Artist’s CV
Artist’s Curriculum Vitae
Alekos Fassianos was born in Athens in 1935 and is a Greek painter.
He studied violin at the Athens Conservatory and painting at the School of Fine Arts (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.
Fassianos was also involved in engraving, poster design, and set design, collaborating mainly with the National Theater. 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.
Fassianos’ characteristic style is formed in the early 60’s. Three basic themes remained unchanged during his course: man, nature, environment. His study of Greek culture and his involvement with graphic arts and engraving also influenced his painting. His first compositions are dominated by the figure of the officer with the inflatable, red cheeks, the fancy chevrons in the uniform and the cartoonishly evocative style. Gradually the forms move and acquire their own life. They become pairs that fill the space as soon as they touch each other, while remaining united in design in a mass.
