Costas Picadas

Picadas’ series Mitosis, 2019 comprised of video projections examines the phenomenon of DNA and the transfer of information via cell division. On a broader scale, the series deals with metaphysical issues about the very nature of existence. Picadas explores the relationship between mind and matter in works that surround and embrace the viewer in their soft yet complex environments. In his multi-layered projections the positive and negative space resulting from the depicted branches and blossoms, become metaphors for spirit and matter. These palimpsests simultaneously reference the division and multiplication inherent in the mitosis process, the theme of his series.

His works undulate, as his elements expand and contract, become abstract and slightly representational, more solid or transparent concluding in artworks that metamorphose into multiple phantasmagorical forms. They can be read as flames or as veils, but although their shape may constantly alter and change, Picadas’ allusions to physical matter set against numinous spirituality in this series of works are constants. Picadas’ projections wrap themselves around the installation and molding to the space thus offering us environments in which we can be surrounded by his vi...

Costas Picadas was born in Ioannina Greece. He studied art at the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts and art history at the Louvre School in Paris.

Costas Picadas was born in Ioannina Greece. He studied art at the Ecole Des Beaux-Arts and art history at the Louvre School in Paris. Picadas’ work has been exhibited, among other places, at Queens Museum- Bulova NY, Budman Gallery NY, Denise Bibro Gallery NY, The Blender Gallery Athens Greece, Gallery Gransart Paris, Mykonos Biennale Greece, The Young Art Fair in Switzerland, Gallery J&J Donguy Paris, Some Young New Yorkers III at PS1 NY, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece, Gallery de Buci Paris, Gallery Anatole Chartres, France, 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 catalogues 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. Since 1994 he has been living and working in New York City.