Video: Gothic Greek street art in the style of Alexandros Vasmoulakis (Alexandros Vasmoulakis)
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The first thought upon seeing the works of the young Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis is "I wonder what he smokes and where does he get it?" However, such doping is not at all required for a talented Athenian in order to decorate the streets of his hometown with such strange and outlandish murals. According to the artist, his main inspirations are healthy sex and good sleep.
Alexandros works in the street art style, but this is not the graffiti we are used to. The artist's eerie characters, as if descended from horror cartoons, are, in fact, a composite portrait, a kind of hodgepodge of fragments of faces seen by the author on the street, on TV, in magazines or books. Therefore, the painted "freaks" cannot boast of being sympathetic and proportional, and sometimes they even frighten with a brutal expression on their faces, and indeed the image as a whole. But this is the "highlight" of the street art of Alexandros Vasmulakis - to create a character with a universal face that would not express certain emotions and moods.
Vasmulakis's gothic characters are neither kind nor evil, not funny and not sad, although one can doubt the latter - they are detached and imperturbable. By the way, last year Alexandros held the first "solo" exhibition in Greece. But earlier he was hiding under the pseudonym zap51 and his personal website with a gallery of all paintings and installations without exception is called that way. And when it became clear that the Greek authorities did not intend to persecute the artist for his non-standard gloomy wall art decorating completed and unfinished buildings, garages, gates and fences of Athens, Vasmoulakis stopped hiding under a fictitious name.
In addition to creativity in the style of street art, the artist is good at painting and digital drawing, as well as installations that are as strange as all other creativity. Works of 29-year-old Alexandros Vasmoulakis (Alexandros Vasmoulakis) flaunt not only on the streets of Athens, but also in large art salons in London, Beijing, Paris …
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