Participation in the exhibition “Yannis Gaitis. The Essence of Anonymity”

The Alpha Bank Art Collection is participating in the retrospective exhibition with 2 works of art by the artist:

• In the courtyard of miracles, 1966, oil on canvas, 130 x 97 cm
• Dog, 1957, oil on canvas, 73 x 100 cm

Representative and valuable pieces

The retrospective exhibition is organised by the B & M Theocharakis Foundation to mark the 100-year anniversary since the Yannis Gaitis’ birth.

With the assistance of his daughter, Loretta Gaiti, the exhibition presents representative and valuable works that mark Gaitis’ evolution as an artist, from 1944 up to his later creative days.

The exhibition includes:

• Self-portraits of the artist.
• Portraits of his family.
• Portraits of his wife, sculptor Gabriella Simossi, with whom he worked in Paris.

A few words about the exhibition's curator

The exhibition is curated by Takis Mavrotas.

In the exhibition catalogue, the curator wrote about the artist: “The figures populating Gaitis’ everyday world – hundreds of Little People, whom we sometimes see on the surface of a can and at others coming out of it, reflect his personal style. His little people travel back to the distant past, to our ancient roots, as if seeking to identify their ontological presence with History or to feel its necessity, creating, with their bodies, the artist’s own Acropolis. From his very first steps, his instinct led him consistently to his personal ideal, as one thought was succeeded by the next one in a coherent whole, to complete his vision.”