Open Daily 4:00 pm –8:00 pm
Alexandros Loukisas was inspired by the work of Vitsentzos Kornaros Erotokritos to create a series of free imaginative and symbolic compositions. In these works, the iconographic references are combined with symbols frequent in the verses of Erotokritos, such as the sun, the moon, a ship, a sword, a lute, as well as various animals and birds, creating his characteristic surrealistic, symbolic, and dreamlike images, some of which are structured with an evident geometry and others with a hidden one.
Alexandros Loukisas was born in Athens. He studied Painting, Printing and Photography at the West Surrey College of Art & Design in England, where he graduated with honours and a first prize. When he returned to Greece he completed his music studies, obtaining a Piano Diploma at the Athens Conservatoire. From 1986 to 2021 he taught art in Secondary Education, he collaborated with the 92ART art space teaching drawing, painting and comparative art history (visual arts-music), and he also taught piano at the Athens Conservatoire. He is Secretary of the International Cultural Federation 21st Century (ICF), and he served as President of the Institute of Music for Children for several years. He is also a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, of the permanent Artistic Committee of the Panhellenic Piano Competition for Young Pianistis in Andros, and of the Artistic and Jury Committee of the International Cartoon Competition which is organised by the Municipality of Dafni-Ymittos, Athens. As a member of ICF he contributes to workshops, music events and other activities. Since 1982 he has had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in group art shows, in London, Athens, Lamia, as well as Crete. In 2018 he took part in a group exhibition in Sitia, celebrating the Vitsentzos Kornaros Year. This is his sixth solo exhibition in Sitia (1989, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2025).
