Yiannis Adamakis
Yannis Adamakis was born in 1959 in Piraeus.
He has presented his work in 34 solo and many group exhibitions in Greece, Belgium, France, Germany, Cyprus, Poland, Russia and Turkey, among which the international Artfairs “Art Athina” (Athens, 1994, 1998), “Art Jonction” (Nice, France, 1997), “Lineart” (Ghent, Belgium, 2000), “ArtParis” (Paris, France, 2004) and “ArtThessaloniki” (Thessaloniki, 2018, 2021).
He has also participated in three international art meetings: Cherepovets (Russia, 1998), Bielefeld (Germany, 2000) and Kusadasi (Turkey, 2016).
Many events on his work, as well as other topics related to Art, have taken place with his participation, at the “Theocharakis Foundation” (Athens, 2017), at the Technical University of Crete (TEDx – “Light Leakage”, Chania, 2017), at “Iano” (Athens, 2016, 2018), at “PolisArt café” (Athens, 2018), at “Katsigra Museum” (Municipal Gallery of Larissa, 2018), at “Artville” (Athens, 2018), at Panteion University and elsewhere.
His works have been published in magazines, newspapers and art catalogues.
He lives and works in Athens.
I travel, I expect, I wander.
The destination, a promise.
I arrive in the city.
Streets, smells, wishes.
Presence of people. Traces recent, past, hidden, forgotten.
Traces humble, majestic, imposing, glittering, shiny, trivial, ineffective.
I get lost, choose contradictory routes, hide in the crowd, stop at the red light. I claim my privacy. I feel invisible, light. I wash away my ideas.
I am dazzled by the lights of the stage. I change roles.
I get excited at the possibility of a chance meeting.
Then I get tired.
I regress to the loneliness of my daily life. I return to plans that didn’t work out, to illusory promises, to events, plans, aspirations. I wander again in familiar spaces, I don’t stumble over furniture, I record experiences, I record images, I relive my thoughts.
Yiannis Adamakis
