Artist
Alekos Fasianos
Greek, 1935–2022
Alekos Fasianos was a Greek Realism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Athens School of Fine Arts. Alekos Fasianos was born in Athens.
Overview
Alekos Fassianos (Greek: Αλέκος Φασιανός, 13 December 1935 – 16 January 2022) was a renowned Greek painter. He gained recognition for his distinctive style, which was characterized by immediacy and a deliberate departure from standardized painting techniques.
Life and career
Fassianos was born in Athens but originated from Nafpaktos. After graduating from the Athens School of Fine Arts, he moved to Paris, France, in 1960, to study lithography at the Paris National School of Arts, where he met several artists and writers. Fassianos used to design the stage decorations for major classic and modern productions. His art has been exhibited in museums and galleries including in Athens, Paris, and throughout Europe, as well as in Tokyo, New York, São Paulo, and Melbourne. In addition to private collections, his art works can be found in the following museums in France; the Paris Museum of Modern Art; the Maeght Foundation, San Paul de Vence;l, and the Center for Contemporary Art. Fassianos was very popular in Greece, and some of his works are exhibited in public places: two large murals entitled The Myth of My Neighborhood, can be seen in Athens at the Metaxourgeio metro station. Small sculptures can be seen in front of the Orthodox Church of St. Irene in Athens. A giant vertical mural can be seen in the lobby of the Electra Metropolis Hotel in Athens. On 13 December 2007, a Fassianos painting titled The Messenger sold for €550,701 at Bonhams in London. Fassianos died on 16 January 2022, at the age of 86.
Honours
1985: Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) 19??: Member of the Fine Arts Academy of Athens (Greece) 2009: Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts (Russia) 2010: Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (France) 2013: Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour (France) 2020: Commander of the Order Arts and Letters (France)
Public and private collections
France
National Centre for Visual Arts (CNAP) Paris Museum of Modern Art (MAM Paris) Mobilier National Museum, Paris Maeght Foundation, Saint Paul de Vence Villa Tamaris Art Center, La Seyne Sur Mer Paul Valéry Museum, Sète Center of engraving and printed image, La Louvière Museum of Grenoble, Grenoble Greece and Cyprus
National Art Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens Benaki museum, Athens Cycladic Art Museum, Athens Frissiras Museum, Athens Theocharakis Foundation, Athens American College of Greece (ACG Art), Athens Hellenic Olympic Committee, Athens European Culture Centre of Delphi, Delphi Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil, Sparta Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), Thessaloniki Averoff Museum, Metsovo Museum of Contemporary Art Andros, Andros Municipality of Rhodes Modern Greek Art Museum, Rhodes Nikos Kazantzakis Museum, Crete Historical Archive - Museum of Hydra (I.A.M.Y), Hydra Nicosia Municipal Art Center (NiMAC), Nicosia, Cyprus Pierides Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus Worldwide
Hellenic Foundation for Culture, New-York, Usa Hellenic Foundation for Culture, London, United-Kingdom Creator Vesevo, Ercolano, Italy Osten Museum of Drawing, Skopje, North Macedonia Museum of history and religion, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
1990s
1991 Galerie Zoumboulakis, Athens, Greece 1991 Galerie La Hune - Brenner, Paris, France 1992 SAGA, Grand Palais, Galerie La Hunne - Brenner, Paris, France 1992 Galerie Grafika Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 1992 Galerie Zoumboulakis, Athens, Greece 1992 Galerie Origrafica, Malmö, Sweden 1993 Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France 1993 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), Retrospective, Thessaloniki, Greece 1993 Galerie La Hune - Brenner, Paris, France 1994 Galerie Origrafica, Malmö, Sweden 1995 Galerie La Hune - Brenner, Paris, France 1996 Galerie Pudelco, Bonn, Germany 1996 Kunstkabinett Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany 1996 Jaski Art Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1997 Paul Valery Museum & Nikos Kazantakis Museum (Twinning), Sète, France 1997 Galerie Grafika Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 1998 European Culture Center of Delphi, Retrospective, Delphi, Greece 1998 Galerie Rachlin-Lemarié, Angels and Loves, Paris, France 1999 Paul Valery Museum, Sète, France 1999 NIKAF art fair, Galerie Futura, Tokyo, Japan
2000s
