The Blender Gallery presents the new solo exhibition of Konstantinos Patsios entitled 'My father had a big nose', Objects and toys from an aggressive childhood, curated by Christina Dougeropoulou.

In his new solo exhibition, the artist forms a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art that includes wall works, sculptures, videos and NFTs. Patsios enriches the painting process with the techniques of collage and decollage, creating a palimpsest of symbols and images that connect the adult world with the child's, the microcosm with the collective unconscious. In his sculptures, complex ready mades, a sarcastic mood dominates, sometimes autobiographical, describing the relationship with the natural but also with the heavenly father.

Patsios' collages are diaries of everyday life, but also of another, internal, unexperienced one. Newspapers, posters, tickets, old photos, turn into something new. Following his need to connect with the great tradition of painting, he succeeds in marrying incompatible images and inviting the viewer into a strange, socio-political association. The aim of his work, as the artist himself states, is the transformation of an image, in which all the conflicting and inappropriate parts of the human condition will harmoniously coexist.

Konstantinos Patsios was born in Athens in 1977. He studied Economics at the University of Piraeus and at the Grande École de Commerce de Poitiers in France. He received a scholarship to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Providence, U.S.A. He then studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts with G. Psychopaidis and M. Spiliopoulos, and Sculpture with N. Tranos. He has held seventeen individual exhibitions in Greece and abroad and has participated in numerous group exhibitions.
At the same time, the project - a 100% silk scarf, of the artist's collaboration with the Greek brand Mantility, specially designed for his solo exhibition - will be presented.