NICK GOULIS

Glorifying the Common Man 295x230 cm Glass colors on paper 2006

Goulis’ work explores the notion of the painting as means of intuitively reforming his everyday-ness and recollecting nostalgic feeling. Often the material is originated from sci-fi films, computer games and scientific magazine by which he starts a collection of personal experience and a search for his metaphysical identity. In his paintings, the objects are isolated in a background-less space and accompanied with stylish graphic texts. The absence of the surrounding characterises the physicality of the objects and emphasizes oneself as Romantic ‘hero’. The texts seem to come from a monologue when taking a walk alone and indulging in complete solitude.

EDUCATION   2004–06         MA in Fine Art, the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2001                 the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Thessaloniki, Greece SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007         Sorry H8ters!! Athanassiadou Art Advice (AAA), Athens 2006         Nick Goulis, Art Gallery of Ziekenhuis Rijnstate, Arnhem, the Netherlands 2006         I hope I won't die poor, Gallery De Praktijk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2005         Not so famous, Gallery De Praktijk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2006         the Suspicion of Beauty: New Romanticism, BasementArtProject.com Basement Screen, the Residence Gallery, London Rotterdam Art Fair, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2005          Basement Screen, BasementArtProject.com Let me hear your body talk, Arti et Amiticia, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2003            New Balkan Artists, Paradise Hamam, Thessaloniki, organized by the Cultural Olympiad Unimportant, Paraplufabrick gallery, Nijmegen (the Netherlands) Mysteries of New Art, Bossenlomerplein, Amsterdam (the Netherlands) 20 Rooms, Kapatos Gallery, Athens 2002            North West Passages, Kursum Mosque, Trikala, Greece, organised by E.U., Citta di Biella, Fondatione Pistoletto and Anent Co. 2001            Trash Art 3, Techno polis area in Athens, organized by Ozon magazine G.Fokas Studio, Art Forum Gallery, Thessaloniki 2000           Trash Art 2, Techno polis area in Athens, organized by Ozon magazine Laboratorio di Scultura Europea, Molgiano Veneto, Italy organized by Fondatione  Bevilaqua(First Prize)   1998         Heineken Art 5, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki 1997           Heineken Art 4, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki www.lowlifeart.com