"It is not enough to see, you also need to look"

A note from the Collector

The pandemic is raging, and overturning everything we took for granted so far.

Works of art, paintings and sculptures need their viewers.

Painters need to paint, but they also need a sense that there is interest in their work, in the here and now.

Closely observing a painting on a digital platform is an alternative reality.

We are aware, however, that digital content will never replace the live, in-person experience of standing before a work of art, seeing it exposed, and then looking at it.

Each country needs - and therefore has - its own art, because it has its own history, its own traditions, its own customs, its own geography and its own climate.

Audiences could see that as they look at a work of art.

The painters of the collection are masters of remarkable talent, whose work, however, has rarely been exhibited in European museums.

The paintings of the collection are - in my view - an insightful portrayal of several aspects of the cultural condition of our era, which is, naturally, engaged in dialogue with history.

The collection is my gaze.

A selection of artworks from the collection that function autonomously and tell us, each in its own way, that painting remains a space of dreams and transcendence.

The works of the collection move along the indefinite boundary between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the real and the imagined, melancholy and euphoria.

Everything I say - when given the opportunity or when asked - about the collection could well be "excerpts" of a stand up comedy on my own life.


Sotiris Felios