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About the book >.>.> Since the beginning of the 90s painting has once again gained a significant presence in our visual environment. In all the pores of artistic activity paint- ing steps forth in diverse forms possessing an extensive medium that since the beginning of the 20th century continually reappears: sometimes hailed as triumphant and defining at others denounced as pass? and reactionary. Today there is no trace of a “direction” or tendency. Instead there is an extreme individuation of painterly proposals feeding from every trough. A return to the forms of surrealism that pertains to young artists a complex transformation and filtration of the flood of media but also a very subjective confrontation with geometric abstraction. The repeated monotone reference to the meta- modern as a constant rumination of outdated theoretical positions and catego- ries all of which have no purchase on our present day is no aid in understand- ing the painting of today. Instead the impressive breadth and mass of painterly offerings leads to a consideration of the dimensions of quantity that befit the “new” and the seemingly anarchic future. That is to say the curiosity of the public which painting so celebrates and which is also found over and again in many collections. Many artists of this generation often make their begin- nings with the investigation of video including works of film as well. Dimitris Tzamouranis at 23 came to Berlin’s HdK in 1990 following art school in Thes saloniki. (LL)