Edouard Sacaillan’s paintings provoke with their honesty and poetry. With his characteristic artistic idiom that explores and constantly experiments with the limits of representation, the internationally renowned painter -based in Athens and Paris - invites the viewers to enter into his own unique dream world, a colorful parade of ‘spectator’s, ‘clowns’, ‘car drivers’ and ‘swimmers’. At the epicenter of the artist's interest lies, as always, the study of light, a fact that is vividly reflected in the new series titled "Les toits de Paris" (‘The rooftops of Paris’) presented for the first time at Kalfayan Galleries.

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Edouard Sacaillan (born 1957, Thessaloniki) lives and works in Paris. He studied at the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1976-1981 with Mytaras, Moralis) and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts in Paris (1984-87 with Leonardo Cremonini). Awards: 18th Alexandria Biennial Painting Prize (1994); "The Trophies of Color, the Lefranc-Bourgeois National Painting Award", Lefranc-Bourgeois, Cirque d'Hivers, Paris (1992); Prix de l'Académie de Médecine de France (1987). Recent solo exhibitions include: "Viewers Sweemers", Th. Stamos Cultural Center, Lefkada, Greece (2022); "Edouard Sacaillan – The Viewed: Paintings from The Sotiris Felios Collection", The Municipal Art Gallery of Corfu, Greece (2021); "Viewers, Audience, White Horseman, Mob and Herd", Teloglion Art Foundation, Thessaloniki (2020), "Les Spectateurs - Retrospective Édouard Sacaillan", Espace Richaud, Versailles, Paris (2018). Sacaillan has exhibited his work in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad: Center Pompidou, Paris; Belvedere, Vienna; Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; National Gallery and Benaki Museum, Athens; Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki. His works are featured in major private and museum collections in Greece and abroad such as the following: The Louis-Dreyfous Family Collection, New York; Ministère de l'Économie, Paris; Lefranc-Bourgeois, Paris; National Gallery - Alexandros Sundzou Museum, Athens; State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; National Bank of Greece; Frisira Foundation, Athens; Teloglion Foundation, Thessaloniki; Rhodes Municipal Art Gallery; The Sotiris Felios Collection, Athens; Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, Athens et al.