The exhibition centers on one of the oldest myths of Greek mythology - the myth of Persephone. This myth serves as a many-sided allegory of the cycles of vegetative and human life. The Goddess as Divine maiden and nymph - Daughter of Demeter. She whose absence makes the land barren. I have recently been immersed in a cycle of painting subjects from Greek mythology.
Myths also have a spontaneous quality, having been created by an outburst of human imagination.
Most of the paintings in this series are compositional assemblages in which human figures are used as architectural elements in a complex pictorial dialogue between the formal and the expressive, and in which the celebration of power, majesty, and sensuality in the human body prevails. The first is that Demetri Mitsanas brings to us the sensuous beauty of his sunny Mediterranean vision. Secondly, his paintings point to a narrative that predates Christianity by many centuries. It's a narrative that offers a resurrection mystery of a divine Maiden Daughter who shares an identity as a member of a trinity of goddesses.