The Caravan of Innocence An art exhibition by Yiorgos Theodorou at the Consulate General of Greece in New York

The Consulate General of Greece in New York had the honor to host visual artist Yiorgos Theodorou’s first personal exhibition in the city of New York, on April 16th. 

Striking a chord with the New York City audience, Theodorou takes an interesting approach to various human feelings experienced by people who were forced to roam across foreign lands. The exhibition is titled “The Caravan of Innocence” and, as the words imply, it touches upon the concept of human mobility. Theodorou uses faces as a medium to convey strong emotions.

Introducing the artist, Consul General of Greece in New York Konstantinos Koutras invited the exhibition’s guests to take a close look at the paintings and attempt to translate the look in their eyes. The portraits belong to real people whom the painter met through photographs. Similarly, speaking about the exhibition, Thessaloniki University Professor of History of Art, Miltos Papanikolaou says that Theodorou uses a visual truthfulness to make the viewer participate in the “action” of the figures depicted and their mental state, thus reaffirming the definition of “empathy”.

The Caravan of Innocence is a selection of works of the last four years, during which it established itself as an idea. But the subject started silently and without any special awareness since the beginning of the ‘dark years’ of the Greek crisis (2010), and some of my older works belong to this unity as well,” said the artist.

Yiorgos Theodorou was born in Athens in 1967 and has graduated from both the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Athens Technical University (School of Graphic Arts & Artistic Studies). His career started in visual communication but it gradually focused on painting and education. He teaches Graphic Arts at the AKTO Art & Design College, as well as at the University of Peloponnese. He has had two individual exhibitions of paintings in Athens and has participated in numerous group exhibitions.

The exhibition runs through April 30th.

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