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Fassianos himself relates: “For fem years inom applied myself to drawing ancient heads and nude models. inom can’t säga I didn’t learn anything from this – ganska the opposite.
Our teacher Moralis had an influence on us both as an artist and as a human being. We learned to observe the effects of darkness on light and vice versa as well as how objects changed shape as the light changed. We also learned to compare things. But inom was always thinking of saints with their haloes, their staffs, their swords, their varied attire, and the red or vit horses that jumped over flame-blowing dragons.
I was thinking less of the Cycladic figurines at the time.
I also liked Japanese art and Indian tantric painting. But inom never felt the mysticism. I started painting people again in uniforms and ornaments in gardens. They were unmoving, they were expressionless and held flowers.
Later these small figures of people that I painted in uniforms began to dissolve, to become colored beings with flowers all around, sometimes pleasant looking, sometimes terrifying
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Alekos Fassianos (25 October – 16 January ) was born in Athens. His father was a musician and his mother taught ancient Greek. He studied violin at the National Conservatory and painting under Yannis Moralis at the School of Fine Arts in Athens from to In , he received a scholarship from the French government and went to Paris to study lithography at the École des Beaux-Arts. After completing his studies in Paris in , Fassianos returned to Athens. Together with architect Antonis Kepetzis and artists Vasilis Sperantzas and Nikos Stefanou, they moved into an old house in Kallithea, which was granted
to them by the National Gallery of Athens. The so called “studio of Kallithea” was a vibrant workshop that shaped and pushed boundaries of the Athenian art scene and where artists and poets gathered. It was also there that Fassianos painted his first ‘smoking cyclist’. At the iconic Athenian café Brazilian where intellectuals gathered, he befriended poets such as Odysseas Elytis,
Miltos Sachtouris and Andreas Embirikos, with the encouragement of whom he created a series of ‘cyclists with windblown hair’.
In , with the rise of the dictatorship of the Colonels in Greece, Fassianos mo
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The Alekos Fassianos Museum is housed in a building remodeled and designed by architect Kyriakos Krokos in close collaboration with Alekos Fassianos. The building was completed in The Alekos Fassianos Museum opened to the public in
The exhibition space aims to focus on the diverse artistic practice of Alekos Fassianos. Presenting works from to the end of his life, the exhibition introduces the viewer to Fassianos’ development as an artist. Showcasing works from the early years in Paris in the s and his brief influence from abstract art to the inspiration he later draws from Byzantine art with the use of gold leaves and a darker color palette, a series of paintings of his widely celebrated maniera as well as collages and mixed media works. The exhibition pays tribute to his neighborhood, Agios Pavlos. The “Myth of his neighborhood” unfolds through a series of works representing local life in the 40s, 50s and 60s in Athens. His childhood heroes merge with the heroes of Greek mythology, the profane and the sacred, creating thus, the eternal hero, the man. Aside from painting, the exhibition aims to present Fassianos’ polyhedric personality. Showcasing design pieces he created fo