The exhibition presents the artistic journey that the artist has charted since the early 1980s, placing him among the most significant representatives of contemporary Greek painting.
Fokas’s painting oscillates between speech (communication) and silence, tension and calm, the dreamlike and the real, ultimately between representation—the recognizable—and abstraction, as his works have never been purely representational nor entirely abstract. At its core, this painting focuses on humanity and the issues that concern it. Works such as Emerald Blue (2016) comment on ecological and migration issues. Trophies (2015), where the artist juxtaposes the head of John the Baptist with the severed head of a wild boar, refers to the beheadings by ISIS.
Opening: Thursday, November 7, 19:00