Yiannis Adamakos. Art Is a Single Thing

The art critic and curator Christoforos Marinos, wrote for the painter: "What is the essential in an art like that of Adamakos? The quest for the void, the artist's persistent effort to depict the void, forms part of the uncertainty we were talking about. The void here is the essential... There were mornings when he looked up, through the back window of his studio, shared at the gray doorway of the building across the street and imagined the painting ancestors suspended in the dawn. "Thank you, thank you" would chant. He was grateful to them all -all the painters who had toiled to vanquish Fear and despair, to illustrate the void."