Mati Gallery

We ran into an art gallery in Fira, Santorini. There are a few art galleries there, but this Mati Gallery is most interesting.

This Galllery is owned by Yorgos Kypris, a Greek artist and a Canadian art dealer. The gallery itself is only about 600 square feet big, but your attention will be caught immediately to one of its walls, where over a hundred of silhousette of fishes carved out of thin aluminum sheets were posed like a flock of fish swimming down from the upper right corner.

Among the other works of Kypris's, the Gallery features some impressive bronze casts: A 3 feet long shark head sticks out of the wall into the street, and a full-size man sits on the roof, looking out into the Aegean Sea. He might have the best seat for the famous sunset of romance, but he has also taken the best spot to look at the joy and misery of the visitors of the island.

Mati Gallery, Fira, Santorini, May 9, 2006