[...] With a slogan of approximately brevity, but also with caution, I am trying to outline the outline of a general rule, considering that its validity is confirmed, as an exception, by the case of Vasilis Theoharakis. And this is because I believe that he represents a not at all common, completely unusual, I would say, coincidence of a successful entrepreneur who happens to be an established artist, or rather, more correctly, an artist who happens to be simultaneously an entrepreneur. We are dealing with a rare dual entity, in the composition of which an education characterized by the basic materials of humanistic studies, enriched with the aesthetics of art and the harmony of music, must be sought. Moreover, the peculiarity of his spiritual origins, his idiosyncrasy, if you will, allows him to approach reality with a peculiar poetic sensitivity and with the penetrating sharpness of a gaze that has the gift of perceiving the still resisting natural environment, recalling through his images and descriptions of his memories. In the nostalgia of Theoharakis' Greek landscapes, it is not so much the external appearance of today that is depicted, but rather the emotion that consciousness has gleaned from his experiential experiences of the past. [...]

Angelos Delivorrias
Director of the Benaki Museum