His exhibition “Yesterday is now. Giorgos Lazogkas: Myths and Antiquity” is presented these days in the periodical exhibition hall at the National Archaeological Museum.
He breathed his last George Lazogkas at the age of 77 after a long battle with cancer.
His exhibition “Yesterday is now. Giorgos Lazogkas: Myths and Antiquity” is presented these days in the periodical exhibition hall at National Archaeological Museum.
Giorgos Lazogkas was born in Larissa in 1945. He studied architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1963-1970), but eventually devoted himself to painting. In 1970 he was awarded in the competition of young painters of the Goethe Institute of Thessaloniki and in 1972 he won the 1st prize in the competition of young painters of the Hellenic-American Union.
He presented his first solo exhibition in Thessaloniki (1975, Zeta-Mi) and, the following year, he left with a scholarship from the French state to study painting in Paris. He met Alexandros Iolas and became familiar with contemporary artistic currents.
From his first works he showed that he was interested in the development of drawing as writing, with a figurative or non-figurative character, which is primarily imprinted on the painting surface, while at the same time it tends to penetrate the space. The overlapping placements of shapes, often on transparent surfaces, with overlays or erasures, highlighted the fleeting and changing traces of the image, like palimpsests.
Since the 1980s, his work has spread even more in space, often taking the form of visual installations, using various media (prints, photography, video, drawing, painting, etc.), depending on his expressive needs . The traces-imprints of human bodies on large fabric surfaces became the new figurative and meaningful reference point of his works. The comments made in this way concern art as a physical process and, at the same time, as an interpretive approach to things. References to works of antiquity indicate the timeless character of his reflections.
He taught at the Department of Architecture of A.P.Th. (1982-1999) and in 2008 he was elected professor at the ASKT of Athens, where he taught until 2012.
He has held individual exhibitions, mainly in Greece and has participated in dozens of group exhibitions, in Greece, in European and Asian countries and in the USA. des Jeunes (Paris 1980), at Europalia (1982, where he was awarded the Prix Europe in Ostend, Belgium), at the Sao Paulo Biennale (1983), at the Salon de Montrouge (Paris 1996) and at the events for Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of of Europe (1997). In 2006, a retrospective exhibition of his designs was organized at the Benaki Museum and the M.M.S.T. and an album was published with texts by N. Valaoritis, T. Patrikiou, et al. In 2008 he created a permanent art installation for the “Elaionas” station of the Athens Metro.
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