Today I was invited to Socrates Socratous studio. It was 17:00, the taxi drove me there with gray rainy sky of Athens following us like a curse..Socrates is a Cypriot artist who lives and works in Athens for the past almost 10 years.On his flat’s wall there is a big collage of the pictures he took from Athens 2004 Olympic games. It was a project he was involved to the max..The pictures look really alive.. 
His art is very (very) sensitive. I first saw his work in 2001, at Tirane BIENALE Festival where he presented "THE GARDEN" …As you know there is a big focus on Turkish and Cypriots artists at the moment ,so a while ago , Socrates visited his birth country to participate in an exhibition organized especially for the curators of MANIFESTA. The main reason was for them to see "whats going" on in ART-terms on an Island like Cyprus which was silent for so much time.
He doesn’t know if he is chosen to be in the original MANIFESTA festival due to happen in 2006 in Nicosia but lets hope he will be.
The tittle was "GLOBAL DEER". This year there is also a group exhibition that Socrates is participating . Tittled "Illegal Installation" his work is based on a burnt wooden floor among a pair of flying loving pigeons which are hanging from the ceiling.
I am not an art critic though and I am scared about what my comments look like.
The picture above and below is from what Socrates presented to the Manifesta Curators.
Socrates is very gentle guy, he is a big fan of Diane Pernet and I discovered it by coincidence. We hadn’t spoken to each other for a long time as I was living in Paris in 2004/05 and he called me after he had seen Diane’s weblog. I was supposed to meet another artist today right after my Socrates appointment but unfortunetely she wasn’t at her studio. I am crossing my hands also for the Sophia Coppola and Father snapshot all the way from Thessalloniki Festival. You will be the first to know.
Here is Socrates being shy, enjoying his tea.
KISS X
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