Mikaya Petros - Italy

ABOUT Mikaya…

Mikaya Petros was born in Milan, Italy, class of 1964, daughter of the surrealist painter Petros. She trained in her father's atelier where she made four- handed photo collages, pictorial and material works. Her encounter in the 1970s with Andy Warhol was incisive. It was in her maternal uncle's production, post-production and computer graphics house that the artist worked from a young age creating digital and video contributions. "Painting for me is like singing in the shower on a sunny day," she says. Through digital experimentation, her art investigates the Surrealist matrix, giving rise to conceptual and formal research with a breath that deepens the boundary between Reality, Time and Symbolism. The subjects of her works, realized through a digital photographic language, live in a contemporary dreamlike dimension. In her creative process Virtual Reality and Temporal Spaces are investigated, decomposed and reassembled in a neo-contemporary vision. This is the mirror and parallel reflection of a world yet to be deciphered.

Her works have been exhibited at the Expo Fiera in Milan, the Biennale BID in Trieste 2021, the Michelangelo Expo Prize in Rome, Arte Laguna World at the Arsenale, the Dante Alighieri Palazzo Borghese Prize in Florence, the Dante Academy in London 2021, the Enchanted Garden Exhibition in Belgium, the Luxemburg Prize, the Tower House in the UK, at XI Esposición Internacional in Valencia in Spain, at 5th Pasa Art Festival in Korea, at Osten Biennale in Macedonia, at Big Screen Plaza and Found Work of Art in NYC in USA , at Art Facts and International Painting Biennale in Hamburg 2022. Her works in the Permanent Collections of Sartori Archive in Mantova, Ca' Pesaro Museum in Venice, Como Landscape Museum , Cica Museum in Korea, The Art Center Dover New Hampshire USA, Maritime of Bordeux in France and the Permanent Collection in the Serpone Foundation in Rome, Mykonos and Syros Museums in Greece and Moca Museum.

Instagram @mikaypetros

Publications:

Archive Art Magazine December 2020 and January 2021. Art Now 2021 March and April. Intsliquid interview May 2021. Cover volume Emily Dickinson Liguori Editore. The ArtGuide 2022. Sartori Catalog 2022. SaatchiArt 2022. Exibart 2022. Artbox Project Catalogue CH 2023 asmburg Biennale Catalogue 2023, Mikaya Petros Catalogue 2023.

I like to place oil painting at the center of my work, a familiar aroma since I grew up among brushes in my father's studio. I draw on the canvas an intermediate space between the before and after, between the saying and the magical silence with long oblique lines, a legacy of my passion for photography I like to experiment with a variety of materials creating what becomes almost an extension of my pictorial discourse in space. I love polychromy and the unusual use of colored pigments on medium and large  canvases. I have an abstract dna and the figurative element tells my contemporaneity. I represent the human cloning of our near future, as in the work entitled Clonable Identity permanently in the Cà Pesaro Museum.

Website: https://artelaguna.world/artist/petros-papavassiliou-mikaya-michela/

Contact: m.papavassiliou@live.it