Aris Kalaizis

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Aris Kalaizis (* 1966 in Leipzig ) is a figurative painter , German-Greek origin. He is assigned to the New Leipzig School . Art award winner of the German Volks- and Raiffeisenbanken.

Life

Aris Kalaizis grew up as the son of Greek emigrants in Leipzig. His parents came to Leipzig as children in 1949 as a result of the Greek civil war (1946–1949).

After an apprenticeship as an offset printer and retraining as a photo laboratory assistant , he began studying painting at the Academy of Graphics and Book Art with Arno Rink and his assistant Neo Rauch in 1992 , which he graduated with honors in 1997. From 1997 to 2000 he completed his master class with Arno Rink.

The floating / oil on canvas / 210 × 300 cm / 2018

A first comprehensive and public solo exhibition took place in 2005 at the Marburger Kunstverein . In 2007 he presented his first USA solo show in New York as part of a work grant . He became known to an international audience in 2010 through his participation in the Biennale di Venezia (12th Mostra Internazionale di Architettura) and in 2011 through his participation in the 4th Triennial in the Guangdong Museum in Guangzhou (China). The international triennial, which took place in the Guangdong Museum of Art, granted Kalaizis a larger individual room in which eight large-format pictures were presented.

A somewhat unusual exhibition, however, took place in 2011 under the title “The Double View” in the Greiz Castle Museum, where Kalaizis put historical rooms he found in a contemporary context for the first time. In 2014 a comprehensive museum tour through Germany, Austria and the Netherlands took place.

In the years 2014/15 he painted the painting The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew or The Double Martyrdom, his largest picture to date. It was located in the Imperial Cathedral of St. Bartholomew in Frankfurt am Main.

In 2018, the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, based in his native city, acquired a painting by Kalaizis for the first time with the large-format painting "Die Schwebende" (2018).

In addition to his professor, Arno Rink, who supervised him throughout his studies, Aris Kalaizis was particularly influenced by Jusepe de Ribera and Francis Bacon in his younger years . However, his painting has changed since then and has an unmistakable style. He always works on individual images, which often touch the spheres of magic and the grotesque. In the center of his pictures, however, is always the person in a strongly existentialist sense. References to religious themes, which suggest an endeavor to regain mysticism , are also unmistakable. In 2018, at the request of Museum Angerlehner , Aris Kalaizis published an art-theoretical text that clarifies his views on art.

Since 2000 he has been living as a freelance painter in Leipzig. His pictures can be found in several domestic and foreign art collections.

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Today, Kalaizis constructs his paintings , mostly evoked from dreams , with the help of elaborate stagings or structures that he creates at the location and at the end of which several photographs are initially taken . The scenes in his pictures, which sometimes seem surreal, are developed from ideas that Kalaizis records in the manner of a script. At the end of this creation process, pictorial dream images of inner possible worlds emerge.

Make Believe / oil on wood / 59 × 80 cm / 2009

At the beginning of the work, however, there is always the dream that evokes the inner image or ideal. Once the interior image is in place, he builds a realistic model in his studio or looks for an external condition in reality, usually a background that comes closest to his 'desired background'. Once that external condition is found, he takes a photo of this place. This self-made photo mostly serves as the basis for the background layer. What follows is a meditative, contemplative process in which he thinks about what could happen in front of / with this scene. This working approach fundamentally differentiates Kalaizis from the photorealists , as they do not challenge a new reality.

His defining structural principle is antithetics , whereby the painterly positioning achieved - with the aim of a nuanced renewed project - is to be called into question. In a time-consuming process, in which usually no more than five pictures are painted per year, parallel drafts of the existing ones are created. However, since these paintings cannot be assigned to either the surreal or the real, the American art historian, Carol Strickland , developed the term Sottorealism in relation to Kalaizis' world of images .

