Yiannikouris’s painting is lively and lyrical. The colors are bright and transparent, even a brushstroke can indicate a form, a limit to form, a suggestion of many things. The color spots and the worked surfaces float on the canvas, as if surrounding the images in their own mystery, where a thin, delicate line has a face turned towards antiquity.
His works are in many private and public collections: in the FOND REGIONAL D’ART CONTEMPORAIN of the French Government, in the FOND DEPORTEMENTAL D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris as well as in Japan, Russia, England, America, Australia, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany and Cyprus.
He has also created various monumental works in Cyprus and France, including: frescoes in various buildings in Paris, mosaics and floors in the open-air theater of Caples, mosaics in two school buildings in Bretigny-sur-Orge, mosaic floors and walls in school buildings in Arpajon, in public buildings in Clermont-Ferrand and mainly in the Palais des Congrès and the National Institute of Statistics.
Art critic Glyn Hughes writes of Giannikouris’s work: “Giannikouris’s painting is vivid and lyrical. The colors are bright and transparent, even a brushstroke can indicate a form, a limit to form, a suggestion of many things. The color spots and worked surfaces float on the canvas, as if encircling the images in their own mystery, where a thin, delicate line has a face turned towards antiquity.
His huge canvases bounced with glory and he managed to use so many colors and textures without losing any of the intensity (…) He uses the light he sees through the shutters to travel with his canvas. Imaginary shapes appear again and again, but they are not necessary. Perhaps they are there to urge us to join in its serene grandeur. But it is the magic of chance and the physical impression that gives these works their sensual beauty. When color is forced into a small space, the effect is dazzling, and when spread across large canvases it is as if butterflies have been released."
