Kyriakos Mortarakos exhibits paintings and drawings of various dimensions, referencing rooms and spaces without openings, with allusions to his previous body of work. The artist focuses on the interaction between the “inside” and the “outside”, offering highlights of different responses to everyday stimuli, along with his own visual and textual writing. Our times are currently dominated by sorrow, moaning, misery, sadness, people appear gloomy and melancholic as if they are mourning because of the crisis. The artist himself says, “I remember in earlier times of sadness, people used to cover the paintings and mirrors of their home with a black cloth.”

Untitled,
pastel and oil
mounted on canvas,
25 x 34 cm

Interior,
oil on canvas,
100 x 120 cm, 2012

Untitled,
oil on canvas,
25 x 34 cm, 2014

Untitled,
oil and pencil
on canvas,
25 x 34 cm, 2014

Untitled,
pastel on paper
mounted on canvas,
25 x 34 cm, 2013

Interior,
oil on canvas,
35 x 50 cm, 2013

Untitled,
oil on paper
mounted on canvas,
25 x 34 cm, 2012

Untitled,
oil on canvas,
25 x 34 cm, 2013

Untitled,
pen on paper
mounted on canvas,
25 x 34 cm, 2012

Untitled,
oil on canvas,
25 x 34 cm, 2013

Untitled,
pastel on paper
mounted on canvas,
25 x 34 cm, 2012

Untitled,
oil on canvas,
25 x 34 cm, 2013

Untitled,
pastel on paper
mounted on canvas,
25 x 34 cm, 2012

Interior,
oil on canvas,
100 x 120 cm, 2013

Interior,
oil on canvas,
120 x 100 cm, 2012

Interior,
oil on canvas,
50 x 70 cm, 2010

Untitled,
oil on canvas,
170 x 200 cm, 2012