The exhibition catalogue Alekos Kyrainis. The Blossom Field is being held on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name organized by the National Library of Greece, from 18 March to 20 June 2025.

Appreciating the work of Kyraninis, its curator and Chairman of the Board of the National Library of Greece, Stavros Zoumboulakis, notes:

“The painting world of Kyrarinis has a conquered, with time and effort, simplicity and childishness. Here there is a danger of misinterpreting his painting, that is, to classify him among the naif painters. That would be a very big mistake. Quite the opposite is true: Kyrainis is a scholarly painter. In the hard struggle to conquer his personal style he has chosen his interlocutors: Klee, Miroux, Dubuffet (more, I think, than the two previous ones), but also Moralis (let the viewer bring to mind the drawings we see on the facade of the Hilton). But it is obvious that the great source from which he draws is Greek folk art, from which his motifs derive, from folk embroidery, woodcarvings, stone reliefs. But all of these are worked with his own techniques.

Kyrarinis’ art is deceptively easy, the hurried viewer may think it is a pleasant decorative game. His works need to be looked at and looked at again, up close, very close, to notice the details, and from a distance to capture their architecture. And beyond that, you need other conditions to understand their spiritual depth and to be moved by them. The contemplative Kirarinis is a daring painter, with uncontained creative passion and spiritual intensity.”