Nakis Panayotidis

Born in Athens in 1947. Studied Architecture in Turin and Fine Arts and Cinema in Rome.

Lives and works in Bern.

He presented his work in more than fifty individual exhibitions around the world, in museums and centres of modern art (Bern, Genova, London, La Spezia, Thessaloniki, etc. )  and galleries (Artis Causa Gallery, Thessaloniki).
Also participated in many group exhibitions.

His drawing work is structured with geometric forms, influenced from Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Arte Povera. Scription and speech occupied him as form maxims and phrases are presented on his tables, often combined with photographs. The phase that characterizes him more is this of light-constructions, compositions whose basic raw material are black and white photographs, from industrial remains and abandoned quarries of Greece and other European cities, printed out on canvas with painting intervention.
Supplementary objects emanate from the depicted places (asphalt, electric cables and lamps, metal, straws, timber, etc.) and partially are covered by leaves of lead, mentioning ancient expressions and texts or exoglyph on metal surfaces. Written with chalk, charcoal, etc. neon elements are being used occasionally.