Costas Tsoclis
Costas Tsoclis (* 1930 in Athens ) is a Greek painter and multimedia artist.
life and work
Tsoclis was born in Athens in 1930. He studied from 1948 to 1954 at the Athens School of Fine Arts with Yannis Moralis . With a grant from the State Scholarships Foundation , he lived in Rome from 1957 to 1960 . Tsoclis lived in Paris until 1970 . From 1971 to 1972 he spent in Berlin on a DAAD scholarship . He lived in Paris and Athens until 1983, only to return to his Greek homeland in 1984.
Costas Tsoclis became internationally known with the series objects-situations , which he produced between 1967 and 1972, and later with three-dimensional paintings and living paintings in which videos are projected onto painted canvas.
The Costas Tsoclis Museum on Tinos opened in 2011.
Art in public space
- 2000 Ethnikis Amynis metro station in Athens
- 1988 forecourt of the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions (selection)
- 2012 Tsoclis the last leper , Spinalonga Greece
- 2001 The Unknown Tsoclis Frissiras Museum, Athens
- 2001 Costas Tsoclis - A Retrospective National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
- 2000 Liturgia - Costas Tsoclis Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Florence , Italy
- 1983 Costas Tsoclis - Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
- 1972 Costas Tsoclis - Objects-Situations 1967-1972 - Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf
Group exhibitions (selection)
- 2012 Face to Face: The artists and the collector - Frissiras Museum, Athens
- 2010 Isole mai Trovate - Islands never found State Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki) , Thessaloniki
- 2010 I don't even know what art is - insights into a private MARTa Herford collection , Herford
- 2005 The Cyclades through the lens of 20 contemporary Greek artists Museum of Cycladic Art , Athens
- 2005 The Art of Greece meets China Platform China Contemporary Art Institute Beijing
- 2003 Gelijk het leven is Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst , Ghent Belgium
- 1999 P + P = D: new (greek) art from the seventies and eighties - DESTE - Center for Contemporary Art, Athens
- 1986 42nd Venice Biennale with Christos Karas
- 1977 documenta 6 , Documenta, Kassel
- 1974 multiples. An attempt to depict the development of the edition object Neuer Berliner Kunstverein , Berlin
- 1965 4th Biennale de Paris Paris, France
- 1965 São Paulo Biennial , São Paulo Brazil
Catalogs
- Costas Tsoclis, Objects-Situations 1967–1972,
- Gallery of the 20th Century, Berlin 1972,
- Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf 1972
Individual evidence
- ↑ Polar user files (PDF; 104 kB) accessed on July 21, 2013
- ↑ Macedonian Museum: Tsoclis Costas ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on July 21, 2013
- ^ The artist: Costas Tsoclis , accessed July 21, 2013.
- ^ Bonhams , accessed July 21, 2013.
- ↑ Costas Tsoclis Museum ( Memento from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.2 MB) accessed on July 21, 2013
- ^ Costas Tsoclis Museum opens on Tinos , accessed July 21, 2013.
- ↑ GRReporter: Now Spinalonga ... ( Memento from June 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on July 21, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tsoclis, Costas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tsoclis, Kostas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens |