Ulysse et sirène Christos Kalfas

Christos Kalfas' work explores the language of myths and other narratives of his culture, in juxtaposition with our modernity. Numerous solo exhibitions have followed, at international fairs such as Fiac, Art Basel, Art Brussels, etc.; and in galleries such as Patrice Trigano, galerie LOFT (Paris), Pascal Polar (Brussels), galerie d'Athènes and Lola Nicolas in Greece. The Musée d'Art Moderne in Saint-Étienne is devoting a solo exhibition to his engraved work, as is the Musée Picasso in Antibes.

Artist

Born in 1955 in Eleftheroupolis (northern Greece), Christos Kalfas has been interested in painting and printmaking since his early teens, but it was not until he moved to France in the late 1970s and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Etienne in 1978 that he really began his artistic training.

"I arrived in France with a completely new outlook, a different culture, and I was a little out of touch with art as it was presented in France, it was... a little post-supportsurface, a little conceptual art as it was Frenchized; I think we all started doing figuration because we were trying to create something new."

From 1981 onwards, he took part in various exhibitions and salons, notably in Saint-Etienne, Lyon and Paris, before exhibiting in Europe in the 1990s and returning to present his work in his homeland from the late 1990s and on a more regular basis in the 2000s.

He now lives and works in Paris.