alma contemporary art gallery
Art Athina 015 Catalogue
Participating artists Nikos Moschos Samuel Salcedo Dimitris Rokos Kalos & Klio
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Nikos Moschos Nikos Moschos, lives and works in urban Athens, a melting pot of cultures and currently, a european dystopia. He portrays compositions that are built by the mashing of humans, machines and raw emotion. He chooses a bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery leaving the viewer facing a violent reality, a feeling of being trapped, a world where space and time are merged in a technically perfect, classical composition. Moschos’s use of proportion, compression and highly exaggerated perspective becomes a nightmarish looking glass of a reality that is very much existing and cannot be overlooked.
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Nikos Moschos, A small possibility, acrylic on wood, 60 x 50 cm, 2014
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Nikos Moschos, Hide n' seek, acrylic on wood, 60 x 60 cm, 2015
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Nikos Moschos, I feel safe here, acrylic on wood, 60 x160 cm, 2015
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Nikos Moschos, Obsessive compulsive disorder, acrylic on linen, 60 x 50 cm, 2015
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Nikos Moschos, The last bastion, acrylic on paper, 80 x 100 cm, 2014
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Nikos Moschos, I heard a noise in the back yard while I was watching TV, acrylic on linen, 200x185 cm, 2014
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Samuel Salcedo In Samuel Salcedo art, irony mixes with the great sympathy to the humans. His realistically made sculptures show ridiculous, funny and some times touching heroes often show nuked. Despite of the small scale, Samuel’s works truly and deeply show all the complex of the human loneliness and confusion. Another vector of Samuel’s art is giant irreal heads with the distorted features that might show offense. In the age of social media, when each of us could create his own fake image, the artist uncovers shortcomings and weaknesses of an ordinary people showing them in an unusual way. Samuel explains: “I like to play with the image of the mask, to show the look that hide something or on the other hand show several emotions at the same time… My art is a reflection of ourselves, how we see each other and ourselves”.
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Samuel Salcedo, Forgotten idol I, Polyurethane resin and wood, 80 x 32 x 24 cm, 2015
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Samuel Salcedo, Forgotten idol II, Polyurethane resin and wood, 80 x 32 x 21 cm, 2015
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Samuel Salcedo, Nest, Resina de poliester resina epoxi y madera, 80 x 49 x 32 cm, 2014
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Samuel Salcedo, Rolling Stone II, Polyester resin, 70 x 70 x 70 cm, 2015
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Dimitris Rokos Dimitris Rokos captures scenes and situations in small paper with color pencils. These images are sometimes very specific and some other of undefined space-time and meaning. His main subject the little man, combines his love of parody and arts and painting as overgrown child.
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Dimitris Rokos, Self-eaters, Color pencils on paper, 17,5 x 21 cm, 2014
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Dimitris Rokos, Temple of Fear, Color pencils on paper, 13 x 11 cm, 2014
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Dimitris Rokos, The bars, Color pencils on paper, 28 x 38 cm, 2014
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Dimitris Rokos, The peacock, Color pencils on paper, 28 x 40 cm, 2014
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Dimitris Rokos, The circus, Color pencils on paper, 70 x 96 cm, 2015
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Kalos&Klio Kalos&Klio (Christos Kalos, Klio Tantalidis) is an artist duo born in Thessaloniki, Greece, where they live and work. The pair has joined forces since 2005 and operates in a complementary fashion, considering the process of working as one, a path more intriguing given that they come from different artistic trajectories. Kalos&Klio post- pop, post- psychedelic digital works are breaking through the boundaries of the arts encompassing a variety of printed media, sculpture and installation creating elaborate art environments that are intricate and multifaceted.
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Kalos&Klio, War carousel , Digital print on organic silk, 110 x 110 cm, 2015
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Kalos&Klio, Exodus , Digital print on organic silk, 110 x 110 cm, 2015
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e - catalogue designed by Nikolas Almpanis Š 2015
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