Konstantinos Patsios was born in Athens, Greece in 1977. He
graduated with distinction his studies at the Athens School of Fine Arts -
Painting Laboratory in 2007, while he also completed a course at the Rhode
Island School of Design, in Boston. Konstantinos Patsios did six solo shows till
this date and he participated in large variety of group exhibitions both in
Greece and abroad. His last show "The Lost Parthenon" in 2016 at Melkart
Gallery, in Paris was curated by Leonie Gavrias.
'My work is a synthesis of several painting metaphors, from
conceptual art and expressionism to pop art, all delivered in a sense of mockery
and irony and an invitation to critical discourse. Although they may seem naïve
at first sight, I think there is a strong underlying political dimension in my
pictures. I use a variety of expressive media, from painting, sculpture and
photography to large scale installations. Art and especially image have their
own rules: they go beyond paint, brushes and paper, over to constitute a
narrative. Psychoanalysis is not sufficient by itself to interpret an image. A
piece of art provokes aphorisms and coincidences. It may not be in itself a
cause for war, but it will always be a mirror. One of the principles in my work
is the synthesis of non-matching materials, data and the completion of an
unequivocal picture. Another personal obsession has to do with confusion:
sometimes when the narrative is tiring to my viewer, I juxtapose a tangled mess
in order to stop thinking and start seeing!. I would like my work to form a new
field of thinking where all contradictions are resolved and a new type of
harmony governs both the visual and the logic!'