ATHENS.- Kalfayan Galleries present the solo exhibition of Edouard Sacaillan titled ‘Les Toits de Paris’. The opening will take place today, Thursday, 25th January 2024, 19.00-22.00.

Edouard Sacaillan’s paintings provoke with their honesty and poetry. With his characteristic artistic idiom that explores and constantly experiments with the limits of representation, the internationally renowned painter -based in Athens and Paris - invites the viewers to enter into his own unique dream world, a colorful parade of ‘spectator’s, ‘clowns’, ‘car drivers’ and ‘swimmers’.

At the epicenter of the artist's interest lies, as always, the study of light, a fact that is vividly reflected in the new series titled "Les toits de Paris" (‘The rooftops of Paris’) presented for the first time at Kalfayan Galleries.

Short biography:

Edouard Sacaillan (born 1957, Thessaloniki) lives and works in Paris. He studied at the School of Fine Arts, Athens (1976-1981 with Mytaras, Moralis) and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux- Arts in Paris (1984-87 with Leonardo Cremonini). Awards: 18th Alexandria Biennial Painting Prize (1994); "The Trophies of Color, the Lefranc-Bourgeois National Painting Award", Lefranc-Bourgeois, Cirque d'Hivers, Paris (1992); Prix de l'Académie de Médecine de France (1987). Recent solo exhibitions include: "Edouard Sacaillan – The Viewed: Paintings from The Sotiris Felios Collection", The Municipal Art Gallery of Corfu, Greece (2021); "Viewers, Audience, White Horseman, Mob and Herd", Teloglion Art Foundation, Thessaloniki (2020), "Les Spectateurs - Retrospective Édouard Sacaillan", Espace Richaud, Versailles, Paris (2018). Sacaillan has exhibited his work in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad: Center Pompidou, Paris; Belvedere, Vienna; Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; National Gallery and Benaki Museum, Athens; Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki. His works are featured in major private and museum collections in Greece and abroad such as the following: The Louis-Dreyfous Family Collection, New York; Ministère de l'Économie, Paris; Lefranc-Bourgeois, Paris; National Gallery - Alexandros Sundzou Museum, Athens; State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki; National Bank of Greece; Frisira Foundation, Athens; Teloglion Foundation, Thessaloniki; Rhodes Municipal Art Gallery; The Sotiris Felios Collection, Athens; Hellenic Telecommunications Organization, Athens et al.

Since its inception in 1995 Kalfayan Galleries have been a pioneer in the expansion of the contemporary art scene in Greece.

With a particular focus on Greece, the Balkans and the MENAM region, the gallery's roster reflects the unique character of acting as a bridge between Eastern and Western visual culture. The gallery has established a strong international profile globally through a broad spectrum of projects, participations in art fairs and collaborations with galleries, museums, art institutions, curators and artists.

Gallery artists have been featured in numerous internationally acclaimed exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Sharjah Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Gwuangju Biennale, Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Athens Biennale, Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Tampere Triennale among many others. The gallery and represented artists have collaborated with prominent museums and art institutions such as TATE Modern (London), The Drawing Center (New York), The New Museum (New York), Platform Garanti / SALT (Istanbul), Mori Museum (Tokyo), Castello di Rivoli (Turin), Singapore Art Museum, Kunsthalle Wien, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation (Amman), Benaki Museum (Athens), among many others.

Kalfayan Galleries
Edouard Sacaillan: ‘Les toits de Paris’
Opening: Thursday, 25 January 2024, 19:00-22.00
Duration: 25 January – 10 March 2024