Costas Picadas
ABOUT ARTIST
Costas Picadas (b. 1966, Greece) graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with a degree in painting and studied art history at the Ecole du Louvre.
He is a bio-inspired photographer, painter, digital, video, and installation artist who seeks to bridge the gap between art and biology in portraying the microcosms we humans all have inside.
Picadas grew up in a family of doctors, which defined his later artistic trajectory. After studying in Paris, he moved to New York to live and work. He specialized in two-dimensional works and videos that address idioms based on nature and science. He is particularly interested in the grandeur of forests and the cell forms associated with immunology, a branch of medicine.
One of his installation series titled ‘Biophilia’ comprises video projections that examine the phenomenon of DNA and the transfer of information via cell division. On a broader scale, the series deals with metaphysical issues about the thievery of existence. He explores the relationship between mind and matter in works that surround and embrace the viewer in their soft, yet complex, environments. The works undulate, as elements expand and contract, becoming abstract and slightly representational, more solid or transparent, concluding in artworks that metamorphose into multiple forms. Although their shapes may constantly change, its spirituality is a constant.
His works has been shown at Queens Museum- Bulova, NY; Budman Gallery, NY; Denise Bibro Gallery, NY; The Blender Gallery, Athens; Gallery Gransart, Paris; Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos; The Young Art Fair, Switzerland; Gallery J&J Donguy, Paris; Some Young New Yorkers III at PS1, NY; Kappatos Gallery, Athens; Galerie de Buci, Paris; Gallery Anatole, Chartres; Gallery de Nest, Paris; Salon de Montrouge, Paris; W.G. Amsterdam, Holland; and the Festival of Avignon, France.
Articles, reviews, and critical analysis of Picadas’ work appear in solo and group show catalogs, in addition to newspapers and magazines in France, Greece and New York, such as Zing Magazine, Absolute Arts, New York Spaces Magazine and Flash Art.