Edouard Sacaillan
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13 February – 28 March 2020
11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki
Following the successful retrospective presentation of Edouard Sacaillan’s work in Versailles in 2018, Kalfayan Galleries (Haritos 11,Kolonaki, Athens) are pleased to present the solo exhibition of new works with reference to one of his most popular themes, the‘spectators’.Edouard Sacaillan’s first solo exhibition focused exclusively on the theme of 'spectators' was held at Kalfayan Galleries in Thessalonikiin 2008. The 2020 gallery show in Athens manifests the endless, hearty and multi-faceted inspiration of the artist, who is researchingthe theme of ‘spectators’ from a sociological and philosophical view-point. Incarnating the existential anxiety of the modern man,Sacaillan’s 'observers' star in scenes from everyday life. The environments and themes of the ‘spectators’ are enriched and the urbanlandscape plays a dominant role in the works presented in the exhibition: images from the subway, daily traffic jams or long queues attram stations.
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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