"Paintings that Keep their Secrets Well Hidden"

Woman with a Carpet On the Balcony
2003

Kostas Papanikolaou conveys in his paintings urban life, focusing primarily on everyday scenes at the streets, inside a home or a coffee house. His artworks, selectively realistic, are highly narrative, with a disarming simplicity and a bold use of colours.

The Archer
1990

Tassos Mantzavinos articulates in painting his emotional world, communicating it to the viewer, without being afraid to use several autobiographical details.

His artworks are distinctively inspired from folk tradition, often using iconographic features and references to expresses man’s inner need to seek help from a higher power. 

The artist’s interest focuses on the formal dramatisation of his subjects, with distinctive expressionist strokes and a bold use of colours.

Jealousy
2020

Maria Giannakaki composes a hymn to love, revealing the true nature of lovemaking without any sophistication and melodrama. The body parts are woven like branches made of flesh in a way that only the act of lovemaking can canonize, while the facial expressions bloom in pleasure. 

St Mnep I
2018

Constantinos Papamichalopoulos develops morphoplastic idioms influenced by Byzantine tradition and contemporary Japanese pop culture, using painting, engraving, sketching and traditional techniques.

Models in the Studio
2010-2013

Alecos Levidis uses images from his memory, his subconscious or his experiences as the starting point, incorporating multiple scenes, so that the narrative in his paintings takes place on several levels.

In the foreground, the human figures, which depict his children, are characterised by the harmony of a realistic rendition.

The paintings refer directly to a western ecclesiastical triptych. The top part is laid out in three sections, while the lower half takes the form of a Renaissance predella, with five smaller scenes in procession.