Nikos Blempoutzakis

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Artwork - Dark Art
He is an artist of dark theme drawings and paintings based in Athens. In "Ornerakis school of applied Arts" 2006-2009 time period (where he studied drawing and animation with scholarship, was awarded with a monetary amount for art participations and distinguished for Illustrations at Benaki Museum) revealed the first signs of his own internal world composed of some strange figures. Ever since he's sinking in charcoal drawing and oil medium painting, mostly creating hateful and disgusting faces, devilish people, animals and creatures. His Artwork is known for the rich collection of deadly portraits and distorted figures usually covered by arteries. Ηow he's dealing so deep with death is also related to the early loss of his loving father and his art influences like H. R. Giger ,Zdzislaw Beksinski ,Eric Lacombe, and Alberto Giacometti which are indicatively his favorite Artists. Inexhaustible imagination and daily sketching of course, are mainly guides. He has in assets two solo exhibitions in Athens and one group so far.
Born and raised in Beloiannisz small village of Hungary, his father was a train maintenance man and his mother a housewife. At the age of six they're relocated to Greece on the law of re...