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This summer, Lazarides will host a new series of works by the notorious French artist Zevs, with his solo exhibition: The Big Oil Splash. The artist, otherwise known as Aguirre Schwarz, will present a series of paintings, monochromes and sculpture based on the oil spill thematic.

The paintings presented in The Big Oil Splash are richly imbued with the artist’s critical and anti-authoritarian spirit and are reflective of his graphic vocabulary, love of film noir, misappropriations and his attachment to Pop Art and comics. Full of borrowings, namely from Hockney’s iconic 1967 A Bigger Splash …