‘I paint whatever touches me, whatever I feel about life – just like that. Golden horsemen who now live only in our dreams, languid women and lovers… I love the light that caresses faces; what poetry in a body bathed in it! I love colours, naked bodies, fabrics, the red room, a fugitive’s story, small, ordinary events. The sight amid rocks and bushes, the wave that breaks, rattling the pebbles… The view from my window is a little mountain with a monastery and cypress trees…’
The poetic gaze of Alekos Fassianos unfolds through figures, colours, and moments inspired by everyday life and memory. The public will have the opportunity to discover this distinctive visual world in the exhibition Alekos Fassianos. Under the Summer Sun, presented at the National Gallery’s Corfu Annex.
Bringing together 46 works – including oils, acrylics, and prints – the exhibition offers a representative overview of the artist’s creative journey. The featured pieces are drawn from the collections of the National Gallery, the Alekos Fassianos Museum, and private collections, spanning nearly six decades of his artistic production. Together, they highlight both the consistency and the evolution of Fassianos’s practice, alongside his singular ability to transform life’s “small, ordinary” moments into images full of life and intensity. The exhibition offers a meaningful opportunity to engage with the work of one of Greece’s most important contemporary artists and experience his unique visual language up close.
Curator: Efi Agathonikou, Head of Collections and Museology Programme, National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum
Visitor Information
Opening: Friday, June 26
Time: 20:30
Venue: National Gallery – Corfu Annex
Castellino Building, Kato Korakiana
Tel.: 26610 93333
Annex manager: Marina Papassotiriou
[email protected]
Access: The Annex is located 14 kilometres from the city of Corfu, in the Kato Korakiana area, on the National Road to Paleokastritsa, heading towards Dassia.
Urban Bus: No. 7
Departure point: Saroko Square – Stop: Katomeri
Duration: June 26, 2026 – January 11, 2027
