Just published. Painting by Photini Stephanidi. Introduction by Christos Boulotis. 297 numbered copies.
"Unless you look into it fixing your eyes wide open, this picture will not do you the favour of spelling out its message, of silently articulating what it has to say through the transparent light that enfolds it just as the breeze of a lyrical poem enfolds a seven-stringed lyre. A festive table laid out timelessly, and thus eternal and untouched, in the
archetypal realm where there is no room for any trace of affectation.
A banquet that is silent –resoundingly silent– where everything has already happened and is yet still happening, where the table spread with its white cloth stretches out into infinity, with neither beginning nor end, running through times and places from furthest East to
West. Yet it bears a stamp that is very clearly Greek; Greek like the vibrant brush which told the story step by step until it reached its open-ended conclusion, creating the impression that it is at the same time both a fragment and a completed work. (...)
"Unless you look into it fixing your eyes wide open, this picture will not do you the favour of spelling out its message, of silently articulating what it has to say through the transparent light that enfolds it just as the breeze of a lyrical poem enfolds a seven-stringed lyre. A festive table laid out timelessly, and thus eternal and untouched, in the
archetypal realm where there is no room for any trace of affectation.
A banquet that is silent –resoundingly silent– where everything has already happened and is yet still happening, where the table spread with its white cloth stretches out into infinity, with neither beginning nor end, running through times and places from furthest East to
West. Yet it bears a stamp that is very clearly Greek; Greek like the vibrant brush which told the story step by step until it reached its open-ended conclusion, creating the impression that it is at the same time both a fragment and a completed work. (...)