Alexandros Vasmoulakis

Los Angeles

LeBasse Projects currently shows Figures – new works by muralist and installation artist, Alexandros Vasmoulakis. The eponymous series comprises of compelling figural work partly inspired by the tradition of portraiture.

Vasmoulakis’ paintings contain many layers—physically, in terms of their thick impasto and textural buildup of paint, and also metaphorically. At the outset, the figures are smiling, a nod to the traditional purpose of portraiture as a showcase of one’s ideal or idealized comportment. However, the grinning and laughing expressions are menacingly exaggerated and recall the distorted visages of tortured souls in Francis Bacon’s deeply psychological portraits and self-portraits. In the case of Vasmoulakis’ personas, the turmoil does not come from an inner psyche, but from the outside influences of contemporary society, consumer culture and the media machine as the figures vapidly laugh, pose and posture.

Alexandros Vasmoulakis

LeBasse Projects

February 9 – February 23, 2013
6023 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
USA

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