Nikos Kessanlis
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1930 |
Born in Thessaloniki. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Yannis Moralis and at the same time worked in the workshops of N. Nikolaou and Y. Spyropoulos |
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1947 |
1st Exhibition in Komotini |
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1955 |
He moves to Rome where he embarks on his career in the "tradition of the new". It opposed the figurative tendency of conventional painting, which, during the inter-war years, reproduced the petit-bourgeois notions of "genre" painting and "good taste" |
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1957 |
0belisco Gallery, Rome |
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1958 |
Montenapoleone Gallery, Μilan Numero Gallery, Florence Auriga Gallery, Bern |
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1959 |
Obelisco Gallery. Rome |
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1960 |
He settles in Paris where there is a renewed interest in the Dada and the poetics of the art informel. He was an exponent and cο-founder of the "mec-art" movement. His career in art was marked by his attainment of an international language which stood out in the time and the culture in which it evolved, at the same time encompassing in a vivid way the adventures of postwar avant-garde in Europe |
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1961 |
Numero Gallery, Florence |
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1962 |
Numero Gallery, Florence Numero Gallery, Milan Il Cancello Gallery, Bolognia Lacloche Gallery, Paris |
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1963 |
Numero Gallery, Florence Museum of Modern Art, Miami |
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1965 |
Lacloche Gallery, Paris B. Katz Gallery, Berlin Obelisco Gallery, Rome |
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1967 |
Ν. Smith Gallery, Brussels |
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1976 |
Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens |
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1977 |
Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens |
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1978 |
Pansselinos Gallery, Thessaloniki Ζ.M. Gallery, Thessaloniki Synchoni Epohi Gallery, Thessaloniki |
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1981 |
He returned to Athens and was appointed as Professor at the School of Fine Arts. As Dean of the School of Fine Arts, during his deanship the School moved to Pireos Street and acquired its own exhibition space, the "factory". |
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1981 |
Desmos Gallery, Athens |
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1987 |
Pierides Gallery, Athens |
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1988 |
He represented Greece at the Biennale of Venice |
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1989 |
"Walls", Municipal Gallery, Thessaloniki "Anamorphoses in three dimensions", 4th International Festival of Patra |
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1996 |
"Gestures" A-D Gallery, Athens "Cinemas" A-D Gallery. Art-Athina 4/96, Athens |
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1997 |
"Mec Art", Month of Photograph, A-D Gallery Athens "Ploes III", P & M. Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros Nikos Kessanlis, Retrospective Exhibition. Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |