Lot 10

Technique: Acrylic on canvas
Dated: 2003
Title: “Ancient smoker”
Signed: Upper right

Kapopoulos’ exhibitions:
18 July 2015, Patmos Gallery, Exhibition “Moments”
22 April 2017, Golden Hall Gallery, Exhibition “Technicae”
15 July 2017, Mykonos Gallery, ALEKOS FASSIANOS – ANTONIO SEGUI

He was born in the area of Plaka in Athens. He studied violin at the Athens Conservatory and painting at the School of Fine Arts in the period 1956-1960 in the workshop of Giannis Moralis. He studied ancient Greek angiography and Byzantine iconography. He took lithography classes at the École des beaux-arts in Paris, with a scholarship from the French government (1962-1964), close to Clairin and Dayez. In 1966 he settled in Paris, while since 1974 he lives and works in Paris and Athens. Since 1959, the year of his first solo presentation in Athens, he has had more than seventy solo exhibitions in Athens, Thessaloniki, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Hamburg, Zurich, Milan, Beirut, Stockholm, London and elsewhere. He has participated repeatedly in group exhibitions and well-known international events around the world. Fasianos was also involved in engraving, poster design, as well as scenography, collaborating mainly with the National Theater (Kafka’s America directed by Alexis Solomou, 1975, Eleni tou Euripides, 1976, Aristophanes’ Chickens, 1978, etc.) . He undertook the illustration of several books, in Greece and abroad, of well-known poets and authors. He has also published his own texts, short and poetic. For the whole of his work, four films have been made for the Greek and French television, while monographs are published that refer to his artistic production. In 1999 he was a candidate for MEP with PASOK in an honorary (non-elected) position.