The space of contemporary art in Greece from the 60s onwards is "liberated" from the trends of realism, but also from the early aspects of modernism, offering ground to abstraction and its various versions. The pressure of materials in painting, the rise of subjectivism, as well as the obsession with its fundamental components brought about a creative renewal based on color, fluctuating shapes, pure geometric forms, scarce raw materials (creative memory of the post-Montrian era) and generally in the optimistic atmosphere, after the depressing period of the second world war.

Opi Zouni is the artist who very fruitfully embodied the post-war concerns of European artists, who were looking for an experiential and pure art with an emphasis on the autonomy of the painting, being herself in an abstract, constructivist and geometric stage, serving the principles and values of lyrical abstraction in the name of a poetic transformation of reality.

The architectural sense is pervasive in her work as an element that creates spaces, makes structures, defines objects and shapes. On the other hand, the color, clean, rich in tones and stereometric, conveys the lyrical atmosphere, peace and tranquility to the gaze that faces the absolute perfection, but also the infinite sensitivity towards human. It is order, balance and the perfect organization of space with clear and harmonious forms as a result of the cooperation of art and mathematics. It is the feeling of "cosmic energy" that arises, seeing these works, as Pierre Restani so aptly put it.

Opis Zouni's experimentation with the relations of colors, the interaction between them, as well as the sculptural highlighting of shapes in her constructions was continuous and uninterrupted, with an artistic work that reflects her basic philosophical and spiritual principles of contemporary art. The artist uses the color structures, the extensions of colors in all directions (and beyond three-dimensional space) on the basis of a mathematical distribution of colors (and forms) in space, to create a lyrical image-model of the so-called visual art. And as she has commented on her "image": "The artist is an image creator and our age is par excellence the "age of the image". She may have gotten rid of the depiction but not the image. What she creates is her own image, the depiction of her imagination, her thinking and her life, which is related to the present and possibly to tomorrow. New systems, visual games are now starting to build or tear down images."

Dr. Markella Tsichla
Art Historian-Museologist