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Gilbert and George Painting by Thanassis Lalas at Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti Gallery

Lalas Thanassis

Code:
Ζ45-20

Title:
Gilbert and George

Dimensions:
100 × 120 cm

Material

acrylic on canvas

Description:

Year created: 2017
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Thanassis Lalas, a man of many interests and wide artistic talent, has dedicated his life to Art, for the past 19 years. After a notable carrier as a journalist and progressive publisher, he has now chosen painting as a path to the creation of an innovative, pictorial language, which has been the result, not only of his studious interest in masterpieces, exhibited in museums around the world, but also of his close, personal contact with renowned personalities of the art world. Placing the human being in the center of his work, he uses poetic surrealism to create a unique imagery of a fantasy world.

Lalas, through his visual art, which in many instances integrates writing as well, recounts the inner processes and diverse realities of human existence. Placing emphasis οn clear lines, he creates flat-colored surfaces, using black outlines to give us grotesque figures with waving movement and chromatic intensity, presented on large or small canvasses, on his characteristic sculptures, on restaurant tablecloths, doors, walls or any other utility object. His unique compositions are full of passion, fantasy, exuberance, irony and humor. To him, genuineness of expression is the highest artistic goal, since: “When you do things passionately and with soul, you create culture”.

Thanassis Lalas was born in Athens, in 19… and he is currently spending his time between Athens, Paris and Miami. He has studied Economics at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and he has worked as a journalist for the most prestigious newspapers and magazines, having taken 3.500 interviews of great public figures. He is also the creator of 33 innovative and very successful magazines. In 2003, he was awarded the “Alekos Lidorikis Award” of the University of Athens, for his journalistic contribution.

He has presented his work in many individual and collective exhibitions, in Greece, as well as abroad. Many of his creations can be found in public and private collections.

 

Art can transform nothing into something, time into eternity and Man on this earth, into a bird with feathers flying in the sky…    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    T.L.

 

Individual Exhibitions

2003         Pierides Museum, Ancient Cypriot Art, Athinais, Athens. Thanassis Lalas’ visual insight

2005         OMICRON Gallery, Nicosia. Thanassis Lalas’ visual insight

2010         Timeless Art Museum, Athinais Cultural Center, Athens. Production: “The Liberal – Pierides Museum” My world.

2013         Opera Gallery, Paris

2013         Artion Gallery, Thessaloniki. Lala’s choices

2013         Nest Gallery, Geneva. Thanassis Lalas Un monde énigmatique

2014         Artion Gallery, Thessaloniki. A celebration of colors

2014         Skoufa Gallery, Athens. Table Art

2015         Alpha C.K. Art Gallery, Nicosia. An island in a sea of colors.

Hellenic American Union, Athens video art

Participation in Art Basel, Miami, 2015

 

Collective Exhibitions

Patras

Frissiras Museum, Athens

2014         Artion Gallery, Thessaloniki. ΑRT-fleur-t”

2015         Artion Gallery, Thessaloniki. Art Bazaar

 

Public and Private Collections

National Gallery

DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art

Dakis Ioannou Collection

Demetrios Kopelousos Collection

Theo Roussis Collection

Collaboration with David Bernimon Fine Art, Miami

You have your own certain style. This is something you find by not pressuring yourself. When I first showed my sketches, they told me that there is a distinct character to them, that they have their own identity. I do not know how to tell you what is happening in the dark paths of ourselves, but that’s where all this comes from. It is a human form that I invented to express the basic message I wanted to say. That we are living in a time where we have turned our backs to all our senses. While we see, we do not see, while we hear we do not listen and while we touch we do not feel. I wanted to create a special species that are much more internal. This is why you see the bodies are created as labyrinths, they have dead ends, they have corridors and they have spikes. It’s all that happens within us and the body is one thing that perhaps conceals the whole world of every human being. Through these paintings I try to show that within us is the world and not outside. With our inside we operate in our everyday life, in reality. Our reality is the participation of thousands of inner worlds. All this, came through as form. Forms that are corrupted because they actually create bulges in the main centers of our feeling. You can see that the hands are large, the ears are big and there is one eye. So the message is that the senses are coming back. We have to see things again, we have to listen to things again, listen with our ears. Source: reporter.com.cy
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