Christos Bokoros, nine years after his last exhibition in Athens (Impassable Forest/Viniani 2004), will once again heads up Pireos Street to the Benaki Museum.

His paintings, an exercise in self-knowledge, first reflected upon his relationship with his origins and then upon history as we experience it. More recently, he ponders over the idea of measure when it comes to people's concerns. He reflects upon what is absolutely essential in our lives. On how we might raise ourselves to our full stature, freed from all excess. 
The exhibition entitled "The bare essentials".

On boards taken from mountain bridges, he paints the weary and beleaguered together with life's basic necessities: a little food, water to keep ourselves decent, a shelter and an open door.

The narrowness and length of the works underlines the narrowness and legth of the path we talk to the opposite shore. The trotten timber recalls the multitude of unknown people who have trodden over it. The paintin on it, a carfully wrought sign of our passing, counters the life that, itself unconsumed, consumes us.