The French-Greek painter Nicolas Panayotou offers us an endless hypnotic
source through several series of paintings, sculptures and ceramics, the
result of a pictorial research work of more than 25 years.
Coming from the Parisian graffiti movement of the 80’s in Paris, the artist
started creating art as a teenager, first with tagging, before moving on to
murals.
These abstract compositions bore the essence of his future iconography and
his signature use of chromatic effects combined with a mastered
technicality.
After studying art history and visual arts, he developed his art into the
optical art of kinetics in the early 2000s.
His main axis is to create optical spaces in movement, borrowing from
forms with ancient and contemporary references with a painting technique
that rivals airbrush and digital imagery. All these works, painted only by
hand, are defined by the process that he baptized “the digital hand”.
In his series Pinacoteca, the artist presents the square form in four
equilateral triangles inspired by the primitive form of the Egyptian pyramid
seen from a bird’s eye view. A deliberated blur of color gradients creates a
hypnotic universe of vibrant trajectories, with the resulting kaleidoscopic
spaces offering the gaze the illusion of movement.
The Chromatic range, the mixtures and the superpositions guide the
spectator in the meanders of a singular chromatic range. Through his art,
Panayotou invites guests into another dimension, where plans and
inspirations shape a real cosmic landscape.
N. Panayotou offers a unique space of thought, bridging past and future, and
intertwinning the outside world with hidden interiority.
SOLO SHOWS :
2022 Gallery François Durand, Paris (France)
2021 Interstellar, Gallery ArtisMagna, Paris (France)
2019 Nul n’entre ici s’il n’est géomètre, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris (France)
2017 Osmose, Gallery Popy Arvani, Paris (France)
2015 Rodhon, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris (France)
2014 Eon, Gallery Popy Arvani, Paris (France)
Video performance, Forum Cultural Forum France-China
Musée du quai Branly, Paris (France)
2013 Vibrations, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris (France)
2012 12 silences, Gallery Popy Arvani, Paris (France)
2010 Art Paris Fair (France), Solo show, Grand Palais Gallery Volchkova, Paris
(France)
Exposition personnelle, Gallery Volchkova, Paris (France)
2008 Gaia gallery, Pireus, Greece
Carte Blanche à Nicolas Panayotou, Solo show in collaboration with Dries
Van Noten, Ministry of Culture, Paris (France)
Gallery Athens Art Space, Greece
2007 Iris Eros, Gallery Popy Arvani, Paris (France)
2006 Pinacothèque of Mykonos, Greece
Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2005 Les tourbillons cosmiques, Gallery Popy Arvani, Paris (France)
2004 Homériades, Olympic Games, Home town of Ios, Greece
GROUP SHOWS :
2021 Dérives, Gallery Popy Arvani, Paris (France)
2021 Urban Art Fair, galerie Ground effect, Paris (France)
2020 Exposition VAO, galerie Ground effect, Paris (France)
2019 Biennale « the days of the light », France
2018 Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2016 Hong Kong Art Fair A2Z Art Gallery, China
2015 Art Beijing avec A2Z Art Gallery, China
2013 Chaque pétale est une fleur, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris (France)
Art Paris Fair(France), Grand Palais, A2Z Art Gallery, Paris (France)
2012 Trilogie, Gallery Lavignes Bastille, Paris (France)
2011 Gallery Lavignes Bastille, Paris (France)
Gallery Michel Miltgen, Luxembourg
2009 Gallery Volchkova, Paris (France)
2008 Gallery Popy Arvani, Paris (France)
2007 Home town of Ios, Greece
2006 Gallery Epipeda, Paros, Greece
Gallery Ersi’s, Athènes, Greece
Gallery Popy Arvani, Paris (France)
2002 Gallery Miguel Amaté, Paris (France)
2000 Gallery Miguel Amaté, Paris (France)