Lot 40

Technique: Hand-painted silkscreen with gold leaves
Ed: 13/50 | Last available
Dated: 2002
Signed: Upper left

“ALEKOS FASSIANOS (1935 – ) is one of Greece’s most popular contemporary visual artists. He was born on 25 October 1935 in Athens, Greece. He trained in music but majored in painting at the School of Fine Arts of the National Technical University of Athens – NTUA (1956-1960), Yannis Moralis serving as his chief instructor. In 1960 he gained a scholarship from the French government to study for three years the art of lithography at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the guidance of Ε. Clairin and G. Dayez. At first and for a very brief period, during which he was influenced by the abstract art (1957-1958), Fassianos adopted a very personal style, which now serves faithfully figurative painting. Already in the 60s he formed a specific subject matter, purely anthropocentric, which in the works where human is absent is implied. The specific subject over the years revolved, slowly, into a maximum visual treatise on everyday life.”