at a glance.

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[...] I.M. implicitly proposes that we respect an aesthetic imperative formulated by Nietzsche: to see science from the perspective of art, and art from the perspective of life. As a theory of living beings, physiology gives life to art, strengthen it and establish it as a bio-logical art. On the other hand, the look of art comes to complement and sharpen our natural perception. It does appear that science, art and life are a perpetual feedback loop that is difficult for one to unravel.

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By Dionysis Kavvathas | 2013