“Marginally Human”: The Retrospective Painting Exhibition of Nikos Moschos

"A painting ‘at boiling point’ that raises philosophical questions: about violence, humanism, coexistence."

27/06/2019

The Region of Crete and the Municipality of Heraklion are organizing a retrospective painting exhibition of the Heraklion-born painter Nikos Moschos, entitled “Marginally Human”, at the Municipal Art Gallery of Heraklion / Basilica of St. Mark. The exhibition will open on Friday, July 12, 2019, at 19:00. Its duration will be from July 12 to August 29.

The exhibition includes works created between 2012 and 2019, many of which are part of Greek and international collections, as well as works that will be presented to the public for the first time.

In the context of the exhibition, a catalog of the works will be published, featuring texts by art historian Christoforos Marinos and James Wright, Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology.

Art historian Christoforos Marinos comments:
"Painting is, beyond a way of life, an ethical activity, and the works of Nikos Moschos demonstrate our relationship with the world. If we were to compile a vocabulary that conveys the aesthetic and the feeling evoked by his works, the most representative words would be ‘amalgam,’ ‘alloy,’ ‘maelstrom,’ ‘fusion,’ ‘crucible.’ Moschos’s painting – a painting ‘at boiling point’ – touches on philosophical questions: about violence, humanism, coexistence. The clash of forms in his paintings is directly related to the concept of posthumanism, interpreted as a philosophical confrontation about the future of humankind.”

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 SWAB Art Fair (Barcelona) with ENA Contemporary Gallery, in 2014 at 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 – Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery (Athens).

He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, such as at the Benaki Museum (Athens) (2004, 2007, 2009), at the State Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki) (2007), at 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), Beijing (2008), Istanbul (2010), Brussels (2010, 2011), Vienna (2014), New York (2015), Berlin (2015), Szczecin / Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes (2019), and more.

He has created several works for book covers, CDs, and magazines. His works are part of the collections of the Benaki Museum (Athens), Sammlung-Schirm (Berlin), PTE Fine Arts (New York), Bernard Cheong Collection (Singapore), A. Krausser Collection (Dubai), and other private collections in Greece and abroad.