2000 Art Miami, Galerie Futura, Miami, Usa 2000 Galerie La Hune - Brenner, Paris, France 2000 Galerie Rachlin-Lemarié, Daily Mythology, Paris, France 2000 Villa Kerylos, Daily Mythology, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France 2000 Galerie Bixio 2, Milan, Italy 2001 Hellenic Foundation for Culture, New York, Usa 2001 Château de Chenonceau, Le Mythe à bicyclette, Chenonceau, France 2002 Museum of Cycladic Art, The winners, Athens, Greece 2003 Hellenic Foundation for Culture, London, United-Kingdom 2003 Galerie Zannettacci, Geneva, Switzerland 2003 Galerie La Hune - Brenner, Les Travaux Des Dieux, Paris, France 2003 Galerie Grafika Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2004 Benaki Museum, Travaux, mythes, Eros, Athens, Greece 2004 National Art Gallery, A. Soutzos Museum, Everyday Mythologies, Athens, Greece 2004 Galerie Grafika Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 2005 Tem Sanat Galerisi, Alecos Fassianos, Istanbul, Turkey 2005 Galerie Zannettacci, Geneva, Switzerland 2007 Galerie Potnia Thiron, L'éternel Retour, Athens, Greece 2007 Galerie Schneider, Munich, Germany 2008 Galerie Di Meo, Eroticon, Paris, France 2008 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia 2008 Galerie Potnia Thiron, Tout ce qu'il nous reste, Athens, Greece 2009 Galerie Helenbeck, Soft Mythology, Nice, France 2009 Galerie Zannettacci, Geneva, Switzerland 2009 Municipality of Rhodes Modern Greek Art Museum, Fassianos - 45 Years Of Creation, Rhodes, Greece
2010s
2010 Galerie Grafika Tokyo, The Aegean Breeze, Tokyo, Japan 2010 Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Recovery of happiness, Paris, France 2010 Galerie Thierry Salvador, Memories, Brussels, Belgium 2011 Opera Gallery, Fassianos, London, United Kingdom 2011 Villa Tamaris Art center, Memories, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France 2011 Galerie Herrmann, Fassianos, Berlin, Germany 2011 Pavlos Kountouriotis Mansion, Fassianos: Giorgos Economopoulos Collection, Hydra, Grèce 2011 Tem Sanat Galerisi, Fassianos, Istanbul, Turkey 2011 Hellenic Museum, Fassianos, Ancient myth - Modern situations, Melbourne, Australia 2012 Galerie Di Meo, Fassianos, The light rediscovered, Paris, France 2012 Galerie Estades, Fassianos, Lyon, France 2012 Abbaye-école de Sorèze, Alecos Fassianos et sa muse Gudrun Von Leitner, Sorèze, France 2012 Grosvenor Gallery, Everyday myths, London, United Kingdom 2014 Galerie Zannettacci, Fassianos, Geneva, Switzerland 2014 Galerie Française - Gérard Schneider, Fassianos, Munich, Germany 2014 Espace Paul-et-André-Vera, Fassianos, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France 2015 Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Alekos Fassianos, Mykonos, Greece 2016 Museum of History and religion, Ancient Greek Myths in everyday life, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2016 Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Apocalypse, Patmos, Greece 2016 Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Fassianos - joie de vivre, Paris, France 2017 Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Alekos Fassianos, Athens, Greece 2018 Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Fassianos, Paris, France 2018 Iris Gallery, Small works, Athens, Greece 2018 Historical Archive - Museum of Hydra (I.A.M.Y), Fassianos in France, Hydra, Greece 2019 Galerie Estades, Alecos Fassianos, Paris, France
Group exhibitions
1963 Pantechnicon, San Francisco 1965 SWEA, Stockholm 1968 Biennale of Menton 1982 Palais des Congrès : Europalia with Caras, Christoforou, Gaïtis & Alkis Pierrakos, Brussels, Belgium 2000 Kunstkabinett Regensburg, Contemporary Drawings and Sculptures, Regensburg, Germany 2009 Opera Gallery, Fassianos - Timur D'Vatz, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 2011 Galerie Pascal Polar, The Figurative Art of Greek Artists, Brussels, Belgium 2012 Musée du verre et de ses métiers, Daum - Art, luxury & crystal, Dordives, France 2012 Opera Gallery, A Century of Nudes, Geneva, Switzerland 2013 Villa Tamaris Art Center, Retrospective, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France 2014 Galerie Morfi, Group exhibition of Cypriot and Greek artists, Limassol, Cyprus 2015 Galerie David Hicks, Fassianos - Oppenheim, Paris, France 2016 Opera Gallery, Shades of blue, Monaco, France 2016 Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti Gallery, Small Paintings, Athens, Greece 2016 Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Genii Loci - Greek Art From 1930 To The Present, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2017 Manoir du Boulanc, Greeks !, Verderonne, France 2017 Kapopoulos Fine Arts, Segui – Fassianos, Mykonos, Greece 2017 Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti Gallery, Small Paintings, Athens, Greece 2018 Paul Valéry Museum, Painting and Poetry, Sète, France 2018 Moca Skopje, The Greek Collection, Skopje, North Macedonia 2018 Maeght Foundation, The Spirit of a Collection : Gifts, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France 2019 Roma Gallery, Alekos Fassianos - Dimitris Mytaras, Athens, Greece 2019 Ikastikos Kiklos Sianti Gallery, A Beach in the City, Athens, Greece 2019 Theocharakis Foundation, Alekos Fassianos, Vangelis Chronis – 30 Years of Friendship, Paintings and Poetry, Athens, Greece 2020 Galerie Élysée Saint-Honoré, Yves Navarre meets Alekos Fassianos, Paris, France
Collections represented
Museum