Zoumboulakis Galleries presents the work of Nikos Alexiou from the series Kalamenia.

In 1986, Alexiou started ‘weaving’ with reeds ‘immaterial’ constructions. No door or wall is ‘closed’, and in this way ‘hovering spaces’ are formed. These empty frameworks, which do not represent ruins, leave us wondering about the method that we can use in order to identify with this spectacle of transparency and void. The works of the series are representative of Alexiou’s experimentation with plain architectural forms.

By positioning anonymous architecture and the Mediterranean landscape as his central inspiration, and specifically that of Crete, his birthplace, Alexiou developed a fertile dialogue with the work of iconic Greek and international creators (Aris Konstadinidis, Zisimos Lorentzatos, Nikos Kessanlis, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Samuel Beckett, Stanley Kubrick, Bernard Rudofsky, Vasily Grigorovich Barsky). Alexiou’s work is the result of his traveling, visiting, and roaming – metaphorically as well as literally – on the footsteps of these creators.