Phoenix Athens proudly presents new paintings by Peter Nikoltsos with the exhibition: Spartacae. 

Nikoltsos experiments with complex shades and tones of color interspersed with dark slashes, the latter resembling crosses from the tragic closing chapter of the Spartacist gladiator-led slave rebellion of 73 B.C.E. The vertical and horizontal strokes of color evoke symbolic and historical demarcations: A place where East meets West and the mundane and the esoteric coincide within the unregulated geography of earthly existence. For Nikoltsos, the cross symbolises a personal journey as a Greek-American and serves as an ongoing tribute to the rebellion of people in modern society against slavery and oppression.