Nikos Lagos Solo Exhibition

April 2015

11970Born in Athens, Greece1988-1997Architecture – Engineer, Nationa Technical University of Athens1997-2002 Associated with many well known architectural offices in Athens. Has been working solo in architecture and building construction2002-2006Athens School of Fine Arts under J. Psychopedis From 2008 collaborates with Zoumboulakis galleries and in  Switzerland with Tart Gal-lery in Zurich.

   Solo Exhibitions

2014Tart Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland2013Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens2011Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens (virtual tour)2008Contrast Gallery, Brussels2008Astrolavos Gallery, Athens2007Contrast Gallery, Brussels  

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Group Exhibitions

2014‘DIA’ Architectual, Scuplture and Painting Exhibition, Byzantine Museum2013PLOES XIX, ‘In Medias Res’, Going to Ithaca,Petros and Marika Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros2012‘Love shelters and various love stories’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens‘Small Paintings’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens‘Big City’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens2011‘Small Paintings’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens2010‘Small Paintings’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens2009‘Small Paintings’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens2008ArtAthina Art Fair‘Small Paintings’ Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens‘2007-2008 Exclusives’ Astrolavos Gallery, Athens2007ArtAthina Art Fair‘Visual Arts 2007′ State Museum of Contemporary Art , Thessaloniki‘2006-2007 Exclusives’ Astrolavos Gallery‘Metropolis’ Municipal Gallery of Athens2006‘Fata Morgana’, Benaki Museum, Athens2005‘Routes’, architectural and painting exhibition, PatraContrast Gallery, Brussels 

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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 sche-matization, the simplification and his writing that directly and consciously refers to chil-dren’s drawings or graffiti , he creates a complex frame of references, he confesses and addresses, reveals and undermines and negotiates notions and meanings. He ap-proaches and investigates the contradictions and the complexities, the different as-pects 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 sar-casm of himself. It is the mature result of his meditation not only on the modern condi-tion and situation or his critical mind towards the exaggeration of technology, the com-monly accepted morals and values, the stereotypes, the roles, the identities, the fabri-cated media images and role models but also on concepts such as creation, the rela-tionship between the artist and his own self and the artist’s role, position and presence in the society.

Giannis BolisArt Historian

About Lagos’s work

written byYiannis Bolis, Art Historian

4 CraneOil on cavas180X180cm2015

5 Things to doOil on canvas 70x70cm2014

6 Tik TakOil on canvas 100x100cm2014

7 PigsOil on canvas 50x50cm2014

8 CloudsOil on canvas 100X70cm2014

9 FoolOil on canvas 120x60cm2014

10 UntitledOil and Charcoal on paper mounted on canvas 150X150cm2014

11 UntitledOil on canvas 100X100cm2014

12 UntitledOil on canvas 50x50cm2014

13 ΑΝOil on canvas50X50cm2015

14 UntitledOil on canvas 70X70cm2014

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