Chris Retsina: Oh No! I'm Out of Fashion

Chris Retsina invests the Ptolemy gallery from March 20 to April 12, 2026, with a series of twenty striking self-portraits. The Greek-American artist, marked by a journey from urban violence to radical introspection, delivers here a raw acrylic painting. His faces fragment into contradictory masks, oscillating between strained smiles and cold rages on abyssal black backgrounds. Influenced by the punk aesthetic and the organic power of Francis Bacon, his canvases saturate the space with blood reds and acidic yellows. Beyond form, this work interrogates the erosion of our identity in the age of ephemeral avatars. A wall of intimate texts accompanies these portraits, transforming the space into a secular confessional where individual anguish becomes a mirror for an entire generation. An intense visual experience that refuses artifice to prioritize uncompromised authenticity.