Costas Tsoclis
Costas Tsoclis (Greek: Κώστας Τσόκλης; 24 May 1930 is an important Greek visual artist.
Life[edit]
Costas Tsoclis was born in 1930 and passed his childhood years in an Athens. Between the ages of ten and fifteen he lived through the war, the German occupation and the civil war. From fourteen to eighteen he worked, as an assistant to important scenic artists of the cinema. Eighteen years old, he entered the Athens School of Fine Arts. At the age of 24, he began obligatory military service. In those two lost years, however, he did two or three wonderful paintings, he learned Italian, and was awarded a three-year national scholarship that allowed him to leave Greece as a cultural emigrant.[1]
In 1957, he married Fania Kaplanidou and she gave him his only daughter the well known journalist Maya Tsoclis. For eleven years they lived in Rome and Paris consecutively.
Certain art dealers believed in him and mainly Michael and Ileana Sonnabend. Recognition came first in Belgium, Italy and Germany, with exhibitions and articles about his work. In France he made two friends art critic José Pierre and art historian Pierre Restany. In 1971, he left for Berlin where he lived, worked, and exhibited for eighteen years. A DAAD scholarship gave him the opportunity to live and work in Berlin from 1971 to 1972, where he lived with Eleni (his second wife) and his daughter Maya. Afterwards he returned to Paris where he met the renown gallerist and collector Alexandre Iolas.[2] In 1985 he returned to Greece where he is recognized as one of the most important artists to today. In 1986, at the 42th Venice Biennale, he exhibited in the Greek Pavilion the major works "Harpooned Fish" and "The Portraits", characteristic examples of his "Living Painting".[3][4]
In 2010, the Museum[5] that bears his name inaugurated in the island of Tinos. There with Chrysanthi Koutsouraki (the Museum director) every year they curate and exhibit a different period of his work.
Exhibitions[edit]
1967:Sao Paulo, Biennale von São Paulo - Montreal, ΕΧΡΟ 67- Paris, Salon de la jeune peinture, Musée d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1968: Berlin, «Avant-garde griechenland»
1969: Ghent, Richard Foncke Gallery- Cologne, Hake Gallery
1970: Paris, I. Sonnabend Gallery- Milan, Studio Santadrea - Ghent, Richard Foncke Gallery - Brussels, Defacqz Gallery- Cologne, Hake Gallery
1971:Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts - Athens, Goethe Institute - Βerlin,Springer Gallery - Frankfurt, Ursula Lichter Gallery - Cologne, Reckermann Gallery
1972:Ghent, Richard Foncke Gallery - Berlin, Ehemalingen Galerie Des 20 Jahrhunderts - Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle 1972:Stuttgart, «SZENE BERLIN», Wurttembergischer Kunstverein
1973: Athens Gallery Iolas-Zoumboulakis - Paris, Alexandre Iolas Gallery
1974: Bielefeld, Marzona Gallery - Milan, Alexandre Iolas Gallery 1974: Knokke,«4eme Foire d’ Art Actuel»
1975: Salonica, Gallery Z.M.- Athens,Gallery Iolas-Zoumboulakis 1975: London,“Eight Artists, Eight Attitudes, Eight Greeks”,Institute of Contemporary Art (I.C.A.)
1976: Milan, Studio Santandrea - Brussels, New Smith Gallery - Paris, Alexandre Iolas Gallery - St. Paul de Vence, Fondation Maegt, A.R.C.
