On Monday the 16th of May 2005, at 8.00 in the evening, at Greek Company of Business Administration (Leof.Ionias & Iakovaton 61, Patisia tel: 210 2112000), the opening of an exhibition of painting and sculpture by Faidon Patrikalakis, with the title "Glorious and ritual", will take place. The exhibition is organized by "ASTROLAVOS" art galleries and it belongs to the program "Art in workplaces". Works from different periods of the artist are included in the exhibition. Oils, acrylics, water - colors, oil pastels, works made by mixed technique and sculptures too, that give spherically a complete view of the different phases in his work. Anthropocentric works, dead natures and landscapes present especial interest even for those who are not familiar with his work.
The bright colors and the exuberant naive human figures that lead in his work constitute the two basic arbors of his painting.

The composition in his anthropocentric works is usually simple. Moral but also everyday scenes are being presented, where either figures lead in natural surroundings, or couples and threesomes, families, friends etc. The figures combined with some staff age elements in their surrounding, as for example, the traditional round coffee tables, the flower-pots with the basils and the bindweeds, the doves, the little bees, the cats with human characteristics and the white scarves that wave in the wind? give a very individual Greek stigma in the works of the artist. Towards this direction conduce the colors he uses, which are in majority very intense, almost glare: he uses all the tones of blue, from the bright blue to the deep blue, the intense red, the green, the white and also some strokes of gold. The bright palette of the artist exposes a sense of joy for life, even in the works that figures give off skepticism, sorrow or even tragedy. Silent forms, optimistic figures but also forms who cry out, express the human psychological behaviors in different expressions of life. The influences both classical music and jazz through emotional feeling with scenes of happiness and sorrow and through rythmology and musicology that informs the drawing of the artist, are diffused even in his landscapes or dead natures. Also his long service in stage - designing is obvious in the theatricality which the development of his compositions often contains. These are built gradually with equitant one – dimensional levels, which finally attribute the sense of depth, space or landscape. The color surfaces in Patriklakaki's drawing are flat, without largeness. The classical perspective doesn't exist either in the formation of body and the positions of figures, or in performance of object and their placement in space. The abolition of classic – geometric perspective and the simplifying of the clumps or the characteristics of figures, where the interest of the artist focus only in the basics performing them with simplicity, lead in the creation of a very personal, naive and recognizable drawing idiom.
The full - bodied clumps of human figures in his images constitute a drawing translation of the equally full - bodied sculptures, which have in their base the Greek sculpture's stamp and more specific the Cycladic figurines. But the art of Faidon Patrikalakis is not exclusively Greek, as it includes influences of different cultures, ancient and modern, and different movements of art, which the artist had studied extensively in his worldwide tours. Finally it's a case of art - essence of the paramount mystery that calls life.

Duration of exhibition: till 14th of June.