On Saturday, November 22, 2025, DL Gallery will present a group exhibition entitled “Just Abstraction II.”

What is abstraction in art and what drives artists to use it as a visual language? Five artists are invited to answer these questions in the exhibition “Just Abstraction II.” The word abstraction literally means to separate or withdraw something from something else. In the visual arts, in abstract art or non-representational art, this is achieved by removing literal depiction or any representational reference.

Abstraction using visual language—shape, color, form, line, or even hand gestures—creates a composition that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of visual reality.

The exhibition “Just Abstraction II” explores the different ways and means by which contemporary artists are led to abstraction.

The painting by Apostolos Karakatsanis (see cover) depicts the diffusion of light through the blurred boundaries of color fields, creating spaces and folds in the third dimension that emerge through a carefully studied painting process.

The works of Michalis Karaiskos, the product of extremely time-consuming and precise manual labor due to their geometric rigor, resemble digital processing.

Michalis Karaiskos

Elias Vassilos explores the relationship between space and time, creating oil paintings on large surfaces, while his repetitive style reveals a detailed relationship with time, the unit and the whole.

Elias Vassilos

In the works of Yannis Lasithiotakis, the concepts of absence and loss take center stage and are created through the addition and removal of colors and shapes. Works of the same dimensions, suspended in dialogical relationships, narrate situations of fragile balance without descriptiveness.

Yannis Lasithiotakis

In Nikos Samaras’ works, there is always a reference to space in its realistic dimension, using reflection and perspective as optical distortions to create a play between the inside and the outside, between light and shadow, and the alternation of emptiness with fullness, which reconstruct a three-dimensional space that simultaneously carries elements of the past and the future.

Nikos Samaras

Opening:  Saturday 22 November 2025 from 18:00 to 22:00

Duration:  22 November 2025 to 28 February 2026

Hours:  Thursday– Friday 12:00-19:30, Saturday 12:00-16:00

Free Admission