Nicolas Panayotou exhibition in Paris during art Basel Paris

Nicolas Panayotou exhibition in Paris during Art Basel Paris Fair, the exhibition is open till the 15th of November 2025. Courtesy hdgalerie.fr.

Through “Remember the Future”, Nicolas Panayotou extends a line of thought initiated on the wall of Paris’ 13th arrondissement, where his namesake kinetic mural engages in a dialogue with the urban environment. The gallery exhibition becomes an inner resonance of this monumental work, unfolding a universe where geometric abstraction, illusion of movement, and the memory of forms intertwine.

Trained at the École du Louvre and later at the Sorbonne, Panayotou is a French-Greek artist whose journey intersects art history with the energy of graffiti. Influenced by Vasarely, Soto, Agam, and Rondinone, he has spent over twenty years exploring the boundaries between painting, optical art, and digital language. His signature technique — the “digital hand” — counters the coldness of pixels with a meticulous, fully hand-crafted gesture, creating hypnotic kaleidoscopic spaces.
Panayotou is part of the kinetic art movement, and his painting seeks to capture the viewer’s eye by inducing perpetual motion within the stillness of the frame. He plays with repeating stripes, subtle gradients, and prismatic structures to generate luminous illusions: levitating spheres, vibrating grids, radiating beams… The effect is visual, but also mental — a dive into a floating dimension where matter seems to fade in favor of pure energy.
The series on view — Cosmic Clock, Pinacotheca, Boogie-Woogie — successively revisit the celestial sphere, ancient geometry, and the modern city. Suspended planets defying gravity, Egyptian pyramids seen from above and recomposed into segmented square patterns, and chromatic tributes to Mondrian all express a desire to forge a link between past and future, between the archaeology of forms and the pulse of the contemporary.
Remember the Future is a temporal and optical journey. Each canvas acts like a capsule: painting in the box, Pinacotheca in the digital age. While the gallery remains a place of grounding, the screen also becomes an exhibition space.
Panayotou does not merely represent movement — he embodies it in the very nature of his process, between material and immaterial, tangible and virtual.
In an era marked by technological acceleration, his work reminds us of the artist’s primary role: to anticipate, transmit, translate. Like a contemporary Pythia, he paints the future with the hands of the past.


The exhibition "Remember the Future" extends the monumental mural created by Nicolas Panayotou in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. This enigmatic title evokes the link between memory, perception, and projection: an invitation to look towards the future through the forms of the past.
 
"Remember the future" is a visual journey: from the tangible to the digital, from the past to tomorrow. A space where painting, light and illusion meet.


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