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Anastasios (Tassos) Kaliakatsos is a Greek artist born in Arta.

He is part of a group of contemporary artists who have never given up defending colour. He never stops believing in the energy of colour in our perception of the world. Without hesitation, Tassos throws himself headlong into it! He creates colourful abstract paintings. He plays with the accumulation of heterogeneous visual signals, composing an informal arrangement of lines and colours on the canvas. He explores a rich visual vocabulary that contributes to the composition of a canvas. His work features big strokes, drips, monochromes, tree-like figures, overlays, stains, erasures, dots and flat surfaces. These techniques enable him to view painting and colour as living, autonomous substances that move within his creative space, which he describes as a microcosm. The elements of the painting come to life in a chaotic tangle. The gaze is sometimes lost in areas without a fixed point, yet is nevertheless transported. At the heart of the areas where the paint explodes, we witness a battle between the artist's autonomous forms of colour and gesture. The presence of an imposing painting dissolves the bodies created by the movement of the line. In this wild choreography, the line sometimes loses its momentum. From this tumultuous encounter, colour becomes a celestial entity so robust and solid that it absorbs all surrounding energy.

His place of residence and work is Ioannina, but he often travels to Athens and Paris for the purpose of creation.