Tassos Pavlopoulos

Apearances can be deceiving

8 December, 2005 - 4 February, 2006

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  BIOGRAPHY
 

 

Tassos Pavlopoulos was born in Athens in 1955. In 1995 he designed one of the twelve sculptures (Art Clock Towers) produced by Swatch for the Olympic Games in 1996 in Atlanta. Currently he lives and works in Athens, Greece.

 

EDUCATION

 

1978-1983

Graphic arts and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw under Henryk Tomaszewski and Teresa Pagowski (post-graduate scholarship by the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY) to study painting).

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2015

“Phantasmagoria”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

2011

ArtCologne, (Kalfayan Galleries), Cologne.

2010

“Sewing-mechanics”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

2008

“Wasteland”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

2005   

“Appearances Can Be Deceiving”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

2004

“Dialogues 2004”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.

2003

Art Athina – Contemporary Art Fair, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

“The Extras”, Kalfayan Galleries, 44th International Film Festival, Thessaloniki (The poster of the Film Festival was designed by T. Pavlopoulos).

2002

“Tam Tam”, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.

“Tam Tam”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

2001   

“The Bodyguards”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

1999   

“Absences”, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.

1997   

Art Athina – Contemporary Art Fair, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

1996   

Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.

1995   

“Outside Space and Time”, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens.

1993

“Post-Zorro”, Artio Gallery, Athens.

1992

“Drafts and Rafts”, Artio Gallery, Athens.

1989   

Prisma Gallery, Rhodes.

1988   

Artio Gallery, Athens.

1987

Athina Gallery, Athens.

1983   

Ora Gallery, Athens.

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2019

‘a.O. – b.c. An audiovisual diary’, STATE OF CONCEPT, Athens.

2015

Kenophobia, CAN gallery, Athens.

2009

“Personal-Political” (curated by Areti Leopoulou & Theodore Markoglou). Parallel exhibition of the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennial. Organised by the State Museum of Contemporary Art.

“1000+1 Praxis” (curated by Dorothea Kontelegidou). Parallel exhibition of the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennial. Organised by the State Museum of Contemporary Art.

Art Athina, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

2007

“Athens Voice: Art On The Front Page III”, Benaki Museum, Athens.

 “At the MOTEL”, International Festival of Olympia, Olympia.

 “Visual Arts in Greece, Crossing The Borders”, State Museum of Contemporary   Art, Thessaloniki.

“arthistory.com”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

“Athens Voice: Art On The Front Page II”, Benaki Museum, Athens.

“Lacoste Project 12.12.”, Benaki Museum, Athens.

“Cow Parade”, Athens.

2005   

“The Yorgos Costopoulos Collection”, Art Gallery, Alexandroupolis.

“The Yorgos Costopoulos Collection”, Municipal Cultural Centre, Zakinthos.

“The Yorgos Costopoulos Collection”, Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Koropi.

“Communicating with Humor”, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.

“Encounters”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

“Athens Voice: Art On The Front Page I”, Benaki Museum, Athens.

2004

“Near Likeness. Approaches to a Portrait of A. Benakis”, Benaki Museum, Athens.

“Micky Mouse Meets Art”, Hellenic American Union, Athens. 

“In Our Image, after Our Likeness”, Frissiras Museum, Athens.

“Metamorphoses of the Body”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

 “Athens, Metropolis by Accident?”, Athens.

2003   

“Bureaucracy”, Greek Ministry of the Interior, Athens.

“Selections of the Kalfayan Galleries”, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.

“Selections of the Kalfayan Galleries”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

“With the Power of Art”, Grande Bretagne Hotel, Athens.

2002

“30 Years and More, The Diamantidis’ Collection”, Municipal Gallery, Thessaloniki.

2001

“Meetings II”, Municipal Art Gallery, Leszno, Poland.

“Mythologies of the Book, Contemporary Greek Artists”, Frankfurt, Germany.

“Visions and Shackles”, Municipal Cultural Centre, Athens.

“Eureka, 40+1 Years of Creation in 8 Artworks”, Athinais, Athens.

“Diadromes 2”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.

2000

“Disturbing Tales IV”, Agathi Gallery, Athens.

“Play Football”, Fournos, Athens.

“Ta Kafenia”, Psychari 36 Gallery, Athens.

The Greek Contemporary Art Collection of the Athenaeum Inter-Continental Hotel, Athens.

1999

“Karaghiozis, The Shadow Theater and the Fine Arts”, Municipal Gallery, Patra.

“Eggs and Easter”, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.

“Expanding Possibilities”, Hewlett Packard, The Old Gasworks, Athens.

“Disturbing Tales III”, Agathi Gallery, Athens.

1997

“Greek Realities”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark.

“AdvARTising”, Saatchi & Saatchi, Adel, Pierides Gallery, Athens.

1996   

“Greek Realities”, Berlin, Germany.

“Art to Swatch”, Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago, USA.

“Garbage”, Contemporary Art Centre, Larissa.

1995

“Configura 2, Dialog der Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany.   

1994

“On the Opposite Side, Municipal Gallery, Athens.

1993

“V Biennale of New Art, Art Without Bounds, Zielona Gora, Poland.

“The Municipal Gallery of Rhodes’ Collection, National Gallery, Athens.

“MACCHERONI & FAGIOLI”, Museo di Espressione Antagonista Contemporanea, Florence, Italy.

The Vlassis Frissiras Collection, Chania, Crete.

1992

Intermedia Gallery, Zielona Gora, Poland.

“Gardens”, Poznan, Poland.

1991   

Lineart, International Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium.

'Kunst Europe 91’, Berlin, Germany.

“Assault on the Senses, DESTE Foundation, House of Cyprus, Athens.

1990   

“Out of Limits”, Wielka 19 Gallery, Poznan, Poland.

“Lineart, International Art Fair” Ghent, Belgium.

“No Man’s Land”, Municipal Cultural Centre, Athens.

1989

“6 Murales per 1a Natura”, Verona, Italy.

“Balkan Art Exhibition”, Bucharest, Rumania.

1988

Contemporary Art Gallery, Leszno, Poland.

1987

“Athens – Visual Arts”, Municipal Cultural Centre, Athens.

Panhellenic Art Exhibition, Piraeus.

1986   

Biennale of Young Artists from Mediterranean Countries, Thessaloniki.

 

RECENT REVIEW

Stephanie Bailey, review: “Tassos Pavlopoulos – Kalfayan Galleries”, Artforum, Vo.54 / no.1, September 2015, p.403.

 

ARTIST’S PUBLICATIONS

Phantasmagoria, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, 2015.

Raptomihanika, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, 2010.

Pavlopoulos Bonus 2008-2010, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, 2010.

Kraniou Topos, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, 2008.

Useless Head Full of Gold and Dung, Kalfayan Galleries - Istros Art Publications, Athens, 2006.

Colo-Colo, Κalfayan Galleries – Agra Publications, Athens, 2005.

Tam-Tam, Istros Art Publications, Athens, 2002.

No Parking…, Agra Publications, Athens, 2000.

Museum of Muses, Agra Publications, Athens, 1998.

Make Love … Not Art!, Igres Publications, Athens, 1996 .

The Memoirs of the Captain, Mavros Ilios Publications/Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens, 1995.

Drafts and Rafts, Mavros Ilios Publications, Athens, 1992.