Lavdas Apostolos

APOSTOLOS LAVDAS (1940 – ) was born in Piraeus in 1940. He studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1962-1965) in Brussels, and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1965-1966) in Paris. His work mainly consists of human figures, which he renders with an expressionistic mood. He uses a rich color scale, which he handles with directness and spontaneity. He works with thematic units and has a particular preference for dynamic subjects, which include the human figure in motion (compositions with athletes, runners, horsemen, etc.). Creates overlapping color layers with sharp and broad strokes, giving them specific direction and color flow. It avoids the design outline and leads the viewer’s eye to read the subject through color associations. Movement and time are intertwined with the works of Apostolos Lavdas. The painter seems to capture moments of time which he highlights with his inspiration, giving them a leading role.

“The issues of jockeys and runners have concerned me for thirty years,” says Apostolos Lavdas himself. “When I lived in Paris, I used to see from my window a horse-drawn carriage where horsemen started and finished their course. This vital image that was repeated daily impressed itself on my memory and has been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for me ever since.” Apostolos Lavdas presented the first jockeys in Antwerp in 1965, at an exhibition organized by the city’s Educational Center, where he was awarded the first prize. Twelve years later, in 1977, at the International Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Florence, he also won the First prize. A new creative period marks the painterly development of Apostolos Lavdas. It is the time when the artist releases his work from the dependencies of the past.

His return to Greece has been dynamic since 1978 with solo exhibitions that
mark its course. In 1985 the jockeys of Apostolos Lavdas challenge
special feeling in a solo exhibition held with his collaboration
Alexandrou Iola, the international mother of art who supported Lavda’s painting especially in the 1980s and until his death. Lavda’s works then took much more interesting forms revealing a new world of balances, more malleable in terms of construction, more prosperous in visual terms and open to a variety of renewal transformations.

But no matter how much we try to decipher the painting of Apostolos Lavdas, the painter himself has made sure to let the viewer unravel the thread of his personal thought. He insists on the position that he is a “street artist”, a painter in the traditional sense of the term, a “romantic damned” who has escaped the alternating fashions of the system and still enjoys the pleasure of pure painting.

Individual exhibitions

“Astor” 1965, 1976, 1978. Goethe Institute, Thessaloniki 1967, 1976, 1978

Goethe Institute, Thessaloniki 1967, 1976.« Brachot, Brussels, 1970.

“Full Moon” Thessaloniki 1982, 1984, 1986. “Skoufa” 1985, 1988

.«Opus 39» Nicosia 1989. «Ekfrasi», 1990. «Moiraraki» 1992

Panhellenic 1971, 1973, 1975. “Libra” 1978. “The Third Eye” 1979.

“Dracos” 1987. “House of Cyprus” 198
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