“Marginally Human”: Painting Exhibition by Nikos Moschos
The Region of Crete and the Municipality of Heraklion are organizing a retrospective painting exhibition of the Heraklion-born painter Nikos Moschos, titled “Marginally Human”, at the Municipal Art Gallery of Heraklion / Basilica of Saint Mark. The exhibition opening will take place on Friday, July 12th, 2019, at 19:00.
The exhibition will run from July 12th to August 29th.
The exhibition includes works created between 2012 and 2019, which belong to Greek and international collections, while several works will also be presented to the public for the first time.
As part of the exhibition, a catalogue of the works will be published, featuring texts by art historian Christoforos Marinos and James Wright, Emeritus Professor of Classical Archaeology.
The exhibition will be open to the public Monday–Friday from 09:00–14:00 and 17:00–21:00, on Saturday from 09:00–14:00, and closed on Sundays.
Regarding this important upcoming exhibition in Heraklion, art historian Christoforos Marinos comments:
“Painting is, beyond a way of life, an ethical activity, and the works of Nikos Moschos reveal our relationship with the world. If we had to compose a vocabulary that captures the aesthetics and atmosphere of his works, we would choose as most representative the words ‘amalgam’, ‘alloy’, ‘maelstrom’, ‘fusion’, ‘crucible’. Moschos’ painting—art ‘at boiling point’—raises philosophical questions: about violence, humanism, coexistence. The clash of forms in his paintings is directly connected to the concept of posthumanism, that is, it is interpreted as a philosophical conflict over the future of humanity.”
Nikos Moschos was born in 1979 in Heraklion, Crete. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1997–2003). He lives and works in Athens.
He has held six solo exhibitions: in 2016 at the SWAB Art Fair (Barcelona) with Ena Contemporary Gallery; in 2014 at the SWAB Art Fair (Barcelona) with ALMA Gallery; in 2013 at Art Athina with Gallery Penindaplinena (Athens); in 2012 at Xippas Gallery (Athens); in 2010 at Galerie Theorema (Brussels); and in 2007 at Ekfrasi – Gianna Grammatopoulou Gallery (Athens).
He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including at the Benaki Museum in Athens (2004, 2007, 2009), the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (2007), Art Athina (2005–2015), as well as in Italy (Bologna 2003, Venice 2008, Rome 2009, Palermo / Museo Diocesano 2019, Genoa / Museo di Sant’agostino 2019), in Beijing (2008), Istanbul (2010), Brussels (2010, 2011), Vienna (2014), New York (2015), Berlin (2015), Szczecin (Pomeranian Dukes’ Castle 2019), and others.
He has created numerous works for book covers, CDs, and magazines. His works can be found at the Benaki Museum (Athens), Sammlung-Schirm (Berlin), PTE Fine Arts (New York), Bernard Cheong Collection (Singapore), A. Krausser Collection (Dubai), and various private collections in Greece and abroad.