VASsiLIS SELIMAS
Selected Works 2012-2015
Vassilis Selimas was born in 1983. He studied painting at the School of fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2003-2008). He lives and works in Athens, Greece. Solo Exhibitions 2015 Building 1,Vogiatzoglou Art Space, Athens 2013 Nostalgists, Thanassis Frissiras Gallery, Athens Selected group exhibitions 2015 Map of the new art, Imago Mundi, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice 2015 Art Athina, Kaplanon Galleries, Athens 2014 Art Athina-Platform Projects, Inside Stories, Athens 2014 Castles in the air, Mare Gallery, Chania/Crete 2013 Shame/Here, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki 2013 Incidents ‘D , Collection of Antonis &Azia Hadjioannou, Syros 2013 Thanassis Frissiras Gallery, Athens 2012 Salus Patriae, P&M Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros 2012 Face to Face, Frissiras Museum, Athens 2011 Gallery Apocalypse, Cyprus 2009 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Graduate Exhibition, Thessaloniki 2006 Novisart Festival,Novisad,Serbia
…Vassilis Selimas is interested in depicting the inner mental condition of his figures, but in order to achieve that, he doesn’t hesitate to make use of an extensively detailed reconstruction of the human body and face referring to the tradition of Flemish painting. Next to minuscule works, he completes paintings of large dimensions all products of intense concentration... …Frozen faces, with the same expression, forever focused on the present, define the creator’s abilities between the idea and its completion… Eleni Kypreou Text from the exhibition Building One, Vogiatzoglou Art Space, N.Ionia, Athens 2015
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About memory pencil on paper, 52x37 cm, 2014
Antigone acrylics on canvas, 120x90 cm, 2015
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Her world acrylics on canvas, 30x25 cm, 2014
Homeland acrylics on canvas, 20x20 cm, 2015
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Many choices acrylics on canvas, 30x25 cm, 2015
They never talked acrylics on canvas, 80x80 cm, 2014
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Portrait of D.B acrylics on canvas, 100x80 cm, 2014
Portrait of wait acrylics on canvas, 20x20 cm, 2014
Hypocrites acrylics on canvas, 50x30 cm,2014
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In her microcosmos acrylics on canvas, 60x50 cm, 2012
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Three solutions pencil on paper, 90x112 cm, 2014
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Mother of guilt acrylics on canvas, 20x20 cm, 2014
Personal truth acrylics on paper, 50x32 cm, 2014
Reference to N.CH acrylics on canvas, 90x100 cm, 2012
Portrait of D. acrylics on canvas, 30x25 cm, 2013
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INSTEAD OF Love acrylics on canvas, 100x100cm, 2012
Without you pencil on paper, 100x60 cm, 2013
Untitled acrylics on canvas, 30x25 cm, 2014
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The dreamer acrylics on canvas, 70x60 cm, 2013
23 ...In the light of certain balances on the cusp of delight and sorrow, vanity and hope, the tragic and irony, Selimas reveals the way in which his language serves to form images and create structures- a language full of allusions to the obvious, which is constantly transformed, leaving in its place question marks and exclamation marks as repercussions or “opening bars� of life. Athena Schina
Text from the exhibition Salus Patriae at P&M Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros, Greece, 2012
The balance of memory acrylics on canvas, 100x80 cm, 2012
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