Tassos KALIAKATSOS
He was born in Arta. He studied Fine Arts in Athens and Paris. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions and artistic events in Greece and abroad. He lives and works in Ioannina Greece. Co-founder of Gallery 3Portes.
Tassos is a visual artist who developed his research around the activity of painting. Through his tactile functions, he explores the essence of the drawing that led to the creation of a project. By preserving the preliminary lines (which should have remained hidden), he reveals the skeleton of his works. His paintings remind us that art should be a free space where boundaries can be broken down. Like a ‘sign hunter’, he pursues, seeks out, and locates the trace of an act of conception that appears between the layers of paint. With great care, like an archaeologist, he unearths the slightest indecisive line and the traces of trial and error specific to the moment when the idea appears.