Nakis Panayotidis

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Nakis Panayotidis ( Greek Νάκης Παναγιωτίδης ; born January 24, 1947 in Athens ) is a Greek object and installation artist.

life and work

Panayotidis began studying architecture in Turin in 1966 and switched to fine arts, theater and film in Rome in 1967 . He worked with stone, asphalt and lead, with which he made “signs” in words and pictures. He had his first exhibition participation in Turin in 1970. In 1971 he met Agnès Häussler, whom he married in 1973. The first solo exhibition was at the Galerie Wahlen in Bern, where he has lived since then. In 1975 the daughter Anastasia Artemis was born. In 1977 he worked at the Centro internazionale di sperimentazioni artistiche in Boissano together with Maurizio Mocchetti as well as Marisa and Mario Merz . Since 1980 he has been back in Greece frequently , where he bought a house on Serifos . In 1985 the first tar and tar cardboard pictures with straw and stones ( Goya ) were created. In 1987 the installation The tip of wisdom turns against the wise ( Nietzsche ) was created. In 1989 the first wall picture installations with writing boards and photographs of abandoned ore mines on Serifos, light installations. In addition to the asphalt writing boards, the lead writing boards appeared in 1991. In addition to the mnemographies of the abandoned ore mine, there were those of an abandoned steel factory in Eleusis in 1993 . In 1994 his first museum exhibition was at the Kunstmuseum Bern . In 2005 the book Nakis Panayotidis - Ladro di Luce was published by Bruno Corà and Benteli Verlag, Bern. Nakis Panayotidis lives in Bern , Switzerland.

Exhibitions

selection

  • 1974: Galerie Wahlen, Bern
  • 1979: Centro internazionale di sperimentazioni artistiche, Boissano (catalog)
  • 1989: Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens (catalog)
  • 1994: Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
  • 1994: Kunstmuseum Bern (catalog)
  • 1995: Lehmann Gallery, Lausanne
  • 1996: Rethymnon Center for Contemporary Art, Rethymno / Crete (catalog)
  • 1996: Henze & Ketterer Gallery, Wichtrach / Bern (1997 catalog)
  • 1999: Henze & Ketterer Gallery, Wichtrach / Bern
  • 2000: Uchronos-Utopos, Kunsthalle Erfurt
  • 2001: Beyond architectural visions, Hess Collection at Vinopolis, London
  • 2003: Palazzo Ducale, Museo per l'arte moderna, Genoa
  • 2005: Ladro di luce, State Museum of Contemporary Art Thessaloniki (catalog)
  • 2006: MIRA, SEA Simposium Escultura Alicante (catalog)
  • 2006: NUDE, Centro d'Arte Moderna e contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia (catalog)
  • 2007: No limits, no distances, la lune en parachute. Center d'art contemporain, Epinal
  • 2008: Lightmemory, Henze & Ketterer Gallery, Wichtrach / Bern
  • 2009: La Forza del sogno, Gallery Artis Causa, Thessaloniki
  • 2010: Ivresse rêvée, Galerie Tornabuoni Arte, Paris (catalog)
  • 2012: Nakis Panayotidis, Galleria Civica di Modena (catalog)
  • 2014: Nakis Panayotidis - Seeing the Invisible, Kunstmuseum Bern (catalog)
  • 2015: Nakis Panayotidis - Guardando l'invisibile, MACRO, Museo d'arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome
  • 2017: Steinmann Foundation Art at the Tower, Schloss Wil , Schlosswil / Bern
  • 2017: Hess Collection Museum, Napa (CA), USA

literature

  • Hans Christoph von Tavel (Ed.): Nakis Panayotidis - Mnemography . With texts by Viana Conti, Demosthenes Davvetas, Egi Volterrani and Nakis Panayotidis. Benteli Verlag, Bern-Wabern, 1994
  • Viana Conti (ed.): Panayotidis - Viaggianando la luce . With texts by Bruno Cora and Hans Christoph von Tavel. Electa, Milan, 2003
  • Bruno Corà (ed.): Nakis Panayotidis - Ladro di Luce . With texts by Miltiades M. Papanikolaou, Denys Zacharopoulos, Katerina Koskina, Kai Uwe Schierz, Nakis Panayotidis and Viana Conti. Benteli Verlag, Bern-Wabern, 2005
  • Matthias Frehner and Marco Pierini: Nakis Panayotidis . Exhibition catalog of the Galleria Civica di Modena. Silvana Editoriale, Milan, 2012
  • Kunstmuseum Bern, Matthias Frehner and Regula Berger (eds.), Nakis Panayotidis. Seeing the invisible / Nakis Panayotidis. Seeing the Invisible , exhibition catalog Kunstmuseum Bern, Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich, 2014, No. 55 in the program of the Binding Sélection d'Artistes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Exhibition catalog Nakis Panayotidis: Lightmemory, Galerie Henze & Ketterer, 2008, p. 70
  2. ^ Exhibition catalog Nakis Panayotidis, Galleria civica di Modena, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2012, p. 103
personal data
SURNAME Panayotidis, Nakis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Παναγιωτίδης, Νάκης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens