Lot 30

Technique: Mixed media silkscreen on paper attached on canvas
Ed: 5/18
Published in Alecos Fassianos
Signed: Lower left
Exclusively created for Kapopoulos Fine Arts

Alekos Fassianos 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.