The multiplicity of expressive dialects in the work of Philip Tsiaras and his skillful maneuvers among an impressive variety of conceptual and aesthetical levels are revealed through the exhibition housed in Donopoulos International Fine Arts gallery at the cultural compound of Mylos from October 10 until November 22 in parallel with the artist’s retrospective exhibition in the Museum of Photography. Born in the United States and a permanent resident of New York, Tsiaras has earned international recognition as result of a non draining energy that becomes apparent in the imaginative reclaiming of materials and the pluralism of topics, though without weakening the conciseness and sharpness of its core. His mark in the broader field of visual arts is imprinted by more than a hundred solo exhibitions worldwide. Moreover, he develops an integrated presence in literature as a poet. The photographs presented in the gallery space, as well as a series of glass sculptures, which have just arrived from Venice Biennale, designate some of the symbols and the forms that establish an iconography seemingly originating from modern lifestyle, nonetheless deeply personal and emotional in its essence. Tsiaras approaches these archetypes with fetishistic reverence, each time aims at circumcising their traditional value in order for reversal and the conceptually paradox to emerge. For the viewer, a familiar view such as the one of the Parthenon is converted to a startling experience, the transparency of cubes within which weapons are caged encourages refreshing visual provocations. In Tsiaras’ art, constant shifts and arguments attest a ritual of inner-search; they construct a mixing of cultural elements dominated by allusions regarding Greek origins and Mediterranean vitality. His works, spaces intensively loaded with memories, are transformed into complex entities for which compression of symbolisms, images, literal and metaphorical meanings constitutes the ultimate issue.