Roma Gallery presents the solo exhibition of Nikos Viskadourakis titled The mirror of mr. Hyde, curated by art historian Professor Manos Stefanidis, from November 18 to December 13, 2025.

The exhibition brings together a selection of paintings from different periods and series, in which the artist explores the relationship between light and shadow, the visible and the latent, through a symbolic dialogue with Mr. Hyde, the negative image of the self, the fissure between being and seeming. Viskadourakis painting grapples with form, depth, and the psychic trace, seeking to restore beauty as a moral and existential demand.

As the curator of the exhibition, Professor Manos Stefanidis, notes, the aim is :

“To return to beauty. The ultimate mirror of the inner sky... But on today’s terms. For the world’s beauty to once again find room within us. And not the obvious kind, but the hidden one. The beauty that lies in shadows and darkness, because it scorns decorative narcissisms. To draw again the images sunken in the dark well. Without fearing their relentless beauty.”

The exhibition includes a careful selection of works from the successful exhibition in Crete The mirror of mr. Hyde (Basilica of Saint Mark, 2025), with references to previous bodies of work such as Limen (French Institute of Berlin, 2014), as well as new works. In this new series, the “mirror” functions as a theoretical and painterly field of reflection on the nature of the image and of the self.

Regarding this, the curator of the exhibition emphasizes:

“Among other things, in these symbolic self-portraits, the painter does not identify with Dr. Jekyll, who represents experimentation and the risk of modernity, but with his negative counterpart — the psychic division, the inability to belong to the future without the clutches of the past, the monstrous and the chthonic opposed to the solar and the sublime.”

For Stefanidis, Viskadourakis’s work proposes a translation of aesthetics into a moral axiom, a return to beauty at any cost, “so that the faltering world might be saved.”