Within the framework of the 21st Naxos Festiva

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Eighteen paintings by Nikos Moschos—both new and older works, some from Private Collections and the Zoumboulakis Gallery—together with two sculptures, created for the first time by the artist, are presented from June 27 to September 26, 2021, at Bazeos Tower in Naxos.

On the exhibition titled “Animated Connotations”, art historian Francesco Piazza notes:
“If in contemporary painting there is a return to figuration at the expense of abstraction and conceptual art, we owe it to artists like Nikos Moschos, who shapes his perception of art through a new figurative idiom; unpredictable, full of dramatic and mature symbolism.

Moschos’ painting assaults the senses like a punch to the stomach or a flash in the eye. It hypnotizes and anesthetizes; it unsettles memory and all the senses. In each of his works lies the intention to depict forms and archetypes, starting from their cognitive process and their ability to create new worlds out of universal stereotypes of reality—the reality from which we all come and which we believe we know.

His modular iconographic narration cancels the stillness of the canvas, automatically prompting human perception to set the images it observes into motion, generating reflections while simultaneously penetrating universal archetypes through his own personal language.”

The exhibition is part of the program of the 21st Naxos Festival, which takes place every summer, with Bazeos Tower—a preserved 17th-century monument in the island’s hinterland—as its focal point. The Festival is held under the auspices and with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Sports.