Project Description
Emmanouil Bitsakis – Gregory Grozos
Realized Fragments
curated by Machi Pesmatzoglou
Nitra Gallery in Thessaloniki is happy to present Realized Fragments exhibition by Gregory Grozos and Emmanouil Bitsakis, two artists that choose miniature as a way of expression. The exhibition poses questions in regards to the ideology and the reasons of this choice and it attempts to decode the necessity of constructing small-scale works that condense complex universes, that substitute reality.
Gregory Grozos creates sculptural compositions with the intention of creating symbolic miniatures of the world, which encapsulate contradictory concepts and themes, while Emmanouil Bitsakis paints on small sized surfaces, where he composes controlled, perfectly organized worlds.
Precision in the way they are executed, the focus on the detail, the undermining of the conventional, the directing of paradoxical, contradictory visual sets are some of the obsessions of the two artists in the exhibition.
- Realized Fragments | Emmanouil Bitsakis – Gregory Grozos | Installation view
- Realized Fragments | Emmanouil Bitsakis – Gregory Grozos | Installation view
- Realized Fragments | Emmanouil Bitsakis – Gregory Grozos | Installation view
- Realized Fragments | Emmanouil Bitsakis – Gregory Grozos | Installation view
- Realized Fragments | Emmanouil Bitsakis – Gregory Grozos | Installation view
- Realized Fragments | Emmanouil Bitsakis – Gregory Grozos | Installation view
- Realized Fragments | Emmanouil Bitsakis – Gregory Grozos | Installation view
- Realized Fragments | Emmanouil Bitsakis – Gregory Grozos | Installation view
- Realized Fragments | Emmanouil Bitsakis – Gregory Grozos | Installation view
- Emmanouil Bitsakis – Statue, 2019, acrylics on canvas, 13 x 18 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Revealed, mixed media, 20 x 23 x 9 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Weight, mixed media, 19 x 15 x 8 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Storytime, mixed media, 6 x 6 x 6 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Untitled, pencil on paper, 16 x 11.5 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Observing, mixed media, 19 x 15 x 8 cm
- Emmanouil Bitsakis – Colossus of Rhodes, 2014, acrylics on cardboard, 13 x 10 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Growing a Garden, mixed media, 16 x 18 x 6 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Untitled, mixed media, 23 x 21 x 7 cm
- Emmanouil Bitsakis – Not Quite Virgin Mary, Not Quite Mohammad, 2018 acrylics on cardboard, 13 x 10 cm
- Emmanouil Bitsakis – Pan’s Cave, 2018, acrylics on cardboard, 13 x 10 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Transmutation, mixed media, 33 x 19 x 4 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Balloon, pencil on paper, 30 x 20 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Untitled, pencil on paper, 30 x 20 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Man of the Age of Steam, pencil on paper, 30 x 20 cm
- Emmanouil Bitsakis – Standing Figure, acrylics on canvas, 30 x 22 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Undiscovered, mixed media, 30 x 18 x 18 cm
- Emmanouil Bitsakis – Oedipus Rex, 2019, acrylics on wood, 17 x 7.5 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Archaeology, mixed media, 22 x 18 x 7 cm
- Emmanouil Bitsakis – Francis Joseph, 2019, acrylics on wood, 17 x 8.5 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Above, mixed media, 20 x 20 x 7 cm
- Gregory Grozos – The Dig, 2019, mixed media, 10 x 10 cm
- Gregory Grozos – Untitled, 2016, pencil on paper, 20 x 15 cm
Gregory Grozos
Gregory Grozos was born in Athens in 1980. He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and continued his studies at the Dutch Art Institute at Enschede in the Netherlands. He has presented many solo shows and participated in group shows in Greece, Ireland, Cyprus and the Netherlands and has also participated in international Festivals and Art Fairs. Works of his can be found in collections in Greece and abroad. Lives and works in Cyprus
Emmanouil Bitsakis
Emmanouil Bitsakis was born in Athens in 1974. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. In 2001 and 2008 he studied at the Institute of Denmark in Athens and the National Portrait Gallery through Fellowships. He also lived in Copenhagen and China. He has presented five solo shows and has participated in art fairs and group shows in Greece and abroad.