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Tasos Kaliakatsos is a Greek artist born in Arta.

He is part of one group of contemporary artists who never gave up on their defense of color, he never stops believing in color energy in our perception of the world. Without complex, Tasos throws himself headlong into it! Creates colorful abstract paintings.  He's playing with the accumulation of heterogeneous visual signals composing an informal way of the canvas space with line and color. Explores a rich visual vocabulary that contributes to the composition of a canvas. Big strokes, drips, monochromes, tree-like figures, overlays, stains, erasures, dots, and flat surfaces. All these ways allow him to consider painting and color as autonomous and living substances which move in his creative space which he describes as a microcosm. The painting elements come to life in a chaotic tangle. The gaze is sometimes lost in front of places without a fixed point, which nevertheless transports you. At the heart of them of the areas where the paint explodes, we witness a battle between autonomous forms of the artist's color and gestures. The presence of an imposing painting dissolves his track's bodies realized by the movement of the line. In a crazy choreography, the line sometimes loses the momentum of being liquidated. From this tumultuous meeting, the color becomes this celestial object so solid and robust that it absorbs all energy surrounding it.

Lives and works Ioannina and Paris.