“Bursting with ambiguity, his pictures promise to reveal what they are hiding. But even on closer examination, their multiple layers of meaning are inexhaustible. Perhaps a new term for the description of his work is more telling than the terms realism or surrealism . Instead of sur , which means above or above , Sottorealism is more appropriate here. Sotto ( below or below ) indicates the secrets hidden in a color that are buried under the surface of history. "

What mostly emerges are images that cause a certain tumult, a certain disturbance of the inner balance. Life and death, dream and reality flow strangely into one another. The movable seems frozen and the rigid seems uncannily moved. Often the images are charged with a strange vehemence in which everything is always at the same time: magic, grace, sweetness and depth. Kalaizis, whose pictures revolve around the subject areas of reality and imagination, often mentions the surrealist André Masson in discussions , who once said: “There is nothing more fantastic than reality”.

Work process

Characteristic of the work process of the painter Aris Kalaizis are the elaborate structures that arise in advance of his picture projects. They serve to get closer to the target image, which is then implemented painterly on the canvas. Paul-Henri Campbell wrote: "Aris Kalaizis (walks through) several work stages in finding the image: 1) Inner emptiness, which makes one receptive to an image; 2) the patience to rediscover this numinous sensation in real places, objects and figures; 3) the Construction of this in-picture in the profane reality of the studio or in the great outdoors; 4) the photographic documentation of these elaborate structures, which often involve whole cohorts of craftsmen, extras and professional actors; 5) design of the canvas form of the picture on the basis of these photo documents. " After completing this preliminary work, Kalaizis realizes the picture, mostly painted in oil, in his studio in Leipzig. This process, which is unusual for a painter, is also a unique selling point in contemporary painting.

Superstructures for the picture "Return of a Farewell" (2010) in Aris Kalaizis' Leipzig studio

The above series documents the structure of the oil painting "Return of a Farewell", which forms the end of the series. In order to be able to implement the models, additional workers are often required, for example to lay floors, set up temporary walls and wallpaper, but also actors, lighting technicians or costume designers. Props are diverse, for example the root plate of a tree, aircraft turbines, living animals and much more

Awards

  • 1997 State scholarship from the Free State of Saxony
  • 2001 Art Prize of the German Volks- and Raiffeisenbanken
  • 2005 USA (Columbus / OH) foreign scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Art
  • 2007 International Studio & Curatorial Program-Scholarship, New York City, USA
  • 2016 China Working Scholarship, Beijing

Monographs

  • Of rash reconciliations . Catalog. Artco-Verlag, Leipzig 1997, Helmuth Stephan (Hrsg.) (German / English) ISBN 3-9805681-2-1
  • Athletics and the monarchy of meaning . Catalog, Torsten Reiter (Ed.) Maerzgalerie, Leipzig 2000 (German / English)
  • Brancard . Catalog, Maerzgalerie, Leipzig 2003, (German / English) ISBN 3-9809215-0-6
  • Uncertain hunts . Catalog, Marburg / Leipzig, 2005 (German / English)
  • Rubbacord . Catalog, Kerber-Verlag, Bielefeld / Leipzig 2006, (German / English) ISBN 3-938025-81-6
  • Making Sky . Monograph with catalog raisonné (1995–2009). Hirmer-Verlag, Munich 2009, (German / English) ISBN 978-3-7774-9065-6
  • The double look . Catalog, exhibition Schlossmuseum Greiz 2011, ISBN 978-3-9814378-0-5
  • 4th Guangzhou Triennial . Catalog, exhibition Guangdong Museum of Art (China), Guangzhou 2011, (Chinese / English) ISBN 978-7-5362-4761-1
  • Sottorealism . Large format monograph with catalog raisonné (1994–2014). Paul-Henri Campbell (Ed.) Imhof-Verlag, Petersberg, (German / English) ISBN 978-3-86568-990-0

