“In her monochromatic landscapes with tall buildings, churches, houses and boats as well as those in black-and-white, one can discern a strong spirit of subtraction, which helps him/her to re-evaluate the dynamic of the cone, the cube, the circle and the cylinder as fundamental forms....
“Α. Papadopoulou-Tournikioti’s works represent, if not a transcendence of the limits of the Baroque style, at least a conscious exploration or a voyage with no return to a reality struggling to turn into genuine colour, a feverish engraving and decorative robustness. The Baroque artist tries...
“…As soon as one sees her works one realizes that this is a talented individual…The rhythm of the line, impeccably worked in charcoal, the multicoloured explosions in oil, which, however, she seems to know how to control, confirm that we have a special case of...
“The subject matter of Alice Tournikioti’s works displayed in this exhibition is still life with objects and flowers. Her inner space is revealed fragmentally through her multicoloured painting compositions, reflecting its functional and unaffected character along with a widespread sense of effortless inner energy and...
“Greatly inspired in presence and texture the compositions of the painter constitute selected spaces where fruit transubstantiate into flowers, in the same way as any kind of pots-vases turn into receptacles of souls, constantly exploding. Mirrors turn into transmitters and receivers of sensual and simultaneously...
«…Thanks to the fantastic power of her instinct and her imagination, the artist has proceeded in impressive leaps. Countless flowers, with the most blinding colours, a very beautiful garden a dream state. And she, a true Alice in Wonderland discovering in her own unique way...
Alice paints as though she is talking or writing and her whole house was transformed into a multicoloured garden a long time ago, with her paintings all around like trees.. When I first saw her works, my first thought was a cliche which I had wanted...
“The artist is interested in the soul and the inner radiance of people and things. In each of her compositions their place is determined by the dialogue they develop, the vitality and warmth they dictate, the scaling of the intensity they convey, the pulse and...
Alice Tournikioti’s painting may be divided into three periods, the period up to 1988, from 1988 up to approximately 1996-7 and the period from 1997 to date. As often happens with artists, the dividing lines between these phases are not absolutely clear and very often...
«…The world that inspires her imagination (Alice Papadopoulou-Tournikioti’s) is the world of reality, she draws stimulants from daily life..She nearly always paints without a preliminary sketch, directly, and this is commendable, since when she decides to take an extract and negotiate it she has already...
