On the occasion of Alekos Kyrarinis’s exhibition "Colour Red", writers Dimitris Angelis, Panagiotis Angelopoulos, and Kostas Vrachnos will speak on September 11, 2025, at 20:00, about their relationship with painting and the artist’s work.
Alekos Kyrarinis has always maintained that painting arises as the result of a collective endeavor. Through his engagement with a purely artistic language, he finds a field of interpretation that is communal and inclusive. Over the years, his visual language has entered into dialogue with the work of many poets and prose writers. Indeed, as a primary form of expression, his practice possesses a multiplicity of applications; it is characterized by adaptability.
Yet Kyrarinis does not paint poetry itself, but rather his personal relationship with it. He has collaborated and shared creative paths with Dimitris Angelis, Panagiotis Angelopoulos, and Kostas Vrachnos through their publishing ventures. Kyrarinis’ works have been featured in their literary publications, making this an opportune moment to jointly explore what painting draws as a gift from poetry—and vice versa. Undoubtedly, each art form grants the other a share of serenity, allowing them to coexist harmoniously.
Three writers, therefore—friends and long-standing interlocutors of the painter—come together to engage with the works in the exhibition Color Red, each in their own distinctive way.
UPDATE — 27.10.2025
The presentations from the "Reflections" event were subsequently published in the online poetry magazine Frear: https://frear.gr/?p=37545
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Alekos Kyrarinis, Cubism, 2025
