“Phytobiosomes”: the unique exhibition of the influential artist Costas Picadas opens on Monday, May 19th to bring art and health closer, for a better world with greater hope.
Once, the great artist Leonardo da Vinci made “poetry” by depicting the anatomy of the body, without even having detailed images of our organs at his disposal.
Today, when the image of the body’s organs is more than clear and specific, an artist is called upon to transform this very realism into poetry. This is what Costas Picadas does with sensitivity and originality, with precision and a poetic disposition. And in an exceptional, also poetic way and with kindness of soul and art, the exhibition curator and professor of Visual Arts at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, Thalia Vrachopoulos, undertakes the curation, that is, the oversight of this unique and special exhibition.
Costas Picadas’ works, titled “Organs of the Body – Lungs, Heart or Brain,” present the healing methods of nature itself.
In the artist’s images, new plants emerge from the decomposition of the body’s organs, whose therapeutic medicinal value was known since antiquity. This natural recycling process, in the work of Costas Picadas, is represented through a combination of incorporeal organs and plants. In a way, Costas Picadas proposes his own artistic translation regarding the healing power of nature.
As a space, the Henry Dunant Hospital is particularly suitable for the anatomical and therapeutic works of Costas Picadas. Just as hospitals are the quintessential environment for medical treatment, Picadas’ artworks “heal” the human soul. The hospital is the appropriate place where science, art, and medicine meet nature, the protagonist through the artist’s eyes.
A few words about the artist Costas Picadas and the exhibition
Costas Picadas was born in Ioannina. He studied Fine Arts at the École des Beaux-Arts and Art History at the Louvre School in Paris. 1 He has participated in more than 90 exhibitions internationally. Since 1994, he has lived and worked in New York, seeking to unite art and science.
He has specialized in visual photography and video art, focusing his interest more on bridging the relationship between Science and Art, particularly the Science that concerns the human organism and its vital biological functions, such as the cardiorespiratory, cytological, and immune systems.
According to Costas Picadas, “We live in an era in which many people have become distanced from the natural environment and its beneficial properties that once helped regulate our nervous system. However, during our evolution, when we return to nature, the cohabitation we develop with it returns to our memory and functions automatically.”
Part of the proceeds from the sales of the artworks will be donated to the association “FLOGA Association of Parents of Children with Neoplastic Disease” to support their important work.
