Mikaya Petros - Italy
ABOUT Mikaya…
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Mikaya Petros was born in Milan, Italy, class of 1964, daughter of the surrealist painter Petros. She trained in her father's atelier where she made four- handed photo collages, pictorial and material works. Her encounter in the 1970s with Andy Warhol was incisive. It was in her maternal uncle's production, post-production and computer graphics house that the artist worked from a young age creating digital and video contributions. "Painting for me is like singing in the shower on a sunny day," she says. Through digital experimentation, her art investigates the Surrealist matrix, giving rise to conceptual and formal research with a breath that deepens the boundary between Reality, Time and Symbolism. The subjects of her works, realized through a digital photographic language, live in a contemporary dreamlike dimension. In her creative process Virtual Reality and Temporal Spaces are investigated, decomposed and reassembled in a neo-contemporary vision. This is the mirror and parallel reflection of a world yet to be deciphered.
Her works have been exhibited at the Expo Fiera in Milan, the Biennale BID in Trieste 2021, the Michelangelo Expo Prize in Rome, Arte Laguna World at the Arsenale, the Dante Alighieri Palazzo Borghese Prize in Florence, the Dante Academy in London 2021, the Enchanted Garden Exhibition in Belgium, the Luxemburg Prize, the Tower House in the UK, at XI Esposición Internacional in Valencia in Spain, at 5th Pasa Art Festival in Korea, at Osten Biennale in Macedonia, at Big Screen Plaza and Found Work of Art in NYC in USA , at Art Facts and International Painting Biennale in Hamburg 2022. Her works in the Permanent Collections of Sartori Archive in Mantova, Ca' Pesaro Museum in Venice, Como Landscape Museum , Cica Museum in Korea, The Art Center Dover New Hampshire USA, Maritime of Bordeux in France and the Permanent Collection in the Serpone Foundation in Rome, Mykonos and Syros Museums in Greece and Moca Museum.
Instagram @mikaypetros
Publications:
Archive Art Magazine December 2020 and January 2021. Art Now 2021 March and April. Intsliquid interview May 2021. Cover volume Emily Dickinson Liguori Editore. The ArtGuide 2022. Sartori Catalog 2022. SaatchiArt 2022. Exibart 2022. Artbox Project Catalogue CH 2023 asmburg Biennale Catalogue 2023, Mikaya Petros Catalogue 2023.
I like to place oil painting at the center of my work, a familiar aroma since I grew up among brushes in my father's studio. I draw on the canvas an intermediate space between the before and after, between the saying and the magical silence with long oblique lines, a legacy of my passion for photography I like to experiment with a variety of materials creating what becomes almost an extension of my pictorial discourse in space. I love polychromy and the unusual use of colored pigments on medium and large canvases. I have an abstract dna and the figurative element tells my contemporaneity. I represent the human cloning of our near future, as in the work entitled Clonable Identity permanently in the Cà Pesaro Museum.
Website: https://artelaguna.world/artist/petros-papavassiliou-mikaya-michela/
Contact: m.papavassiliou@live.it
Title: "Unspoken Words"
Materials: oil on canvas
Measurements: 70cm x 50cm
Year: 2022
Price: $ 5000 USD
Contact: m.papavassiliou@live.it
Unspoken Words best expresses my research, through Art, not only introspective, investigating the relationship between spirit and body, but also between the individual, her silhouette and the surrounding atmosphere.In the painting an almost sculptural agglomeration weighs down on the head of the female subject arching her back. These are the ideas, thoughts , aspirations that bounce around in our heads, rising upward sometimes remaining, as fixed thoughts, others evaporating from our memory. It is a process in which the word is fugitive, remains inside us and will never be uttered.The work is part of the Permanent Collection Fondazione Serpone Roma and was set to music by soprano Silvia Colombini listenable through a dedicated qrcode.
在这幅画中，一个近乎雕塑的集合体压在了拱起背部的女性主体的头上。这些都是在我们脑海中跳来跳去的想法、念头和愿望，它们时而上升，时而保持固定的想法，时而从我们的记忆中消失。这件作品是 Fondazione Serpone Roma 永久收藏品的一部分，由女高音歌唱家西尔维娅-科隆比尼（Silvia Colombini）配乐，可通过专用的 qrcode 进行收听.
