Vassilis Vlastaras is a visual artist and lecturer at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Born in Argos, Greece. Lives and works in Athens, Greece. He started his studies in Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and photography in AKTO Athens. Then he studied graphic design and animation in T.E.I. of Athens, Film direction in the faculty of cinema E. Chatzikos of Athens and painting in Athens School of Fine Arts. Continued his studies acquiring M.Sc. Interactive Multimedia in the University of Westminster of London and mfa in the architectural faculty of Athens titled: Planning-Space-Culture. He creates large-scale site-specific installations and he experiments with various media in painting, drawing, photography, video, real time video and sound performances and computer interactive installations. He has been a member of Platformes since 2002, a collective of art professionals ranking from visual artists to musicians and film makers in Athens. He has taken part in many exhibition projects, solo and group shows in Greece and abroad.

presentations

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"I don't live here anymore", 2008, NEES MERFES GALLERY, ATHENS





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"The Landscapes i met Alexander", ΠLATFORMES space, Athens, 2007



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"pornophony DEMO", ΠLATFORMES space, Athens, 2005



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"Why someone has to tell the truth when to tell lies is more convenient" Nees Morfes, Athens, 2004



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"my relatioship with amnesia", Nees Morfes artgallery, Athens, 2000



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selfportrait I, 1996

 This installation is developed in a two-storied neoclassic building that placed in Athens on Piraeus St. Here the floors communicate with a wooden stair. The ground floor was dyed entirely everywhere with lime. With two cooling instruments the temperature in the space reached in 15oC. In the walls scattered, were placed photographs from the work of restoration of Parthenon. Precisely opposite from the central entry I put a big drawing with pencil that presented Adolph Hitler painting and looking at the spectator. The above floor was very luminous from a window that it had in its centre. It was dyed entirely -windows and doors- green, and all over the place on the floor I threw small square green marbles 15cm X 15cm on which I had painted with oil colours red roses. In the space was heard sound from the whistling of murderer, from the film of Fritz Lang "M".






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KLIMAX 1995

This installation took place in an abandoned industrial space. It is constituted by two big spaces the one above of the other (two-storied building) that communicate with stairs and a balcony, so from the first floor you could see the ground floor.




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 NOSTOS 1993

The installation "NOSTOS“ took place in the basement of the new building of Faculty of Fine Arts of Athens before the work of restoration of the building.






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THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY 26th April-24th May 2008

Kenny Schachter ROVE gallery, Lincoln House33-34 Hoxton Square, London.
www.rovetv.net

Sonia Almeida, Thorbiorn Andersen, Annabel Emson, Elinor Evans, Maria Glyka, Nick Goss, Gereon Krebber,
Carali McCall
, Mathew Murphy, Vassilis Vlastaras
Architecturally curated by:
DaeWha Kang, Annabel Emson