BIO
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Greek artist born in Arta.
He is part of a generation of contemporary artists who have never stopped defending colour. He continues to believe in the energy of colour and its power to shape our perception of the world. Without hesitation, Tassos throws himself headlong into it.
He creates vibrant abstract paintings, playing with an accumulation of heterogeneous visual signals—composing informal arrangements of lines and colours on the canvas. He explores a rich visual vocabulary that contributes to each composition, including broad strokes, drips, monochromes, tree-like figures, overlays, stains, erasures, dots, and flat surfaces.
These techniques enable him to approach painting and colour as living, autonomous substances that move within his creative space, which he describes as a microcosm. The elements come to life in a chaotic tangle. The gaze may sometimes be lost in areas without a fixed point, yet it is inevitably transported.
At the heart of these eruptions of paint, we witness a constant struggle between the autonomous forms of colour and the artist’s gestures. 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 emerges as a celestial entity—so robust and solid that it absorbs all surrounding energy.
He lives and works in Greece.
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Artiste grec, né à Arta.
Il fait partie d’une génération d’artistes contemporains qui n’ont jamais cessé de défendre la couleur. Il continue de croire profondément en son énergie et en son pouvoir de façonner notre perception du monde. Sans hésiter, Tassos s’y plonge corps et âme.
Il crée des peintures abstraites vibrantes, jouant avec l’accumulation de signaux visuels hétérogènes et composant des agencements informels de lignes et de couleurs sur la toile. Il explore un vocabulaire plastique riche qui nourrit chaque composition : grands gestes, coulures, monochromies, formes arborées, superpositions, taches, effacements, points et surfaces planes.
Ces techniques lui permettent de considérer la peinture et la couleur comme des substances vivantes et autonomes, évoluant dans son espace créatif qu’il décrit comme un microcosme. Les éléments du tableau prennent vie dans un enchevêtrement chaotique. Le regard se perd parfois dans des zones sans point fixe, mais il est toujours emporté ailleurs.
Au cœur de ces explosions de peinture, on assiste à une lutte permanente entre les formes autonomes et le geste de l’artiste. La présence imposante de la toile dissout les corps créés par le mouvement de la ligne. Dans cette chorégraphie sauvage, la ligne perd parfois son élan. De cette rencontre tumultueuse, la couleur émerge comme une entité céleste, si dense et solide qu’elle absorbe toute l’énergie environnante.
Il vit et travaille en Grèce.
Education
2008 - 2009
2004 - 2010
Exhibitions
2025
2014-2024
2013
2012
2011
2010-2005
"The Alchemy of Encounters" group exhibition at Cycladic Arts, Alyki Paros, Greece
"Futures Archaeology" group exhibition in two places, Aristi Mountain resort, Aristi,
and 3Portes Gallery, Ioannina, Greece
"Un jardin grand comme un grain de moutarde" solo exhibition Gallery 3Portes, Ioannina, Greece
"Wild" Gallery 3Portes, Ioannina, Greece
"Futures Garden" Gallery "3PORTES" & Silversmith museum, Ioannina, Greece
"Archaeology" Gallery "3Portes", Ioannina, Greece
"L'Homme couleur / Ο Έγχρωμος" Gallery 3Portes, Ioannina, Greece
"ITINÉRAIRE" Gallery "3PORTES", Ioannina, Greece
Magic Journey, "elsewhere" / Μαγικό ταξίδι, "αλλαχού" Gallery "7", Athens, Greece
Dipole / Δίπολα Athens Municipal Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
Art Copenhagen. Artspace Switzerland gallery booth012, Copenhagen, Denmark
Images of the sea - Της θάλασσας εικόνες, Hellenic center for marine research and European program Perseus, (ASFA) “Nikos Kessanlis” exhibition venue, Athens
The Right to Freedom of Artistic Expression and Creation, 2min. videos UN special report, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Anna/Dafne - Peripetien 1/2013, Projektraum M54,Basel, Switzerland
Art Pile up 2013, Rheinfelden, Switzerland
1size art show, Artspace Basel, Basel, Switzerland
KETHEA, donation for the support of the therapy center of dependent individuals, group exhibition at Pavlos Vrellis museum of greek history, Ioannina, Greece.
The Suspended Step of the images, Visual approaches to the cinematic world of Theo Angelopoulos, Athens Concert Hall
Odyssey, Solo Exhibition, municipal cultural center “Melina Mercouri”, Athens
Athens Graduating class- ‘09-‘10 Athens School of fine arts “Nikos Kessanlis” exhibition venue.
Kodra 2012 – imagination Photo projection, Kodra camp, Kalamaria, Greece
Under construction - Υπό κατασκευή / Tannery, Athens
Maps1987- Voyages 2012, Technochoros Gallery, Athens
Art-a Topographies, Municipal Gallery “I.Moralis” Arta
En-Tête, Deuxième édition de la semaine des arts , 6b – Paris8, St-Denis
12 Young Visual artists VI municipal cultural center “Melina Mercouri”, Athens
Imagination VII Photo projection, Athens
With lime and sea- Με ασβέστη και θάλασσα, “100 years after the birth of the poet Odysseas Elytis”, The House of Cyprus, Athens
Metropolitan Park as a zone of culture, Olympic Fencing Stadium, Athens
6th Biennale of Schools of Fine Arts, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Athens
APhF:11, (Athens photo festival 2011) photo projection, ASFAlab
Visual artists inspired by the theater, Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA).
A3 Exhibition 2010, Xylino steki, Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA).
Why cinema now? 50th International film festival of Thessaloniki, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Thessaloniki
A3 Exhibition 2009, Xylino steki, Athens School of Fine Arts.
29 Students of Photography, photo projection, Bios - Athens
October, the International month of photo, photography-lab, ASFA
1st international Ex-Libris Triennale of Lefkas, Municipal Cultural center of Lefkas island, Greece