Cigarettes & Kiwi Dreams, 87 x 110 cm, oil on aluminium
The new exhibition by George Sampsonidis represents a multi-layered visual universe where painting, digital collage, and video coexist in constant dialogue. Through an anarchic yet carefully staged coexistence of elements from pop culture, surrealism, religious and mythological iconography, as well as vintage aesthetics, the artist creates works that function as a scroll through the unconscious of mass culture.
Mirage, 45 x 35 cm, oil on aluminium
Sampsonidis’ works appear to be overloaded with aesthetic information—layers of digital processing, stark contrasts between the classical and the contemporary, archetypal symbols interwoven in environments that are both suggestive and bizarre. The painting surface seems to expand digitally, while the videos act as moving paintings. Together, they form an audiovisual universe where identity is not singular, but multiple, fragile, and fluid—just like in our current era.
Mythoscape, 110 x 87 cm, oil on aluminium
Sampsonidis draws themes and forms from the language of advertising, cinema, Instagram, high fashion, and the history of art—not to replicate them, but to reconstruct, clash, and highlight them as mirrors of today’s identity, fragmented and constantly evolving. Irony, deconstruction, and an underlying melancholy are present in every intervention. Behind the spectacle lies an anxiety: the search for authenticity in a world saturated with images.
Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The Future, 170 x 112.50 x 7 cm, mixed media (oil on aluminium, LED display, plexiglass, LED, LCD monitor)
This exhibition does not ask the viewer to “understand”: it invites them to feel, to be swept away, to lose themselves, and perhaps—if they allow it—to recognize themselves in the digital reflection of the works. George Sampsonidis does not offer static answers: he creates moving landscapes where every glance reveals a new potential interpretation.
Palmrose, 87 x 110 cm, oil on aluminium
In an era where the image has become the dominant means of communication, Sampsonidis uses the tools of the time to transcend the surface and reach the essence. His works function as “living archives” of contemporary psychology, highlighting the vanity, admiration, spirituality, and irony that coexist in today’s experience. The artist acts as an alchemist of the image: he combines painting, digital media, and video into works that resemble digital dreams with analog memories. Like a collage of a collective unconscious projected in high resolution.
SO, 170 x 112.50 x 7 cm, mixed media (oil on aluminium, LED display, plexiglass, LED, LCD monitor)
What's in Your Wallet, 170 x 112.50 x 7 cm, mixed media (oil on aluminium, LED display, plexiglass, LED, LCD monitor)
Which way is Tokyo, 170 x 112.50 x 7 cm, mixed media (oil on aluminium, LED display, plexiglass, LED, LCD monitor)
