Eighteen paintings by Nikos Moschos—both new and older ones, some originating from private collections and the Zoumboulakis Gallery—together with two sculptures created for the first time by the artist, are presented from June 27 to September 26 at the Bazeos Tower in Naxos.

For the exhibition titled Animated Connotations, art historian Francesco Piazza notes:
“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 perception of art through a new figurative idiom; unpredictable, full of dramatic and mature symbolism.

Moschos’ painting strikes the senses like a punch to the stomach or a flash to the eye. It hypnotizes and numbs; it shakes memory and all the senses. In each of his works lies the intention to depict forms and archetypes, beginning from their cognitive process and their capacity to create new worlds out of universal stereotypes of reality—the reality from which we all come and which we believe we know.”

The exhibition is part of the program of the 21st Naxos Festival, held every summer with its focal point being the Bazeos Tower, a preserved 17th-century monument in the island’s hinterland (12th km of the Naxos Town–Agiasos road).