Pantazis Nikos Contemporary Art Painter
Drawings and other media
Pencil on paper 149 × 101 × 3 cm (framed) 133 × 85 × 0.2 cm (unframed)
Pencil on paper 149 × 101 × 3 cm (framed) 133 × 85 × 0.2 cm (unframed)
Pencil on paper 114 × 80 × 3 cm (framed) 98 × 64 × 0.2 cm (unframed)
Pencil on paper 38 × 48 × 3 cm (framed) 25 × 35 × 0.2 cm (unframed)
Pencil on paper 48 × 38 × 3 cm (framed) 35 × 25 × 0.2 cm (unframed)
Plastic on paper 63 × 83 × 3 cm (framed) 50 × 70 × 0.2 cm (unframed)
Plastic on paper 63 × 83 × 3 cm (framed) 50 × 70 × 0.2 cm (unframed)
Pencil on paper 48 × 38 × 3 cm (framed) 35 × 25 × 0.2 cm (unframed)
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Hunters and Lailapa
Lailapa or Lailaps was the mechanical predator that Hephaestus created on behalf of Zeus.
Lailapa had the gift of hunting any prey without ever be erroneous. It was donated by his mistress Zeus, Europe, to Minos, and he, in turn, gave it to King Kefalos' wife, Prokris.
According to myth, Kephalos gave Lailapa to King Amphitryon in Thebes to catch a fox that no one could catch. So a hunter who always took its prey chased a prey that could never be caught. When Jupiter realized that the hunt would be endless, he transformed both animals to stones and then turned them into constellations. Lailaps became the Great Kyon and the fox of Teupessus to little Kyon.
The idea of this endless chase, this endless controversy, I use in my painting as a symbol for the constant and repetitive struggle of man for survival, evolution and redemption. Children as hunters as all previous generations repeat History.