Venice is a city built on reflection—its waters shimmering with history, its glassmaking a legacy of light, colour, and mastery. Blue, too, has carried the weight of symbolism across centuries: the pigment of the divine, the hue of wealth, the shade of depth and distance.
On the occasion of being invited to participate in Personal Structures, organised by the European Cultural Center Italy during the 2026 Venice Biennale, Yorgos Papadopoulos draws upon his wealth of blue works, created over many years, for this exhibition. A dialogue emerges between tradition and experimentation, memory and discovery, where glass becomes both vessel and vision.
The works on show today exposes Yorgos’s personal relationship with the colour—pigment and light are fused into meditations on vastness and destination. It’s the colour that dragged him, unafraid of Poseidon, all the way to the White Continent to bring back its riches for Ithaka. The journey continues..
