Featured Texts

A curated selection of texts exploring artists, themes, and significant moments in art.
Each reflection approaches creation as a space of memory, symbolism, and human experience.

Giorgos Pol. Ioannidis: The Evolution of an Inner Visual Language

A curatorial reflection by Daniela Cinalli Rossi on the symbolic, sensory and structural journey of Ioannidis’ painting.

Horse in ancient Greece

The horse’s (“hippos”) long affiliation with gods and heroes in Greek mythology no doubt also fostered a special respect and admiration for this remarkable creature in the minds of “ordinary” Greeks.

Ivan Aivazovsky – A single epic poem of the sea

His art is the affirmation of man and humanity and the negation of despotism and violence. Aivazovsky was an artist who thirsted for glorified freedom.

Γεώργιος Ιακωβίδης — Ο ζωγράφος της παιδικής ηλικίας

Ο Έλληνας με το ασίγαστο πνεύμα που ξεκίνησε από την ταπεινή Λέσβο, το ορεινό χωριό του τα Χύδηρα, για να κατακτήσει το Μόναχο κι όλη την Ευρώπη του προπερασμένου αιώνα.

A Greek-language text on the painter of childhood and tender everyday life.

Giannoulis Halepas – The Greek … Vincent Van Gogh

ΓΙΑΝΝΟΥΛΗΣ ΧΑΛΕΠΑΣ
– το τίμημα της μεγαλοφυΐας –
Μορφή αινιγματική, δυσνόητη, περιφρονημένη και λατρεμένη, περιγραμμένη και ερμηνευμένη με τρόπους ακραίους και αυθαίρετους πολλές φορές, μας φέρνει αντιμέτωπους με ουσιαστικά προβλήματα της ιστορίας και της κοινωνίας του 20ού αιώνα στην Ελλάδα.

A Greek-language text on Sculpture, fragility, and the tension between suffering and artistic creation.

Degas and his Dancers

When thinking of the art of Edgar Degas, you would automatically associate him with the ballet & dancers, soft portraits drawn in pastel, women at their toilette, images of laundry workers, cabaret singers and racecourse scenes.

Giorgio Pol. Ioannidis — Painting as an Act of Resistance and Redemption

A reflection on painting as an existential act and a form of inner resistance.

Διαθέσιμο και στα ελληνικά: Γιώργος Πολ. Ιωαννίδης — Ζωγραφική, πράξη αντίστασης και λύτρωσης

Lilacs in Painting

Between French Impressionism and Russian Sensibility
April begins, and with it, the quiet emergence of lilacs.
A flower familiar, almost ordinary. And yet, in painting, it unfolds in unexpectedly rich ways.

Το Καρναβάλι στη ζωγραφική

Από τις πιο σημαντικές λαϊκές εκδηλώσεις, το καρναβάλι δεν άφησε αδιάφορους τους δημιουργούς, όποια κι αν ήταν η τέχνη που υπηρετούσαν.

A Greek-language text on carnival imagery and artistic expression.

The Crucifixion – In the work of Giorgos Pol. Ioannidis

The Crucifixion as a recurring condition of human existence across time. From 1980 to the present, the Crucifixion is not approached as a fixed religious subject. It returns as a state that endures. Not as the memory of an event, but as a process unfolding in time. A persistent return.

Διαθέσιμο και στα ελληνικά: Η Σταύρωση – Στο έργο του Γιώργου Πολ. Ιωαννίδη