This series of works contains in equal quantities, all the components of my artistic perception. There is this strong sense of balance a strictly, geometrically structured environment. It’s not only about the colored rectangles but the geometrical movements too.
The element of time exists through this frozen, timeless movement but only as a memory. Looking at the imprint of time on space, one repeats the same questions without getting an answer. The paradox of a recurring eternity….
I am very much taken with space, which I consider to be the main ingredient of our existence. Only space remembers; time forgets. Space can host synchronicity: it is familiar with infinity and the absurd, concepts that “linear” time is not equipped to process.
Of late I have been flirting with the idea of “quantum” art that has the ability to appear simultaneously and function as effectively across different times. I am concerned with transition, the crossing – both as a concept and as motion. I am striving for the return of the unexplained in Art as one of the main ingredients of creation which has been sadly sacrificed at the altar of Newtonian realism and our need for rationalized answers and tangible evidence.
Vassilis Vassiliades
Exhibition / Publications / Awards: Exhibitions 1995 “Un periodo trasitivo di convalescenza rimasto a meta” Gallery “Atelier” Perugia, Italy (group exhibition -catalogue) 1996 “Muteazioni”,Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy (group exhibition -catalogue) 1996 “Muteazioni”,Rocca di Passignano, Italy (group exhibition -catalogue) 1996 Festival Meditterraneo, Conversano , Italy (group exhibition) 1997 House of Arts and Literature Patra Municipality, Greece (group exhibition -catalogue) 1998 “Ekfrasi” Gallery, Larnaca (group
exhibition) 1998 “En Lefko” art school (group exhibition) 2001 “Εn Plein air 1”, Nicosia (group exhibition) 2001 “Pantheon” Gallery, Nicosia (group exhibition) 2001 “The rope climber, the Aquarius and the sniper”, Pantheon Gallery (personal exhibition) 2001 “Εn Plein air 2” Ag. Dimitriou Park, Nicosia (group exhibition) 2002 “Εn Plein air 3” Apothikes, Larnaca (group exhibition) 2004 “Nomadifesta” Public Art Performance (group exhibition) 2005 “Seven Artistis Seven Poets” Partecipating at the Anef Proigoumenou publication (group exhibition) 2006 “Ars Longa” Youth Board of Cyprus, Nicosia (group exhibition) 2008 “ Coma Berenices ” Pantheon Gallery (Personal exhibition) 2012 “Amante”, Pantheon Gallery (Personal exhibition) 2014
Installation during the 2nd Festival of Contemporary music, ARTos Foundation (personal
exhibition) 2014 “Gate”, Ayia Napa International Sculpture Park (Group Exhibition) 2015 “40
Years of invation”, Famagusta Gate (Group Exhibition) 2017 “Burial” European Capital of
Culture – Pafos2017 (Group exhibition – catalogue) 2020 “Il tempo” Casa cava, Matera,
Basilicata Italia (group exhibition) Publications 2000-2010 – “Anef” Art and Literature magazine
of Cyprus From 2000 to 2010 he was a member of the editorial board of the magazine “Anef” of
which he also was a founding member. Several of his articles have been published in “Anef”
during this period. 2010 – 2012 – Avant Guard newspaper From 2010 to 2012 he was a regular
collaborator to the free press newspaper Avant Guard 2014 – Small, deviant thoughts –Carpe
Librum – Athens In 2014 he published his first book “Small, deviant thoughts” Carpe Librum
publications.
Biography: Vassilis Vassiliades was born in Nicosia/ Cyprus in 1972. He studied painting at the Pietro Vannucci Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia, Italy, where he graduated in 1996. He lives in Nicosia and has been working as an art teacher since 2002. He has solo exhibitions and participations in many group exhibitions in Cyprus and abroad. He has lectured at several conferences in universities, cultural associations and art events on issues related to culture. In 2014 he published his first book and since 2016 he is the Curator of the Larnaca Biennale, the only Art Biennale organized in Cyprus. He has collaborated with newspapers and art magazines and hundreds of his articles have been published on various websites.
Artist statement: I would like my work to be an occasion for the viewer to reflect on the value of timelessness in art. I am excited by the idea of proposing a timeless art against an ephemeral art that simply captures snapshots that describe our daily life. Art is timeless because the emotion in front of a work of art has no time. The common element between someone standing in front of Michaelangelo’s David at the piazza della Signoria today and someone looking at the same statue four centuries ago is not that they both look at the same statue, but that they both experience the same emotion. “Emotion remains the most essential experience of Art, and has no time, no season, no duration.”