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The exhibition of Vassilis Skylakos – “Travelogue: Works 1960-1964” includes works kept for sixty years in a drawer, and created by the artist during his stay abroad (Rome, Copenhagen, Paris) and on trips he made during that period. The key feature of these abstract works is their biomorphic character. Skylakos’ design thinking looks familiar and at the same time surprises us with its originality. The forms he paints are open, permeable, with a particular architectural structure. They may touch but never join, never penetrate one another. These are forms that invite us to fill them out. They are not scribbles or drafts. They converse with the sculptural forms of Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, but without seeking a direct connection to the human body or the landscape, so these biomorphic shapes function more as paths. The artist’s hand traces these unknown routes on wood and paper, thus composing an unusual travelogue. These abstract works, resembling coded letters, reveal a nomadic artist who handles line and color with particular skill and keen sensitivity. |
Vassilis Skylakos (1930-2000) was a multi-dimensional artist, one of the most charismatic of the postwar generation. Besides a painter and sculptor, he was an interior decorator, jewellery designer and antique dealer. His work was identified by the art of assemblage, and was associated with various tendencies and movements, such as accretion, anti-art, environmental art, Junk sculpture, Mobile, neo-Dadaism / neo-Dada, Nouveau Réalisme and Pop Art. Skylakos’ work is mostly based on emotion rather than on intellect. The habit of collecting useless and cheap and worthless materials found on the street market, indicates an unusual and special attraction to the material as a physical substance in general. In the case of Skylakos, this attraction was interconnected with the transformation and revitalization of wasted materials: “My work always started from this marginal point that something had been definitively useless and had lost every reason of existence and was totally out of order. I am interested in giving life to what is no longer needed and to make visible was does not exist”, stated himself. |
VASSILIS SKYLAKOS
TRAVELOGUE
Works 1960-1964
Duration:
14.03.2023 – 29.04.2023
![]() Oil on wood, Opened 85 x 156.5 x 5 cm | ![]() Oil on wood, Closed 85 x 78 x 8 cm |
![]() Oil on wood, Opened 85 x 152 x 6 cm | ![]() Oil on wood, Closed 85 x 76 x 9.5 cm |
![]() Oil on wood, 183 x 122 x 5 cm | ![]() Oil on wood, 183 x 122 x 5 cm |
![]() Oil on wood, 44 x 37 cm | ![]() Oil on wood, 36 x 26.5 cm |
![]() Mixed media on paper, 32 x 24 cm |
VASSILIS SKYLAKOS
TRAVELOGUE
Works 1960-1964
Duration:
14.03.2023 – 29.04.2023


Vassilis Skylakos
Triptych, 1963
Oil on wood
Opened 85 x 156.5 x 5 cm
Closed 85 x 78 x 8 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
Triptych, 1963
Oil on wood
Opened 85 x 152 x 6 cm
Closed 85 x 76 x 9.5 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
Biomorphic shapes, 1964
Oil on wood
183 x 122 x 5 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
Biomorphic shapes, 1963
Oil on wood
183 x 122 x 5 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
Biomorphic shapes, 1962
Oil on wood
43.5 x 26.5 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
Biomorphic shapes
Oil on wood
44 x 37 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
Biomorphic shapes, 1962
Oil on wood
36 x 26.5 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Untitled”, 1961
Mixed media on paper
39.5 x 29 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Untitled”, 1960
Mixed media on paper
39.5 x 29 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Untitled”, 1960
Mixed media on paper
39.5 x 29 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Untitled”, 1960
Mixed media on paper
39.5 x 29 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Untitled”, 1964
Mixed media on paper
37 x 29 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“ALCOY”, 9.VIII.1963
Mixed media on paper
32 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“England”, 1963
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Serbien”, 1964
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Graekenland”, 1963
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Thurn & Taxis”, 1964
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Bayern”, 1964
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Fiume”, 1963
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Spanien”, 1963
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Belgien”, 1963
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Wyrtemberg”, 1964
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Bayern”, 1964
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Epirus”, 1964
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“Monaco-San Marino”, 1964
Mixed media on paper
31 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“ALCOY”, 16.VIII. 1963
Mixed media on paper
32 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“ALCOY”, 16.VIII. 1963
Mixed media on paper
32 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“ALCOY”, 9.VIII. 1963
Mixed media on paper
32 x 24 cm
Vassilis Skylakos
“ALCOY”, 9.VIII. 1963
Mixed media on paper
32 x 24 cm