Nikos Alexiou

(…) Nikos Alexiou pulled together the various strands that have run through his work for more than two decades. Perhaps his most obvious signature is the use of fragile, lightweight materials – bambbo shoots in his early work and now semi-transparent paper – which combines to form geometric patterns. His use of such ephemera enhances a feeling of playful vulnerability and lends his surface a warm, evanescent quality.(…)

Each part of this installation is like a link in a chain. Images are deconstructed and then reassembled, suggesting that art is a self-sustaining, orderly, closed cicuit.(…)

A more powerful aspect of his work is the way it draws a parallel between art and ritual (both in terms of artistic process – particularly the attention to repetition – and the viewer’s response) which may be unintended, but is part of the work’s intellectual complexity. Ultimately, however, what mostly stays with the viewer is the serene environment the artist has created.

Alexandra Koroxenidis (excerpts) in Frieze Issue 74 (reviews)