ATHENS, June 15 ― An Athenian “neo-muralist” is blending Greek mythology and Byzantine iconography with graffiti and street art to depict how the coronavirus has forced people the world over to put down roots.
The 33-year-old spends time wandering the narrow back alleys of Nicosia's Old City in search of walls to use as a canvas. Standing on a wobbly platform, he gets to work with a brushstroke along the brow of Amaracus, the perfume-maker of the mythical goddess Aphrodite, whose fate he says befits life in the time of the coronavirus.
His works now adorn five facades on the Greek-Cypriot side of Nicosia, which has been divided on ethnic lines since communal unrest erupted in 1963-4. “I studied Byzantine painting since I was 13 years old in Athens, and I studied the art of the street in the streets,” says Fikos.
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