Wednesday 9 Sept 2020, 6pm AEST join Simon Maidment for a virtual studio visit with Nikos Pantazopoulos via the @ngvmelbourne instagram account.
Dr Nikos Pantazopoulos explores LGBTIQ+ politics through an immigrant CIS GAY LENS his work remediates art history and popular narratives that are influenced by hegemonic culture. Pantazopoulos’s current research is engaged in Ancient Greek legacies and its influences on modernism, minimalism, relational, outsider art activities and on labor and its economic values in our society. Pantazopoulos’s materials critique the classical traditions of the arts to repurpose them through photographic data and a technologically driven lens.