Education
In 1985 Krokatsis attended Liverpool Polytechnic, where he received his Bachelor Fine Art, graduating in 1988. In the same year he went on to attend the, completing his Master of Arts in Painting in 1990.
In 1985 Krokatsis attended Liverpool Polytechnic, where he received his Bachelor Fine Art, graduating in 1988. In the same year he went on to attend the, completing his Master of Arts in Painting in 1990.
Krokatsis works with a wide range of materials, from smoke, found wood, broken glass, and antique mirrors, creating objects that oscillate between the "destitute and the divine". He has had numerous solo exhibitions, his work has been shown in Guggenheim Collection Venice, City Gallery Prague, De Louisiana Warr Pavilion, The New Art Gallery Walsall, among others Education Work Krokatsis works with a wide range of materials, often found or otherwise redundant materials such as broken mirrors, used votive candles, reclaimed wood, and antique mirrors.
"I used the remnants of Votive candles.
Someone comes to church and makes a prayer. There are often two inches left after the candle is burnt though.
Those bits are thrown away and I collect them. You take your fresh candle and it’s only for your prayer.
lieutenant’s an object invested with belief and hope.
lieutenant’s the medium for intense spiritual outpouring but the remaining bits are just chucked." The use of votive candles can be seen in works such as See Better Daze, 2008, a pair of huge stag antlers mounted on a bronzed mirror, moulded from the stubs of 4,321 votive candles, collected over the course of a year. Krokatsis’ smoke drawings reflect these concerns: made from the smoke from a burning rag held over a cutout template, the artist controls and directs the intensity of the fumes, creating different layers, surfaces and contrasts, but the process is also exposed to the contingency of chance and accident. The resultant images have a haunting, residual quality, partly due to their often ambiguous subject matter, as if the record of some event, image or memory revealed unknowingly over time.
‘this is not art to make sense of the world – it is an act of faith, it’s art as a spell’.
Public Works Personal life Krokatsis, whose work often explores religious themes, has a mixed religious background. Krokatsis is represented by David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil, and Vigo Gallery, London.