Edouard Sacaillan
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24 January– 30 March 2013
11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki
Kalfayan Galleries are pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Edouard Sacaillan at the Athens gallery space (11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki, Athens). The opening is on Thursday, 24 January 2013, from 20.00 to 22.00.
Eroticism in art can be suggestive as in Bernini’s sculpture or Mapplethorpe’s photographs of flowers or explicit, as in antique pottery or Jeff Koons’ photographs. The exhibition at Kalfayan Galleries presents a new body of work by Edouard Sacallan in which the artist takes man’s most basic and primal of human aspects, his sexuality, as his starting point to communicate his characteristic theme of isolation and the loneliness of contemporary man. The artist’s cynicism emerges through emotionally raw imagery that focuses on the lack of communication between the figures, caught at their most intimate moments yet appearing remote and impersonal in their interactions. As the artist states, “My works are motivations and adventures, without the vulgarity of illusion and without the puritanism of iconoclasm. I have no titles for these works or inferences. It is painting which results in an image. Ten works through which I lived a few days of my life”.
The exhibition is not appropriate for young children.
Artists
Edouard Sacaillan
Edouard Sacaillan (b. Thessaloniki, 1957) lives and works in Athens and Paris. He studied at the Athens School of Fine arts (1976-81, studios of Dimitris Mytaras and Yiannis Moralis) and at L’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1984-87, studio of Leonardo Cremonini). Awards: Painting Award at the 18th Biennale of Alexandra (1994), the Lefranc-Bourgeois National Award for Painting (Paris, 1992) and the Prix de l’ Académie de Médecine de France (1987). Selected solo exhibitions include: Affordable Art Fair (Galerie Mιnksy), New York (2011); “Edouard Sacaillan: The Artist’s Eye”, Frissiras Museum, Athens (2009); “Spectators”, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki (2008); Vienna Art Fair (Kalfayan Galleries, 2008); “Utopias of Paradise”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens (2007); “Landscapes and People”, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Athens (2006); “Dialogues 2005”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki; “Spaces with People”, Foundation of Thracian Art & Tradition in collaboration with Kalfayan Galleries (2005) and Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki (2005); Galerie Lefor Openo, Paris (2002). Selected group shows include: “Gold”, (guest curator: Thomas Zaunschirm), Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum, Vienna (2012); “White & Black”, Frissiras Museum, Athens (2011), “The Naked Truth”, Frissiras Museum, Athens (2010); “The Perspective of Time – Pictorial Histories: Paintings from the Sotiris Felios Collection”, Benaki Museum, Piraeus Annex, Athens (2009); “35 Contemporary Greek Artists on Democracy”, Zappeion Exhibition Hall, Athens (2009); “Art Contemporain d’ Arménie”, Orangerie du Luxembourg, Musée d’ Art Moderne d’ Arménie , Paris (2007); “Visual Arts in Greece II, Artistic Innovation. Semiotics of its Conditions in the New Era”, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2007) and “Voyageur sans boussole: Sur les traces de Dubuffet”, Museum of Modern Art, Centre G. Pompidou, Paris (2002).
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