Get to know Anastasios
Anastasios Nyfadopoulos
Anastasios Nyfadopoulos is the recipient of the 2018 global arts Award from Red Line Artworks and a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece. In 2015, at the age of 22, he creates “Crisis”, the first public sculpture addressing the consequences of the socio-economic crisis on humanity. Leading national and international media, including the Associated Press and Xinhua News Agency, report on the artwork. He participates in exhibitions and art fairs in Greece, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Anastasios focuses on humanity, how it is shaped, how it may change and evolve. He embodies in his art the principles of interconnectivity and perpetual change, through the theme, the physical appearance, the materials of choice, and the fabrication process.
Part of his process involves the stretching and loosening of thousands of carbon fibers by hand, creating a dynamic motif that emerges somewhere in its original state while elsewhere transforms into parallel black and white lines. This affects the artwork’s physical appearance, resulting in a continuous motion of the fibers in the perception of the observer, embedding perpetual change. Both carbon, being a common element all living organisms on Earth share, and the way the carbon fibers intertwine in his sculptures to produce synergy, embody interconnectivity.
By reflecting on perpetual change, Anastasios believes that people may realize that no matter the phenomenological permanence of a situation, our attitude towards it is up for change. Through the embodiment of interconnectivity, he hopes to motivate people to think inclusively, to feel part of a superorganism that evolves when we interact and collaborate.
“Love drives me to create the new right now”
“To create big changes we must gamble. The question is how much?”
Public Artwork
Title: “Crisis”, Dimensions: 6,8 x 3,4 x 4 m
Main Materials: Carbon fiber, Glass fiber, Iron
Vouliagmenis Avenue 602A Athens, Greece
Selected Exhibitions
March 2020: Group Exhibition “Retrospectiva” Time of Art Gallery, Kifissia, Greece
November 2019: Group Exhibition “Exposing Violence” Institute of Fine Arts Tsichritzi, Kifissia, Greece
May 2019: Duo Exhibition “Blue like Blue” Time of Art Gallery, Kifissia, Greece
December 2018: Group Exhibition “Mesogeios” Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece
November 2018: Group Exhibition of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece Byzantine Museum of Athens, Greece
October 2018: Group Exhibition “Scenes from the past and the future” Time of Art Gallery, Kifissia, Greece
October 2018: Group Exhibition “Scenes from the past and the future” Time of Art Gallery, Kifissia, Greece
June 2018: Art Athina 2018, Artzone 42 Gallery, Greece
June 2017: “Refuge: in search of safety” Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2017 (Juried), Bath, United Kingdom
December 2016: Solo Exhibition “Blue. It is not from around here” Artower Agora Gallery, Athens, Greece
December 2017: Group Exhibition “Regard” by Feral Horses, London, United Kingdom
Award
2018 Annual Global Arts Awards, Redline Artworks, United Kingdom
