Untitled (part of a diptych), 2024
acrylic and pastel on paper
100 x 70 cm

Untitled,, 2025
acrylic and pastel on paper
100 x 70 cm

Untitled, 2025
acrylic and pastel on paper
100 x 70 cm

Untitled, 2024
acrylic and pastel on paper
100 x 70 cm

Untitled,, 2025
acrylic on canvas
180 x 160 cm

Untitled (part of a triptych), 2024
acrylic and pastel on paper
100 x 70 cm

Untitled (part of a ), 2025
acrylic, charcoal and pastel on paper
100 x 70 cm

Untitled (part of a diptych), 2024
acrylic and pastel on paper
100 x 70 cm

Untitled, 2024
acrylic and pastel on paper
114 x 114 cm

Untitled, 2020-25
acrylic and pastel on paper
100 x 100 cm

Untitled, 2020
acrylic and pastel on paper
100 x 97 cm

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About

Roma Gallery presents the solo exhibition of Nikos Viskadourakis titled “The Mirror of Mr. Hyde”, curated by art historian Professor Manos Stefanidis, from November 18 to December 13, 2025. The exhibition brings together a selection of paintings from different periods and series, in which the artist explores the relationship between light and shadow, the visible and the latent, through a symbolic dialogue with Mr. Hyde, the negative image of the self, the fissure between being and seeming. Viskadourakis painting grapples with form, depth, and the psychic trace, seeking to restore beauty as a moral and existential demand. As the curator of the exhibition, Professor Manos Stefanidis, notes, the aim is :

“To return to beauty. The ultimate mirror of the inner sky… But on today’s terms. For the world’s beauty to once again find room within us. And not the obvious kind, but the hidden one. The beauty that lies in shadows and darkness, because it scorns decorative narcissisms. To draw again the images sunken in the dark well. Without fearing their relentless beauty.”

The exhibition includes a careful selection of works from the successful exhibition in Crete The Mirror of Mr. Hyde (Basilica of Saint Mark, 2025), with references to previous bodies of work such as Limen (French Institute of Berlin, 2014), as well as new works. In this new series, the “mirror” functions as a theoretical and painterly field of reflection on the nature of the image and of the self. Regarding this, the curator of the exhibition emphasizes: “Among other things, in these symbolic self-portraits, the painter does not identify with Dr. Jekyll, who represents experimentation and the risk of modernity, but with his negative counterpart — the psychic division, the inability to belong to the future without the clutches of the past, the monstrous and the chthonic opposed to the solar and the sublime.” For Stefanidis, Viskadourakis’s work proposes a translation of aesthetics into a moral axiom, a return to beauty at any cost, “so that the faltering world might be saved.”

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Artist

Nikos Viskadourakis was born in Heraklion in 1956. He held his first exhibitions at a young age in his hometown (1973, 1976), and later, following the encouragement and recommendation of the Heraklion-born painter Thomas Fanourakis, he left to pursue studies. He attended the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki, in the studio of Teta Makri, studying painting. After graduating, he settled once again in Heraklion. Nikos Viskadourakis has presented his work in solo and group exhibitions in Greece (Athens, Thessaloniki, Preveza, and Crete), as well as in Cyprus, Germany, and Belgium. He has also participated in international events, such as Art Athina 6 ’98 in Athens in 1998 and MiArt 2000 in Milan, Italy, in 2000. He is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece (EETE).

Installation Shots

Roma Gallery presents the solo exhibition of Nikos Viskadourakis titled “The Mirror of Mr. Hyde”, curated by art historian Professor Manos Stefanidis, from November 18 to December 13, 2025. The exhibition brings together a selection of paintings from different periods and series, in which the artist explores the relationship between light and shadow, the visible and the latent, through a symbolic dialogue with Mr. Hyde, the negative image of the self, the fissure between being and seeming. Viskadourakis painting grapples with form, depth, and the psychic trace, seeking to restore beauty as a moral and existential demand….