Denis Donikian, Writer and Visual artist
Notes et contre-notes sur Milo Dias, pétrisseur de têtes…
Grimacing humanity! Milo Dias took the side of a realistic expressionism against the advanced modes of abstraction. The more those ones take us away from the human figure, the more the sculptor insists on bringing to light the human, nothing but the human. A classic primitive.
Only he is interested in the way of sculpting which has been the longest practiced over the centuries. With the hand and with the clay. His art owes nothing to modern materials, his artistic act is at the crossroads of man and the earthly flesh that surrounds him everywhere. The rest is a matter of observation…
See the article on Denis Donikian’s website