Polys Peslikas

Paintings and Drawings

Opening Thursday 16th April 2026

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CASSIUS&Co. presents Polys Peslikas: Paintings and Drawings, opening at 63 Kinnerton Street, London, SW1X 8ED on Thursday 16th April.

This exhibition marks a return to the new at CASSIUS&Co., it being the first in a series of exhibitions dedicated to the art of today. Polys Peslikas: Paintings and Drawings has taken a year, a year of conversations, making, studio visits, gallery visits, more conversations, more making. 

Everyone carries a museum in their head, a collection of images of all the works of art they have ever seen, in life or online, in books, magazines and movies. Polys Peslikas also has a physical museum, a library of images that he has been cutting out of books, magazines and newspapers since 1986, stored and arranged in stacks of archival boxes in his studio. He often gathers multiple reproductions of the same work, curious about how an image shifts across different inks and papers. And when he paints, he makes many iterations of the same composition, the same figure, with different palettes, surfaces and scales. 

Books from the artist’s personal library will be shown alongside the works, with particular emphasis on Yiannis Tsarouchis and his circle, whose work has played an important role in shaping Peslikas’ practice. 

‘My desire is local,’ the artist has said, and for all the images in his studio’s archive, the paintings and drawings in this exhibition each carry a presence that comes from inside the artist, the light and atmospheres of his memory, an inner museum that can not be stored in boxes.

Polys Peslikas (b. 1973, Cyprus), lives and works in London. He has presented solo exhibitions at Vistamare, Milan and Pescara, Arch Athens, Athens, MINT, Stockholm, Mackintosh Lane, London, Radio Athènes, Athens, ICA Milano, Milan and Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, and has participated in group exhibitions at 11 Parthenon, Nicosia, Villa Medici, Rome, and Felix Gaudlitz, Vienna, among others. In 2017 he represented Cyprus at the 57th Venice Biennale.