
Jason Molfessis (1925 – 2009)
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20 January – 5 March 2022
11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki
Kalfayan Galleries (11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki, Athens) present an exhibition of works by Jason Molfessis (1925 – 2009), one of the most prominent post-war Greek painters and sculptors, who lived and worked mainly in Paris. This is the first solo presentation of the artist’s work after his death in 2009. With this exhibition, as well as through a series of future exhibitions, projects and presentations, Kalfayan Galleries ‘re-introduces’ the pioneering work of Molfessis, with the aim to highlight his artistic legacy and its importance for Modernism internationally. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Thursday, January 20, 2022, 18.00 – 21.00.
The works exhibited at Kalfayan Galleries are representative of the art envisioned and created by Molfessis: an art which is timeless, without borders, open, unconventional and which lets the viewer “inhale” the artwork.
Artists
Jason Molfessis
Jason Molfessis was born in Athens in 1925. He studied at the School of Fine Arts between 1941-46 with teachers K. Parthenis, D. Biskinis and E. Thomopoulos, while also studying at the Athens Law School. While serving in the army he got acquainted with Byzantine art in the monasteries of Northern Greece and worked on a series of iconographies, seeking a spiritual counterweight to the barbarism of the raging civil war. In 1950 he left for Paris where he attended, at the École des Beaux Arts, Pierre-Henri Ducos’ fresco workshop as well as Jean Souverbie's painting workshop (1951-52).
Sophisticated, cultured, restless, with intense artistic and philosophical quests, Molfessis settled permanently in Paris in a period bursting with new movements of abstract art and abstract expressionism and closely experienced all the international artistic developments. He was part of the avant-garde of his time while maintaining contacts in Greece and had an exceptional artistic career, sublimating the stimulations and teachings of his environment into a special artistic language of his own.
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