Nikos Lagos Solo Exhibition April 2015
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Nikos Lagos Short Bio
1970 Born in Athens, Greece 1988-1997 Architecture – Engineer, Nationa Technical University of Athens 1997-2002 Associated with many well known architectural offices in Athens. Has been working solo in architecture and building construction 2002-2006 Athens School of Fine Arts under J. Psychopedis From 2008 collaborates with Zoumboulakis galleries and in Switzerland with Tart Gallery in Zurich.
Solo Exhibitions 2014 Tart Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland 2013 Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens 2011 Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens (virtual tour) 2008 Contrast Gallery, Brussels 2008 Astrolavos Gallery, Athens 2007 Contrast Gallery, Brussels
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Nikos Lagos Short Bio
Group Exhibitions 2014 ‘DIA’ Architectual, Scuplture and Painting Exhibition, Byzantine Museum 2013 PLOES XIX, ‘In Medias Res’, Going to Ithaca, Petros and Marika Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros 2012 ‘Love shelters and various love stories’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens ‘Small Paintings’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens ‘Big City’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens 2011 ‘Small Paintings’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens 2010 ‘Small Paintings’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens 2009 ‘Small Paintings’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens 2008 ArtAthina Art Fair ‘Small Paintings’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens ‘2007-2008 Exclusives’ Astrolavos Gallery, Athens 2007 ArtAthina Art Fair ‘Visual Arts 2007′ State Museum of Contemporary Art , Thessaloniki ‘2006-2007 Exclusives’ Astrolavos Gallery ‘Metropolis’ Municipal Gallery of Athens 2006 ‘Fata Morgana’, Benaki Museum, Athens 2005 ‘Routes’, architectural and painting exhibition, Patra Contrast Gallery, Brussels
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About Lagos’s work written by Yiannis Bolis, Art Historian
Nikos Lagos presents picture – psychograms in which he converses with his desires, fears, memories, reality and his natural and social environment. With intentions being drawn from his experiences he maps microcosms and mazes that jostle and coexist with pictures, symbols, words, letters, sentences and linguistic games either in high or low density. Through intense colours or the nearly monochromatic attribution, the schematization, the simplification and his writing that directly and consciously refers to children’s drawings or graffiti , he creates a complex frame of references, he confesses and addresses, reveals and undermines and negotiates notions and meanings. He approaches and investigates the contradictions and the complexities, the different aspects and versions of a chaotic world that is broken to pieces and has lost its stability and points of reference. His vital relationship and instability with the world is depicted in a way that is imaginative and eventful, well-timed and allusive. His works are produced in a subversive spirit and ironic mood, disarming and anarchic sense of humour and sarcasm of himself. It is the mature result of his meditation not only on the modern condition and situation or his critical mind towards the exaggeration of technology, the commonly accepted morals and values, the stereotypes, the roles, the identities, the fabricated media images and role models but also on concepts such as creation, the relationship between the artist and his own self and the artist’s role, position and presence in the society. Giannis Bolis Art Historian
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Crane Oil on cavas 180X180cm 2015
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Things to do Oil on canvas 70x70cm 2014
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Tik Tak Oil on canvas 100x100cm 2014
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Pigs Oil on canvas 50x50cm 2014
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Clouds Oil on canvas 100X70cm 2014
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Fool Oil on canvas 120x60cm 2014
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Untitled Oil and Charcoal on paper mounted on canvas 150X150cm 2014
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Untitled Oil on canvas 100X100cm 2014
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Untitled Oil on canvas 50x50cm 2014
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ΑΝ Oil on canvas 50X50cm 2015
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Untitled Oil on canvas 70X70cm 2014
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