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Surrealistic DNA in an Abstract Soul
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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 Hamburg
Biennale Catalogue 2023, Mikaya Petros Catalogue 2024 Tribute to Van Gogh 2024 Cica Museum Art Book 2024 Biennale of Venice 2024 Catalogue Madrid Art Station Catalogue 2025
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Statement Mikaya Petros 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 format canvases. I have an abstract dna and the figurative element
tells my contemporaneity. I investigate the virtual world and the life's Enigma. In cold
colors I tell the shadows of my soul and the winds of Mystery. My characters move in
a parallel dimension between mutating forms that narrate the Invisible. I am
fascinated by the digital age and its variations, sometimes I represent the human
cloning of our near future, as in the work entitled Clonable Identity permanently in
the Cà Pesaro Museum in Venice.In warm colours like red and fuchsia, mix alongside
zinc whites and yellows, I describe the palpitations of human beeing.
2025: The exhibition entitled Edges of Infinity brings together a series of 18 large and medium-sized works. It is a tribute to the 3 perfect number as the multiple of the paintings in the exhibition. The central theme is the artistic concept of an imaginary horizon for the Infinite, and it is on this creative line sum of all colors that the intersection of a seemingly infinite series of points that intersect in unexpected chromaticity occurs. Almost on the threshold of this virtual-temporal space the artist depicts himself waiting at the unveiling of the multiverse.
" Her ability to capture the essence of life in the modern world makes her one of the most influential artists of her generation. "Project374 Venice Biennale 2024
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