Film documentaries

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1997 »On hasty reconciliations« ARTCO Gallery Leipzig
  • 1999 "Series". Gallery Joshua Goldblum. Cincinnati . United States
  • 2000 "Athletics and the Monarchy of Meaning". maerzgalerie. Leipzig
  • 2001 retrospective at the Hellenic Foundation for Culture Berlin
  • 2002 Art Prize of the German Volksbanks and Raiffeisenbanks, art works. Berlin
  • 2002 »Painting on a Quiet Afternoon«. maerzaffairs project space. Leipzig
  • 2002–03 Art Prize from the German Volksbanks and Raiffeisenbanks. Exhibition tour Germany
  • 2003 »Brancard«. quicksilver gallery. Berlin
  • 2004 »two-dimensional«. Art gallery of the Sparkasse Leipzig
  • 2004 »Day and Night Pictures«. maerzgalerie. Leipzig
  • 2004 »The Eleventh«. 11th annual Leipzig exhibition
  • 2004 »five«. maerzgalerie Leipzig
  • 2005 »Uncertain Hunts«. Marburg Art Gallery
  • 2005 »Erasmus Schröter & Aris Kalaizis: Men, Women, Dogs«. Villa Oppenheim. Berlin
  • 2006 »Rubbacord«. maerzgalerie Leipzig
  • 2006 »Back to the figure«. HYPO - art gallery. Munich
  • 2006 »(Not) a time for paradises«. City Museum Bautzen
  • 2007 »Gettersby«. Moti Hasson Gallery. New York City, USA
  • 2007 »More of the same«. maerzgalerie Leipzig
  • 2009 "BAS DE CUER". maerzgalerie Leipzig
  • 2009 »maerzflimmern«. maerzgalerie. Berlin
  • 2009 "See how the sea honors us with silence". maerzgalerie Leipzig
  • 2009 »Making Sky«. maerzgalerie. Berlin
  • 2010 »10 years, 10 artists«. Marburg Art Gallery
  • 2010 "The Bearable Lightness of Being". La Biennale di Venezia. Venice
  • 2010 "The Silent Revolution". Taidemuseo Helsinki. Kerava GK
  • 2011 »Christoph Worringer | Aris Kalaizis «. Philara collection . Dusseldorf
  • 2011 »The double look«. Greiz Castle Museum
  • 2011 »Welcome (new) Home!«. maerzgalerie. Berlin
  • 2011 »Parallel Worlds II«. maerzgalerie. Berlin
  • 2011 »4. Guangzhou Triennial «. Guangdong Art Museum. People's Republic of China
  • 2012 »Parallel Worlds«. Schwäbisch Hall Art Association
  • 2012 »Blickwechsel«. State Museum Innsbruck
  • 2012 »Come into the open«. maerzgalerie Leipzig
  • 2013 »Big opening show«. Museum Angerlehner, Wels , Austria
  • 2014 »Sottorealism«. Cathedral Museum Frankfurt am Main
  • 2014 »Strange Realities«. Museum Angerlehner, Wels, Austria
  • 2014 »Wonderful«. Drents Museum Assen Netherlands
  • 2014 »The Silence of the Dove«. Celle Castle
  • 2015 »The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew or the Double Martyrdom«. A single image presentation at the Frankfurt Cathedral Museum
  • 2015 »Aris Kalaizis and Leipziger«. Gallery Schloss Parz Grieskirchen Austria
  • 2015 »The fantastic line. Art from Leipzig «. Art Association "Talstrasse" , Halle (Saale)
  • 2016 »Revelation. Leipzig artists and religion «. Christian Art Foundation , Wittenberg
  • 2017 »Swan song to the mysterious«. Zerp. Rotterdam Netherlands
  • 2017 »Immanence«. Pictura. Groningen Netherlands
  • 2017 "Life as a Vision". Enactment Gallery. Traunkirchen Austria
  • 2017 »Che Resta | What remains". (1) Museo Palazzo Ducale. Mantua Italy
  • 2018 »Che Resta | What remains". (2) Museo Civico. Monferrato Italy
  • 2018 »mdbk meets G2«. Museum of fine arts. Leipzig
  • 2019 »Masterpiece!«. Center for Current Art. Berlin
  • 2019 "Point of No Return". Museum of fine arts. Leipzig
  • 2020 "In the studio". Kunsthalle der Sparkasse. Leipzig

