Alekos Fassianos
Alekos Fassianos (Greek: Αλέκος Φασιανός, born in 1935) is a contemporary Greek painter born in Athens in 1935.[1][2][3]
Alekos Fassianos | |
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Born | 13 December 1935 |
Nationality | Greek |
Education | Athens School of Fine Arts, Paris School of Fine Arts |
Known for | Painting, drawing, lithograph |
Notable work | The Messenger (1981) Adam & Eve (2000) |
Work
Alekos Fassianos was born in Athens in 1935. After graduating from the Athens Academy of Fine Arts, he moved to Paris in 1960 to study lithography at the Paris National School of Arts, where he met with several artists and writers.
Fassianos used to design the stage decorations for major classic and modern productions. His art has been exhibited in museums and galleries including in Athens, Paris and throughout Europe, as well as in Tokyo, New York, Sao Paulo and Melbourne.
In addition to private collections, his art works can be found in the following museums in France: the Paris Museum of Modern Art; the MAEGHT Foundation, San Paul de Vence; Center for Contemporary Art
The artist presently lives and works in Athens.
Honours
- 1985: Chevalier in the Order of Arts & Letters (honored by Minister Jack Lang).
- 2010: Officer in the Order of Arts & Letters (honored by Minister Frederic Mitterrand)
- 2013: Officer in the Honorary Legion (honored by the President of the French Republic, General Georgelin)
- 2009: Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts
He is also a Member of the Fine Arts Academy of Athens.
Collection and exhibition history
Public and private collections
France
- National Centre for Visual Arts (CNAP)
- Paris' Museum of Modern Art (MAM Paris)
- Mobilier National[4] Museum, Paris
- Maeght Foundation,[5] Saint Paul de Vence
- Villa Tamaris Art Center, La Seyne Sur Mer
- Paul Valéry Museum, Sète
- Center of engraving and printed image, La Louvière
- Museum of Grenoble, Grenoble
Greece
- National Art Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens
- Benaki museum, Athens
- Cycladic Art Museum, Athens
- Frissiras Museum,[6] Athens
- Theocharakis Foundation,[7] Athens
- American College of Greece (ACG Art), Athens
- Hellenic Olympic Committee,[8] Athens
- European Culture Centre of Delphi, Delphi
- Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil, Sparta
- Macedonian Museum of Modern Art (MMMA), Thessaloniki
- Averoff Museum,[9] Metsovo
- Museum of Contemporary Art Andros,[10] Andros
- Municipality of Rhodes Modern Greek Art Museum, Rhodes
- Nikos Kazantzakis Museum,[11] Crete
- Historical Archive - Museum of Hydra (I.A.M.Y),[12] Hydra
- Nicosia Municipal Art Center (NiMAC), Nicosia, Cyprus
- Pierides Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
Worldwide
Solo shows
1990's
- 1991 Galerie Zoumboulakis, Athens, Greece
- 1991 Galerie La Hune - Brenner, Paris, France
- 1992 SAGA, Grand Palais, Galerie La Hunne - Brenner, Paris, France
- 1992 Galerie Grafika Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 1992 Galerie Zoumboulakis, Athens, Greece
- 1992 Galerie Origrafica, Malmö, Sweden
- 1993 Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France
- 1993 Macedonian Museum of Modern Art (MMMA), Retrospective, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 1993 Galerie La Hune - Brenner, Paris, France
- 1994 Galerie Origrafica, Malmö, Sweden
- 1995 Galerie La Hune - Brenner, Paris, France
- 1996 Galerie Pudelco, Bonn, Germany
- 1996 Kunstkabinett Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- 1996 Jaski Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 1997 Paul Valery Museum & Nikos Kazantakis Museum (Twinning), Sète, France
- 1997 Galerie Grafika Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- 1998 European Culture Center of Delphi, Retrospective, Delphi, Greece
- 1998 Galerie Rachlin-Lemarié, Angels and Loves,[15] Paris, France
- 1999 Paul Valery Museum, Sète, France
- 1999 NIKAF art fair, Galerie Futura, Tokyo, Japan
2000's
- 2000 Art Miami, Galerie Futura, Miami, Usa
- 2000 Galerie La Hune - Brenner, Paris, France
- 2000 Galerie Rachlin-Lemarié, Daily Mythology, Paris, France
- 2000 Villa Kerylos, Daily Mythology, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France
- 2000 Galerie Bixio 2, Milan, Italy
- 2001 Hellenic Foundation for Culture, New York, Usa
- 2001 Château de Chenonceau, Le Mythe à bicyclette, Chenonceau, France
- 2002 Museum of Cycladic Art, The winners, Athens, Greece
- 2003 Hellenic Foundation for Culture, London, United-Kingdom
- 2003 Galerie Zannettacci, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2003 Galerie La Hune - Brenner, Les Travaux Des Dieux, Paris, France
- 2003 Galerie Grafika Tokyo,[16] Tokyo, Japan
- 2004 Benaki Museum, Travaux, mythes, Eros,[17] Athens, Greece
- 2004 National Art Gallery, A. Soutzos Museum, Everyday Mythologies,[18] Athens, Greece
- 2004 Galerie Grafika Tokyo,[16] Tokyo, Japan
