This year, an eminent Greek artist participated in the famous Vienna Opera Ball, which takes place at the end of every carnival period. Nikos Floros presented his work “Corset” in cooperation with model Alexandra Bozits. Last November, Nikos Floros, who uses recycled material from cans with a special technique for most of his works, presented “The Costume of Queen Elizabeth I” in Vienna and impressed the visitors of the exhibition. For 2012 the Greek artist is preparing a series of 12 pieces, themed after the stolen Parthenon Marbles in British Museum, using again recycled material from silver aluminium cans. Nikos Floros was born in 1970 in Tripolis, Arkadia and grew up in Athens. He studied visual arts in Paris and in 1999 he moved to New York where he lives and works. Greece is always one of the places where he presents his great exhibitions. At last night’s Vienna Opera Ball, the event was attended as always, by a lot of people, among them the President of Austria Heinz Fischer and the Chancellor Werner Faymann, their guests, politicians from neighbour countries and more than 5,500 other visitors who participated in the Ball until early next morning.
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