Anatomical Art Exhibition - Phytobiosomes by artist Costas Picadas

6D Living
Jul 12
2 min read

Life keeps surprising me! I was at the hospital the other day (nothing series, routine testing) and found that the hospital was hosting an art exhibition and IT BLEW MY MIND! Costas Picadas' work is fluid, hopeful and playful with delicate details showing us the incredible power of each cell, organ and system in our bodies to create and grow - when nurtured and cared for properly.

CONTACT COSTAS PICADAS • +1 (347) 589-3845 • CPICADAS@GMAIL.COM

"The Phytobiosomes series is inspired by the scientific realities, provoking an experience that is visually and cognitively stimulating but also promotes well being while encouraging mental and physical health. It reminds us that it is beneficial to occasionally divert our gaze from our immediate technological present, where mind and body are separated, and to contemplate their poetic reunion. Picadas’s artworks in which surreal and organic elements converse, highlights the self-generating bi-directional healing cycle of nature, i.e., nature’s Phytobiosomes. Biosomes are self-perpetuating units within the cell that communicate in order to regulate bodily processes."

"As a space, Henry Dunant Hospital is especially suited for Picadas’s anatomical and therapeutic works. Just as hospitals serve as the environment par-excellence of medical healing, so Picadas’s artworks heal the human soul. The hospital – a major comfort zone – constitutes the necessary substratum for the merging of science, art and medicine, in which Picadas’s art functions as a re-introduction of nature."

"Costas Picadas was born in Ioannina. He studied Fine Arts at the École des Beaux-Arts and History of Art at the Louvre School in Paris. He has participated in more than 90 exhibitions internationally. Since 1994 he has lived and worked in New York, seeking to unite art with science."

"Thalia Vrachopoulos (the curator of the show) holds a doctorate in the Philosophy of Art History from the City University of New York Graduate School. She has curated over one hundred national and international exhibitions accompanied by scholarly catalogues. Dr Vrachopoulos is a full time professor of the visual arts at John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York."