- 2005 Tem Sanat Galerisi, Alecos Fassianos,[19] Istanbul, Turkey
- 2005 Galerie Zannettacci, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2007 Galerie Potnia Thiron, L'éternel Retour,[20] Athens, Greece
- 2007 Galerie Schneider, Munich, Germany
- 2008 Galerie Di Meo, Eroticon,[21] Paris, France
- 2008 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
- 2008 Galerie Potnia Thiron, Tout ce qu'il nous reste,[22] Athens, Greece
- 2009 Galerie Helenbeck, Soft Mythology,[23] Nice, France
- 2009 Galerie Zannettacci, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2009 Municipality of Rhodes Modern Greek Art Museum, Fassianos - 45 Years Of Creation,[24] Rhodes, Greece
2010's
- 2010 Galerie Grafika Tokyo, The Aegean Breeze,[16] Tokyo, Japan
- 2010 Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Recovery of happiness,[25] Paris, France
- 2010 Galerie Thierry Salvador, Memories,[26] Brussels, Belgium
- 2011 Opera Gallery, Fassianos,[27] London, United Kingdom
- 2011 Villa Tamaris Art center, Memories,[28] La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
- 2011 Galerie Herrmann, Fassianos,[29] Berlin, Germany
- 2011 Pavlos Kountouriotis Mansion, Fassianos: Giorgos Economopoulos Collection,[24] Hydra, Grèce
- 2011 Tem Sanat Galerisi, Fassianos,[30] Istambul, Turkey
- 2011 Hellenic Museum, Fassianos, Ancient myth - Modern situations[31], Melbourne, Australia
- 2012 Galerie Di Meo, Fassianos, The light rediscovered,[32] Paris, France
- 2012 Galerie Estades, Fassianos,[33] Lyon, France
- 2012 Abbaye-école de Sorèze, Alecos Fassianos et sa muse Gudrun Von Leitner,[34] Sorèze, France
- 2012 Grosvenor Gallery, Everyday myths,[35] London, United Kingdom
- 2014 Galerie Zannettacci, Fassianos,[36] Geneva, Switzerland
- 2014 Galerie Française - Gérard Schneider, Fassianos,[24] Munich, Germany
- 2014 Espace Paul-et-André-Vera, Fassianos,[37] Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
- 2015 Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Alekos Fassianos,[38] Mykonos, Greece
- 2016 Museum of History and religion, Ancient Greek Myths in everyday life,[39] Saint-Petersburg, Russia
- 2016 Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Apocalypse,[40] Patmos, Greece
- 2016 Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Fassianos - joie de vivre,[41] Paris, France
- 2017 Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Alekos Fassianos,[41] Athens, Greece
- 2018 Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Fassianos,[42] Paris, France
- 2018 Iris Gallery, Small works, Athens, Greece
- 2018 Historical Archive - Museum of Hydra (I.A.M.Y), Fassianos in France,[43] Hydra, Greece
- 2019 Galerie Estades, Alecos Fassianos,[44] Paris, France
Group exhibitions
- 1963 Pantechnicon, San Francisco
- 1965 SWEA, Stockholm
- 1968 Biennale of Menton
- 1982 Palais des Congrès : Europalia with Caras, Christoforou, Gaïtis & Alkis Pierrakos, Brussels, Belgium
- 2000 Kunstkabinett Regensburg, Contemporary Drawings and Sculptures, Regensburg, Germany
- 2009 Opera Gallery, Fassianos - Timur D'Vatz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- 2011 Galerie Pascal Polar, The Figurative Art of Greek Artists, Brussels, Belgium
- 2012 Musée du verre et de ses métiers, Daum - Art, luxury & crystal, Dordives, France
- 2012 Opera Gallery, A Century of Nudes, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2013 Villa Tamaris Art Center, Retrospective, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
- 2014 Galerie Morfi, Group exhibition of Cypriot and Greek artists, Limassol, Cyprus
- 2015 Galerie David Hicks, Fassianos - Oppenheim, Paris, France
- 2016 Opera Gallery, Shades of blue, Monaco, France
- 2016 Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti Gallery, Small Paintings, Athens, Greece
- 2016 Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Genii Loci - Greek Art From 1930 To The Present, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
- 2017 Manoir du Boulanc, Greeks !, Verderonne, France
- 2017 Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Segui – Fassianos, Mykonos, Greece
- 2017 Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti Gallery, Small Paintings, Athens, Greece
- 2018 Paul Valéry Museum, Painting and Poetry, Sète, France
- 2018 Moca Skopje, The Greek Collection, Skopje, Macedonia
- 2018 Maeght Foundation, The Spirit of a Collection : Gifts, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
- 2019 Roma Gallery, Alekos Fassianos - Dimitris Mytaras, Athens, Greece
- 2019 Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti Gallery, A Beach in the City, Athens, Greece
- 2019 Theocharakis Foundation, Alekos Fassianos, Vangelis Chronis – 30 Years of Friendship, Paintings and Poetry, Athens, Greece
See also
- Art in modern Greece
- National Gallery of Greece
- Contemporary Greek Art
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