The project

The ongoing Prosopa (Persons) series is comprised of more than 50 portraits of inspirational people worldwide, such as Mahatma Gandhi, Jose Marti, Terry Fox, Albert Schweitzer, Leo Tolstoy, Emiliano Zapata, Mark Twain, Roald Amundsen, Simon Bolivar, Hokusai and more. The portraits are executed in the traditional Byzantine iconographic style.

Exposure

The Prosopa (Persons) collection had a major exhibition in Greece as part of the cultural programming for the 2004 Olympic Games. Here is the press release:

The Port of Piraeus Organization hosts in Xaveri Coast from the 11th till the 30th of August 2004, the art Exhibit “Prosopa” of Yannis Gigas and Panayiota Kouvari.

Mahatma Gandhi, Mark Twain, Simon Bolivar, Jose Marti, Saladin, Truganini and other universal figures of the Good Battles, met in Xaveri, painted with the greek visual language, so to point out the spiritual way to demolish the Walls as well as the way that heroic prototypes unite and resurrect the peoples of the World.

The creation of this human chain that the pride and civilization of the peoples gave birth to, doesn´t stop with the personalities that are exhibited in Xaveri Coast. The project is of more than a hundred personalities, and the two artists would be glad to collaborate with any other artist who serves the traditional greek (“Byzantine”) art.

Images from the exhibition: Photo 1 | Photo 2 | Photo 3 | Photo 4 | Photo 5 | Photo 6 | Photo 7