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16 June 2021

Naxos’ artistic summer opens with a solo exhibition by Nikos Moschos at the Bazeos Tower, launching on 26 June as a prelude to the celebrated Naxos Festival. As every summer, the festival centers on the 17th-century listed monument in the island’s hinterland, at Agiassos.

Eighteen works—both recent pieces and earlier ones—have been brought together from private collections and the Zoumboulakis Gallery for Animated Connotations, Moschos’ new exhibition, which also includes two of the artist’s sculptures.

Moschos’ painting, with its distorted human flesh, machines, and musical instruments fused into a crushing whole, “strikes the senses like a punch to the stomach or a flash to the eye. It hypnotizes and numbs, shaking memory and all the senses,” notes art historian Francesco Piazza. He stresses that “if in contemporary painting there is a return to figuration at the expense of abstraction and conceptual art, we owe it to artists like Nikos Moschos, who shapes his vision through a new figurative idiom—unpredictable, laden with dramatic and mature symbolism […] Moschos’ modular pictorial narrative cancels out the stillness of the canvas, prompting human perception to set the images in motion, sparking thought while simultaneously delving into universal archetypes through his own personal language.”

Curated by Marios Vazeos, Animated Connotations runs until 26 September.

The Naxos Festival is held under the auspices and with the support of the Ministry of Culture.