An explosive hilarity is plunging out from Alexis Akrithakis’ images, a contagious one, inviting us to rejoice as well, to play in the bustling field, to enter into the colorful carousel, whose lights shimmer on passions.

A microcosm in running motion, in perpetual action, an everyday baroque fiesta is deployed in front of us. Here, whatever our eyes are catching is transformed to small and archetypal objects and lets emerge the image of a direct experience of the World, as the one we have in a dream.

Akrithakis’ visual world is not an escape from this complex experience, it just tries to give a human form to its structure by analyzing it to its components: flowers and people, bicycles, wheels and flags, a heart and the Sun is the scenery of a reality transformed to a fairytale world that is becoming perceptible again in the sphere of a game. We could tell that Akrithakis’ images correspond pictorially to Herbert Marcuse’s vision of happiness.

We are facing here the very personal mythology of a dreamer who, as he wakes up from the noise of his own fireworks, is wondering about the World’s texture and mirrors his wonder on an almost automatic painterly act.

CHRISTOS JOAKIMIDES