The "Winners of Life"
The grotesque thick shapes, formed in pastesian colors, will be succeeded in the mid-60's by the shadowy spotted figures, sometimes blue, sometimes red, always golden-yellow in depth. Dense paste color now gives its place a light and shiny dye that evenly covers the painting surface. Fassiano's favorite theme, smoke-loving cyclists, that he paints "all the time" following Andreas Embirikos's story, hurriedly crossed the canvas screen, leaving behind a smoke or waving a colored scarf. Cyclists are often couples and then the girl's long hair is delivered to the wind. Yes, girls and boys are the protagonists of Fassiano's painting, the "winners of life," as he recently named them. Winners, because they have won the eternity of youth within his work. There, in the late 1960's, the theme of the new painter widened to include the erotic lovers. Young couples lying on divans with golden-yellow striped or checkered bedding, seem to have been delivered to a bizarre, meteoric rush. The single red blends the bodies of the lovers into an engagement, emotional and mainly painting. At the same time, Fassianos painted white female figures, often drawn with the back to the viewer, with a pattern that engraves the volume and the third dimension.
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