ABOUT DIMITRIS KIRIAKOS

As you look at the paintings of Dimitris Kyriakos, you are invited to move gradually into deeper, uncharted waters. Through abstraction and through colors that vibrate across the canvas, you encounter images that shift between memory, emotion, and association. At times they evoke blooming Japanese landscapes; at others, they feel like palimpsests of remembrance, layered traces of inner life. Through silence, gesture, and atmosphere, you are drawn toward a more intimate encounter with the hidden depths of human existence.

This journey is inseparable from the artist’s parallel path in psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and painting. For Dimitris Kyriakos, art and inner inquiry are not separate practices, but extensions of one another. In the works presented under the title Saying without Saying, you enter a visual language shaped by psychological intensity, abstraction, and expressive force. Although his work has been deeply influenced by Gerhard Richter, his artistic voice emerges through a distinct vocabulary of color and personal symbolism.

You will often notice the bold presence of pink in his paintings, a color rarely central in abstract expressionism or abstraction more broadly. Here, it becomes both emotional and symbolic: a point of departure, a threshold, a tension between innocence and gravity. As the artist himself has said, every good painting begins with pink and ends with black. Whether this speaks to life and death, light and darkness, or care and tragedy, remains open to interpretation. What stays with you is the sense that each work invites you not only to look, but to feel, reflect, and enter a silent dialogue with yourself.

Paris, October 7, 2023
Efi Michalarou
Art Critic & Exhibition Curator