Interviews

Web links

Commons : Aris Kalaizis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the land of the hanging heads . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from March 20, 2005.
  2. ↑ Bad for artists, good for art . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from August 11, 2009, p. 9.
  3. ↑ "a strikingly original figurative painter" . Online on Christian Science Monitor : East German Expressionism . English. September 2007. Online at www.csmonitor.com.
  4. ^ Painter of the Possible . In: Die Welt from August 21, 2009.
  5. ↑ https://www.kalaizis.com/de/werke/#&gid=1&pid=1
  6. ↑ Magnet Leipzig . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from May 2005.
  7. ↑ https://www.museum-angerlehner.at/b/einige-gedanken-zur-kunst-von-aris-kalaizis
  8. ↑ Maerzgalerie shows Aris Kalaizis in Leipzig and Berlin . In: Die Welt from May 30, 2009.
  9. ↑ Leipzig views in Düsseldorf . In: Rheinische Post. Online at nachrichten.rp-online.de from January 20, 2011.
  10. ↑ a b simulated reality . In: Neues Deutschland from June 12, 2009. Online at www.neues-deutschland.de.
  11. ↑ March flicker in April . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung of April 3, 2010, p. 12.
  12. ↑ The power of images . In: Quer. Zeitschrift für Architektur, No. 1/2013, p. 7.
  13. ↑ The Leipzig painter Aris Kalaizis ( Memento from February 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Marburger Forum , vol. 6 (2005), issue 2
  14. ↑ arranger of intensive possibilities . In: Art 21. The magazine for contemporary art No. 15 from April 2006, pp. 15–23.
  15. ↑ The free space . In: Tagesspiegel , September 11, 2011, p. 1.
  16. ^ Haller Tagblatt : Surreal scenes, large formats. Ilkka Halso and Aris Kalaizis in the Haller Galerie on the market. Photos and painting. February 7, 2012, p. 21.
  17. ↑ from: Aris Kalaizis in conversation with Carol Strickland . Catalog 'Rubbacord', Kerber-Verlag, p. 12.
  18. ↑ Recent Works ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . English. Homepage www.kalaizis.com.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kalaizis.com
  19. ↑ Feuilleton: BMW Art Calendar . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from 8./9. December 2012, p. 16.
  20. ^ Exhibition talk Aris Kalaizis with Max Lorenzen, Marburg 2007.
  21. ^ Paul-Henri Campbell: Notes on a painterly work . Ostragehege , issue 1/2013, No. 69, p. 11.
  22. ↑ Brancard . Catalog, Maerzgalerie, Leipzig 2003 pp. 3–5.
  23. ↑ A picture by Berkel. Leipzig painter brought cinema star from the big to the small screen . In: Bild newspaper from February 25, 2011.
  24. ↑ No interpretation guidelines. The Leipzig artist Aris Kalaizis paints the actors Christian Berkel and Andrea Sawatzki . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from September 21, 2011.
  25. ↑ My Berlin. At the Berlinale, actor Christian Berkel reveals what not to be missed in his hometown . In: Cosmopolitan , February 2011.
  26. ↑ I am not an artist - I am a painter! Why Aris Kalaizis loves the smell and melt of color . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from February 26, 2011, p. 6.
  27. ↑ Kalaizis' refrigeration researchers report "From hasty reconciliations" . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from October 4, 1997.
  28. ↑ Realism of the Depth. Works by the Leipzig painter Aris Kalaizis in Berlin . In: Neues Deutschland from November 4, 2003.
  29. ↑ Art that will be remembered . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from January 10, 2005, p. 10.
  30. ↑ Today the Marburger Kunstverein opens the exhibition "Unknown Hunts" by Aris Kalaizis . In: Oberhessische Presse from March 18, 2005.
  31. ^ Christian Science Monitor: East German Expressionism . English. September 2007.
  32. ^ Look around the Berlin galleries . In: taz of May 13, 2009, p. 26.
  33. ↑ a b Ease and Longing: Leipziger at the Architecture Biennale in Venice . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung from August 31, 2010.
  34. ↑ The double look. Modern art in the historical museum - Castle occupations by Aris Kalaizis in Greiz . In: Ostthüringer Zeitung of March 26, 2011.
  35. ↑ An angel falls down. The Leipzig artist Aris Kalaizis in Greiz . In: Neues Deutschland from June 14, 2011, p. 16.
  36. ↑ Breaking with expectations . In: Allgemeiner Anzeiger of March 30, 2011, p. 1.
  37. ↑ Parallel Worlds . In: Der Spiegel , No. 37/2011, p. 173.
  38. ↑ Philara: Two painters of figuration . In: Rheinische Post of February 3, 2011, p. 5.
personal data
SURNAME Kalaizis, Aris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Καλαϊζής, Άρης (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Greek painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig