George Lappas
George Lappas (* 1950 in Cairo ; † January 24, 2016 in Athens ) was a Greek sculptor , installation artist and professor born in Egypt .
life and work
George Lappas was born in Egypt, but had to leave the country with his family in 1958 during the reign of Gamal Abdel Nasser and came to Athens. He studied psychology at Reed College in Portland between 1969 and 1973 and worked in a psychiatric clinic . With a scholarship from the Waston Foundation , he studied architecture and sculpture in India in 1974. He took courses at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (1995) and studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1976 to 1981 with Yannis Pappas and Yorgos Nicolaidis. With a graduate scholarship, he continued his studies from 1984 to 1985 at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris . He worked and toured France and the United Kingdom until 1986. In 1991 he was awarded a scholarship from the Cartier Foundation in Paris. In 1992 he accepted a professorship at the Athens School of Fine Arts .
Lappas exhibited worldwide, including in 1987 at the Biennale of São Paulo and 1990 at the Biennale di Venezia . In 2017, his works were exhibited posthumously at documenta 14 .
- Works (selection)
- Avakas / Abakus (1983), installation of a spatial arrangement of various stringed black wooden balls held by a metal construction, the position of which can be changed
- Mappemonde (1985–1987), a series of approx. 3000 small metal sculptures, which are combined into various large-scale installations, and a large house-shaped metal sculpture with similarly shaped cut-outs
- Zaries / Dice Works (approx. 1988–1991), together with Giannis Bouteas (* 1941), floor installation in the form of an arrangement of two-dimensional toy dice sculptures with punched-out eyes, exhibited at the 1990 Biennale di Venezia
- In Seurat's Asnieres (1990–1991), installation depicting the figures from Georges Seurat's painting Une baignade à Asnières in a frontal view
- Red Burghers / New Members of the Burghers of Calais (approx. 1991–1993), a line up of body parts of divided red figures, which are held together by metal rods; Work refers to Auguste Rodin's sculpture Die Bürger von Calais
- Theater Seat Cultures , six small cast aluminum benches in tree branches in City-Nord-Park , part of the Hamburg sculpture project Sculpture @ CityNord (2006)
literature
- Konstantin Alexiou: Lappas, Giorgos (George; Georgios) . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 83, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023188-5 , p. 186.
Web links
- artnet George Lappas
- dream idea machine George Lappas
- George Lappas - Working Between Sculpture and Installation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Xippas George Lappas , accessed June 22, 2019. (English)
- ↑ The Sotiris Felios Collection George Lappas , accessed on June 22, 2019. (English)
- ↑ documenta 14, daybook George Lappas , accessed on June 22, 2019.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lappas, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lappas, Giōrgos; Λάππας, Γιώργος |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek sculptor, installation artist and professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 2016 |
| Place of death | Athens |