Kostas Papanikolaou - Four Seasons

Four Seasons by Kostas Papanikolaou at the Niarchos Centre, Athens.

The exhibition was held in the Library.

Papanikolaou is considered as one of the most important artists of the New Figuration movement in Greece. His works narrate a dreamlike reality that unfolds around a series of recurring themes: urban life and interiors, dreamy landscapes, seascapes.  His paintings are selectively realistic, highly narrative with a disarming simplicity and a bold use of colours.

This exhibition was organised around the four seasons.

Summer:

Poros, 1998, (oil on canvas)

looking closer

Poros, 1998, (oil on canvas)

Hydra, 2021, (egg-tempera on plywood)

Houses in Poros, (fresco on bricks)

sideways view

Spring:

Landscape, (oil on canvas)

View from the Window, 1983, (pencil and tempera on paper mounted on cardboard)

Summer Room, 1981, (oil on paper mounted on canvas)

Poros, (watercolour on paper)

Window, (pencil and oil on paper)

Autumn:

On Board, 2020, (egg-tempera on plywood)

On the Board on the Way To Galatas - Poros, 2019, (egg-tempera on plywood)

Night Landscape - Eleusis, 1978, (oil on canvas)

Olive Tree, (fresco)

Lemon Tree in Poros, 2021, (charcoal and egg-tempera on plywood)

looking closer

Inner Courtyard in Exarchia, 1979, (watercolour on paper)

Fuga No. 7, (mixed media on plywood)

Fuga No. 8, (egg-tempera on marine plywood)

Winter:

Apartment Building, 2024, (egg-tempera on plywood)

looking closer

Athens, (pencil and egg-tempera on plywood)

looking closer

Teachers' Office at Karpenisi High School, (pencil and ink on paper)

Teachers' Office at Karpenisi High School, 1989, (pencil and ink on paper)