Pavlos - Lot 117

Pavlos Chirossophos 48 pages, paperback, dust jacket Numbered 37 from an edition of 285 + current edition "L'art en écrit", 2006 Editions Janninck Format: 125 x 210 mm Attached is a paper volume cut and pasted onto a poster. Note: Born in 1930 in Filiatra, in the southern Peloponnese, Pavlos arrived in Paris in 1958 after studying at the Beaux-Arts in Athens. In 1964, he exhibited at Galerie J, the showcase and laboratory of the Nouveau Réalisme movement. He later moved to the Ileana Sonnabend gallery in 1968 and to the Stadler gallery in Paris in 1971. From 1973, he exhibited in Alexandre Iolas' galleries in Paris, Geneva, Milan and Athens. His main gallery became that of Guy Pieters in Knokke-le-Zoute and Saint-Paul de Vence. In 1980, he represented Greece at the Venice Biennale. Subsequently, his work appeared in the world's leading museums, including New York's MOMA, the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris and the Centre Georges Pompidou. He died in Athens in 2019. In this text, Pavlos looks back on his arrival in Paris in the late 1950s, his encounter with Pierre Restany and the Nouveaux Réalistes, and the sources of his work. The work in the first edition, a unique signed piece (19.2 x 11.7 cm), represents a paper volume cut and pasted onto a poster.