Polys Peslikas
11.4 2024 – 15.6 2024
Mint, ABF Stockholm, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm
Thursday, April 11, Mint warmly invites you to a new solo exhibition with artist Polys Peslikas.
Opening reception: April 11, 5–8 pm
Polys Peslikas (b. 1973, Cyprus) is a painter based in London. His practice also encompasses works on paper, performance, and the use of ephemera. He is interested in the constructed narratives of image and desire, and in notions of the physical in the history of western art. His methodology develops on the basis of an open, self-generating creative process and draws references from various sources, including classical mythology, folk and sacred iconography, as well as cultural elements drawn from memory and his own on-going image-library project, which began in 1990. Peslikas’ compositions often feature figures that recall classical subjects like the ‘model’ and the ‘studio’ as a way to point out, question and unsettle heteronormative conceptions of masculinity.
This is his first exhibition in Sweden.
Solo exhibitions include among others: This Delusive Sentiment, ARCH Athens (GR); And leaned shoulder against the window, RADIO ATHÈNES (GR); Reenactments (Bacchus), ICA Milan (IT), Studies on the Verticality of Mars, Mackintosh Lane (UK), Studies on variations ‘malerei’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE) The Future of Color, The Cyprus pavilion in the Venice Biennale 2017. Recent group shows include: Ah, This!, FELIX GAUDLITZ Vienna (AUT) How to Build a Garden, Point Center, Nicosia (CY) Nuit Blanche, Villa Medici Rome (IT), Stasi Frenetica, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Torino (IT), Second Prague Painting Biennale