The opening reception will take place on Monday, November 18, 2024, at 7:30 p.m., in the Hellenic American Union Galleries (22 Massalias Street, Athens), and the exhibition will run until January 11, 2025.

Over 140 unpublished paintings that Yiannis Metzikof has created over the past three years will be on display in this solo exhibition. Through a vibrant kaleidoscope of color and energy, visitors are welcomed by portraits of real and imaginary people, dancers and performers, visions and dreams that embody the creative, painterly, and visionary essence of the multi-talented Metzikof.

As curator Iris Kritikou notes about the exhibition:

“Skillfully painted papers with light glossy materials, successive transparencies, and choreographies of daring, exquisite colors. Enigmatic faces, real or imagined, adorned with hidden trophies: beaks, hats, veils, and feathers, shells, flowers, leaves, birds, fish, and butterflies. Hands like fireworks. Strokes of ochre and violet or kernels of a captivating, unruly existence that emerge from an invisible yet companionable universe. Women and men of different ages, of otherworldly emotional states, of unknown time and origin, of suspended identity. Strange beings of dreams, theater, and night. And amidst them, from time to time, the focus of their gaze: dancers, witches, whole performers or bodiless phantoms of a heavenly Commedia or a dark Hell, as well as palimpsest documents of a returning memory and allegorical landscapes: lakes and damp forests or dark cradles and sails of ships flying from some bygone Wagnerian phantasmagoria.”

A limited edition album will be published for the exhibition by Mikri Arktos Publishing. The exhibition will also feature a series of parallel events and guided tours. Details of the event schedule will be announced soon.

Monday – Friday: 12:00 – 20:00
Saturday: 10:00 – 14:00
Sunday: Closed