The Temperature in 1968 in Athens per Hour, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 120 x 240 cm.

The Temperature in 1968 in Athens per Hour

2018, acrylic on canvas, 4 works, 120 x 240 cm. each, collection of the artist

In 1968, I turned fourteen and entered that special time of our lives: adolescence. In February, my father died. It was also the year that I decided to become a painter, with all that it entailed. That, in brief, is what happened in my life then. 

Outside of me, of course, was the world. I remember certain events that took place, such as Robert Kennedy’s assassination, Paris in May, the Prague invasion.

From there on, what I truly remember and what I’ve fabricated in my memory I cannot say.  

SPACE

From the installation at the Benaki Museum, 2024

The first page from the archive that Giannis Tsiros, professor and director of the Meteorology Lab at the Athens Agricultural University, gave me.