Title: "Dante and Beatrice's Eden"
Materials: oil on canvas
Measurements: 50cm x 50cm
Year: 2022
Price: $ 5000 USD
Contact: m.papavassiliou@live.it
This artwork is inspired by the last verse of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri: "The Love that moves the sun and the other stars" taken from Paradiso XXXIII verse 145. First slowly two children hold hands to represent the sentiment of love, on the right the sun of Vergina, symbol of the ancient Macedonian state, refers to the painter's Hellenic roots and to the solar element, an astral constellation echoes Dante's aphorism. The abstract and polychromatic background seems to move in a metaphysical space, like the desire and the will of the poet that underlies the aforementioned phrase. The stars represent the goal to which Dante aspires and like the phrase that inspires the painting, it contains the meaning of Dante's entire work, so the pictorial interpretation contains the meaning of his artistic translation. The arrwork is set by music by korean pianist Younee https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vE1yrPekB7c
但丁和贝阿特丽斯的伊甸园 (Dante and Beatrice's Eden）布面油画，50x50cm，奖金 5000 美元，灵感来自但丁-阿利吉耶里（Dante Alighieri）的《神曲》最后一节："爱让太阳和其他星星移动"，摘自《天堂》第三十三章第 145 节。首先缓缓移动的是两个手牵手的孩子，代表了爱的情感；右边是象征古马其顿国的韦尔吉纳太阳，寓意画家的希腊血统和太阳元素，一个星体星座呼应了但丁的箴言。抽象的多色背景似乎在一个形而上的空间中移动，就像上述箴言所蕴含的诗人的欲望和意志。星星代表但丁向往的目标，就像激发这幅画的那句话一样，它包含了但丁整部作品的含义，因此画作的诠释也包含了但丁艺术翻译的含义。该作品由韩国钢琴家 Younee https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vE1yrPekB7c 演奏。
Title: "Spiritual Nomade"
Materials: oil on canvas
Measurements: 50cm x 50cm
Year: 2022
Price: $ 5000 USD
Contact: m.papavassiliou@live.it
Spiritual Nomade Our soul sometimes wanders in search of itself, this can be a tormented journey like the nomadic thirsty and lonely under the relentless sun of the desert. This inner search for ourselves and the direction to take can last a lifetime. The arrwork is set by music by Alessio Miraglia. https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=-8bKiw4cRwJxI4BD&v=JoiUaLW-Jy8&feature=youtu.be
精神游牧 我们的灵魂有时会为寻找自我而徘徊，这可能是一段煎熬的旅程，就像游牧民族在沙漠无情的阳光下干渴而孤独。这种对自我和方向的内在探索可能会持续一生。作品由阿莱西奥-米拉利亚（Alessio Miraglia）配乐
Title: "The Metaverse Thinks"
Materials: oil on canvas
Measurements: 20cm x 20cm
Year: 2023
Price: $ 2000 USD
Contact: m.papavassiliou@live.it
The artwork is inspired by Shanghai Art Fair and represents the artist's quest to represent the third dimension through a cloneable humanity in which the virtual world mirrors the real world with its new space-time horizonshttps://www.instagram.com/reel/Cza8pMOMSil/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
The metaverse thinks 2023 布面油画 20x20cm 奖金 2000 美元 这件作品的灵感来自上海艺术博览会，代表了艺术家对通过可克隆人类表现第三维度的追求，在这个虚拟世界中，新的时空视野反映了现实世界。
Title: "Clonable Mind"
Materials: oil on canvas
Measurements: 40cm x 50cm
Year: 2022
Price: $ 5000 USD
Contact: m.papavassiliou@live.it
This work is part of a series dedicated to the cloning of the human mind. Clonable Identity has been included in the Permanent Collection of the Ca Pesaro Museum in Venice, Italy.
Clonable Identity is set by music by italian composer and pianist Ale Rapisardi Clonable Identity》由意大利作曲家兼钢琴家 Ale Rapisardi https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2sseQvs5hG/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== 配乐。
Clonable Mind 2022 布面油画 40x50cm 奖金 5000 美元 这幅作品是克隆人类思维系列的一部分。可克隆的身份》已被意大利威尼斯卡佩萨罗博物馆永久收藏。