On Thursday 29 th of May 2008 in the Art Space of Astrolavos Artlife (Irodotou 11, Kolonaki, tel: 210 7221200,4, fax:210 7221304, opening hours: Mon-Wed-Sat 11.00-15.00 and Tu-Th-Fr 11.00-20.30, www.astrolavos.gr) opens the new individual exhibition of Faidon Patrikalakis entitled: 'Balancer of Rocks'

The exhibition will include the artists new works-sculptures made out of paper, which the artist names 'paper sculpting' . The primitive, seemingly simple colorful painting meets characters from karagkiozis and figures inspired from our elementary education books.

These figures, having abandoned the canvas, are projected into the space reminding us of the simple manufactures from paper by artists like G. Tsarouchis, A. Akrithakis, etc.

Non-realistic colours, vivid patterns with spots and splashes create multiple surfaces and unique colour combinations in a childhood mood; combined with characteristic motives that the artist loves so dearly brighten up our disposition with the simplicity of the artists personal 'writing'. The innocence of a fragile material (carton, paper) for the artist equals with the light and the truth of any simple, everyday life.

The painter intervenes with his favourite oil-pastel colours on the paper, which are the extension of his painting and the reverse. One sees masculine figures in such positioning referring to ancient Greek sculptures and/or figures of the folk art, intertwining in the artists paper sculptures-painting compositions, with simple motives, houses, aeroplanes, birds, trees, which create a fairytale artistic world of interest and speculation. The ever-expressive figures of Faidon in this exhibition look like the dominating feeling of 'questioning' which overwhelms them.

Intensely vivid looks, starring at the viewer, gazing positions, lucidity, observation and questioning. It is as if the grown-up figures are starring the world through the innocence and through the eyes of a child. The dimensions, the colours and the designs are in harmony with children's visual perception of the world and the movement of Primitism, where nothing is realistic and the importance lies in a purely personal-subjective perception of the world or the creation of another surrealistic-artistic one.

Duration of exhibition: until Saturday 21 st of June 2008