Nikos kessanlis biography

1930

Born in Thessaloniki. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Yannis Moralis and at the same time worked in the workshops of N. Nikolaou and Y. Spyropoulos

1947

1st Exhibition in Komotini

1955

He moves to Rome where he embarks on his career in the "tradition of the new". It opposed the figurative tendency of conventional painting, which, during the inter-war years, reproduced the petit-bourgeois notions of "genre" painting and "good taste"

1957

0belisco Gallery, Rome

1958

Montenapoleone Gallery, Ìilan

Numero Gallery, Florence

Auriga Gallery, Bern

1959

Obelisco Gallery. Rome

1960

He settles in Paris where there is a renewed interest in the Dada and the poetics of the art informel. He was an exponent and cï-founder of the "mec-art" movement. His career in art was marked by his attainment of an international language which stood out in the time and the culture in which it evolved, at the same time e