- Aris Kalaizis
Aris Kalaizis (born 1966 in
Leipzig ) is a German painter.Early life
Aris Kalaizis grew up, as the son of a Greek political
immigrant , in Leipzig. He began studying art at the "Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst" in 1992, and graduated with distinction in 1997. Subsequently studying to be a master student under Arno Rink, between 1997 and 2000. His greatest individual show, "retrospective of the ten preceding years", took place in the Marburger Art Hall in 2005 under the title "Ungewisse Jagden". In 2007 he presented his firstUSA solo show in the Moti Hasson Gallery inNew York City .Kalaizis is associated with the New Leipzig School. He has lived as a
self-employed painter since 2000 in Leipzig.Works
Kalaizis produces his paintings on the basis of
photograph s often taken in his immediate surroundings, after which he inserts human figures. The often seemingly surreal scenes are a product ofidea s developed in a type of script written by himself. The people who appear in Kalaizis's paintings areamateur performers who have been casted prior to conception of the script, some of whom appear in several paintings and, therefore, infer a predominant story.Notes
*„Der Leipziger Maler Aris Kalaizis“, in: Marburger Forum Jg.6 (2005), Heft 2
*Benjamin Stark: „Arrangeur intensiver Möglichkeiten“, in: Kunst 21, Ausgabe 15/06
*Pressetext zu einer Ausstellung in der Moti Hasson Gallery (New York), 2007Awards/honors
*1997 State scholarship from the german State of Saxony
*2001 Art prize from the "Volks and Raiffeisenbank"
*2005 USA (Columbus, OH) foreign scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Art.
*2007ISCP -Residency, New York City, USALiterature
*Of gradual Reconciliation, catalogue 1997
*Athletik und Sinnmonarchie, catalogue, 2000
*Brancard catalogue, 2003
*Uncertain Pursuits, catalogue, 2005
*Rubbacord, catalogue, 2006
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