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Babis Pilarinos
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Greek Artist inspired by the naive style and Byzantine icons
“Most of my paintings are experiential and celebrate life. A party, a trip, a dance by the sea, a walk in the forest, wine, companionship...Every single moment is a gift, given to you.”
Babis Pilarinos was born in 1966 in Zakynthos, a Greek island of Ionian Sea between Greece and Italy. He first worked as a photographer in Athens, by printing black and white photos. Afterwards, he was taught the Byzantine painting and nowadays also paints orthodox churches with the Byzantine techniques. His personal work mixes elements from the aesthetics of the iconic painting and a personal visual language, inspired by “naïve” painting and and childhood tales, inspired from his own memories.
He exhibited in Zakynthos (2001,2005), in Athens (2008) and participated in several collective exhibitions in Athens, Thessalonica, Iraklio, Moscow and Strasbourg.
According to Babis Pilarinos, despite the violence of the real world, Paradise is not lost because real paradise is an internal state, a personal way to understand the life, a way to be able to turn the problems into possibilities, to get to know and accept others, and reach a kind of communion. Complaining is an excuse for our inability to discover this hidden paradise.
(Marie Deparis, Art critic, France 2009)
