Nikolas (b. 1961, Athens) is a self-taught Greek artist who lives and works in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His sculptures find inspiration in the past and, at the same time, create a vision for the future. Like Alberto Giacometti and Paul Gaugin, Nikolas is fascinated by the minimal aesthetic of primitive civilizations, as well as by the purity of form in Protocycladic figurines and the dynamic movement of Minoan sculpture, which he modernizes in order to touch on universal subjects of the human condition such as love and the quest for spiritual enlightenment. The main theme of his first series of artworks is our relationship with ourselves, the world and the cosmos, in an age that is defined by machine learning.
EDUCATION
1983 University of Maryland
Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos
SOLO EXHIIBITIONS
2020 Anargyrios & Korgialenios School of Spetses, Spetses, Skepsis, curated by Annita Apostolaki & Anastasia Manioudaki
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 13th Florence Biennale (forthcoming)
2020 King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Jeddah, Artists of KAUST 2020
2019 NWA Art Gallery, Jeddah
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Jeddah, Artists of KAUST 2019
PRESS (selection)
2020 Adamopoulou Mary, O ikastikos Avgoustos ton Spetson (The arts August of Spetses), newspaper TA NEA, 13/8/20
5 ikastika dromena gia na deis dipla sto kyma (5 art events to see next to the sea), taneatistechnis.com (The Art Newspaper Greece), 6/8/20
Vasiliadou Maro, Ikastiki dimiourgia se oli tin Ellada (Art creation all over Greece), newspaper I Kathimerini, 29/7/20