1977: Αθήνα, Γκαλερί Δεσμός - New York, Iolas- Jackson Cologne, Der Spiegel Gallery - Kassel, Documenta 6
1978: Ύδρα, Γκαλερί Μιράντα - Βerlin, Nothelfer Gallery - Bern, Aktionsgalerie - Βrussels, Gogeime Gallery
1979: Milan, Studio Santandrea - Αθήνα, Γκαλερί Δεσμός
1980: Alessandria, Sala Comunale d’ Arte Contemporanea - Αθήνα, Γκαλερί Μιράντα
1981: Θεσσαλονίκη, Γκαλερί Ζ.Μ. - Αθήνα, Γκαλερί Ωράισμα
1982: Βrussels, Μichel Vokaer Gallery - Brussels, Europalia Grèce, «Palais des beaux Arts»
1986: Costas Tsoclis, Grecia - XLII Esposizione Internationale d' Arte La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Megaron - Citta di Castello, "Αu rendez- vous des amis", Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri 2016: Genii Loci. Greek art from 1930 to today, State museum Manege, Saint Petersburg, Russia Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens 2017: ANTIDORON. The EMST Collection, Museum Fridericianum, Documenta 14, Kassel, 2017: "Variations sur l'origine du monde", Sofronis Arts, Luxembourg 2017: Paphos, «Ten Points of Vision", a pictorial intervention by Costas Tsoclis, "Paphos - European Capital of Culture, 2107".[6]
Publications [7][edit]
Books by Costas Tsoclis[edit]
No walk should go unrewarded
Kastaniotis Publications, 1995
So there it is ...
Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymno 2003
Off you go and complain to God
Kastaniotis Publications, 2009
Books about Costas Tsoclis[edit]
Tsoclis 1960 - 1980, book - object
J. Dypreau, Κ. Geirlandt, J.Pierre Van Tieghem, K. Ruhrberg, Τ.Spiteris, D.Fatouros
SIGMA N. Papadakis Publications, 1977
The adventures of Tsoclis in front of and behind the mirror
José Pierre (trans. Yannis Varveris) publ. Rhodes Gallery, 1967 - re-publ. Amvrosiou OE, 2009
C. Tsoclis, a monograph
E. Petropoulos, C. Tsoclis
ADAM Publications, 1992
Le peintre du paysage, six poèmes pour le paysage de Tsoclis
E. Trichon-Milsani|
Ed. Photographs, Athens 1992
Tsoclis
D. Davvetas
Kastaniotis Publications, 1997
The seas of Tsoclis
E. Trichon-Milsani
Livanis Publications, 2001
The living painting of Costas Tsoclis
K. Koskina
Toubis Publications, 2003
Tsoclis, a monograph
Bruno Corà
ADAM Publications, 2005
Rue des Écouffes
Album of lithographs
Text by Dimitris Analis
publ. Alexander Iolas Gallery, Paris 1973
Anamnissis 71 - 73
Text by Tonis Spiteris
publ. Alexander Iolas Gallery, Paris 1974
Arbre
Texts: I. Petropoulos, José Pierre, C. Cafopoulos, J.Pierre Van Tieghem
publ. Alexander Iolas Gallery, Paris 1983
First catalogue of the COSTAS TSOCLIS MUSEUM
COSTAS TSOCLIS MUSEUM, Tinos 2011- 2014
CATOPTRON- COSTAS TSOCLIS MUSEUM
Tsoclis, you the last lepper, 2012
Catoptron- Costas Tsoclis Museum
"Variations sur l'origine du monde"
Marot, 2017
There is an extensive bibliography on Costas Tsoclis. A host of articles, interviews, exhibition catalogues have been published, and many television and radio broadcasts have been devoted to him.
Painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, constructions, video projections, sound, water, light, mirrors, installations, performances - these for Tsoclis are tools and means which he uses to give expression to his vision of the moment.
In parallel with his work in art, discourse, written or spoken, is for him a mean of expression which completes his artistic and intellectual role.
References[edit]
- ↑ Pierre, José (2009). The adventures of Tsoclis in front of and behind the mirror. Athens: Amvrosiou OE. p. 17. Search this book on
- ↑ Cora, Bruno (2005). Tsoclis, a monograph. Athens: ADAM Publications. Search this book on
- ↑ https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/22306/costas-tsoclis
- ↑ Koskina, Katerina (2003). The living painting of Costas Tsoclis. Athens: Toubis Publications. p. 10. Search this book on
- ↑ http://www.tsoclismuseum.gr/en/
- ↑ http://www.tsoclismuseum.gr/artist/article.php?id=22&lang=en
- ↑ "Tsoclis Museum". http://www.tsoclismuseum.gr. Retrieved 2018-12-06. External link in
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