Alekos Fasianos: What personal experiences influenced his work – His vision

Alekos Fasianos who passed away yesterday could be considered a descendant of the generation of the ’30s, pointed out the curators of a large retrospective exhibition of the painter, which was entitled “Mythologies of the everyday” and was organized in 2004 at the National Gallery.

Compass of his work: “the dominant myth of ‘Greekness'”, the belief in eternal Greek values, the only ones that, according to the ideology of the eponymous generation, provided guarantees of authenticity and citizenship in the creation of a Greek artist. His childhood years in Plaka, in the shadow of the Acropolis, his philological mother and his tenure in the laboratory of Giannis Moralis at the School of Fine Arts must have acted as catalysts, accelerating this orientation “, observed the art historians Efi Agathonikou and Artemis Zerimer in that retrospective report.

Fasianos’ color canvas, his roots in traditional art, made the painter popular, elevating his artistic idiom to a prominent position.

Aleko Fasianos’s vision to house his work in a museum in his paternal home, in the area of ​​Larissa station, at the junction of N. Metaxa and Chios streets, became a reality “by hand” of the great architect Kyriakos Krokos. The two friends collaborated for the reconstruction of the Athenian apartment building of the ’70s and the works began in the early’ 90s. They were completed in 1995. The building functioned as an exhibition space for the artist’s works, where from time to time Alekos Fasianos gave lectures. The painter’s daughter, Victoria Fasianou, gives new life to the architecture in order to fulfill the purpose for which the building was intended and to be inaugurated in 2022.

Apart from the frescoes and the artistic interventions of Aleko Fasianos in the building, the museum aims to gradually present all the artistic periods of the artist, from 1959 to 2019, in the whole of his work and in the way that it was expressed in all areas that Alekos Fasianos tackled: theater, book illustration, ceramic art …

The life and work of the great painter – The 3 main motifs in his paintings

The emblematic painter Alekos Fasianos, born in Athens in 1935, studied violin at the Athens Conservatory and painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1955-1960) with Giannis Moralis.

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Fasianos’ characteristic style is formed in the early 60’s. Three basic themes remained unchanged during his course: man, nature, environment.

Shortly after his first solo exhibition in Athens (1960, gallery A23), he went to Paris on a scholarship from the French government. There he attended lithography classes at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, near Clairin and Dayez (1962-64). Eventually he settled more permanently in the French capital, where he lived for 35 years, maintaining a close and regular relationship with Greece.

The special features of his art were gradually formed, during his stay in Paris, where he had the opportunity to get acquainted, among other things, with the modern trends of the 1960s. However, unlike other Greek artists of his generation, he did not write obviously with the European pioneering currents of the time. He remained faithful to documentary painting and its Greek origins, maintaining until the end his respect for some teachings of the generation of 30, his love for Greek art (ancient, Byzantine, folk), and his strong ties with his lived experience. Greek space.

His subjects are dominated by the human figure, which is initially attributed with a deliberate simplicity, but over time evolves and acquires a dominant presence in space. It is designed stylized, with simple and clear contours, in flat compositions with minimal light shading. Often the color spreads intense and uniform throughout the surface of the form, giving an impressive monumentality to the image, which works mainly poetically and not realistically. The motifs that occasionally appear in his paintings, both purely anthropocentric (cyclists, smokers, erotic couples, etc.) and those that describe objects or places, come primarily from a familiar everyday life, but which takes on a mythical dimension, especially when there are direct references to figures in Greek mythology.

He has illustrated books by well-known poets and authors in Greece and France (by Elytis, Tachtsi, Cavafy, Aragon, Apollinaire, etc.). He has also designed posters and stamps. As a set designer and costume designer he collaborated with the National Theater, the Art Theater of Karolos Koun and other troupes, in performances of ancient drama and contemporary works. He has also published his own texts, short and poetic. In 2000 he created works for the Metaxourgio Station of the Athenian Metro. Four films have been made about his work, from Greek and French television, while several monographs are being released. In 1999 he was awarded by the Academy of Athens and in 2010 he was honored by the French government with the Order of Legion d’Honneur (Officier des Lettres et des Arts).

He presented his work in more than 70 solo exhibitions in Greece and in many European cities. His last retrospective exhibition was at the National Gallery (2004), entitled Fasianos, Mythologies of the Daily. He has participated repeatedly in group exhibitions and international events in Greece and in other parts of the world (Sao Paulo Biennale 1971, Venice Biennale 1972, Europalia, Brussels 1982, Baden-Baden Graphic Design Biennale 1985, etc.).

You can see in more detail the work of the great artist here

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