Edouard Sacaillan was born in Thessaloniki in 1957 and began to paint very young despite the adversity. His work was exhibited several times in Athens and he received the 18th Alexandria Art Bienniale prize.
The paintings of this Greek artist of Armenian origin could be classified within the framework of a demonstrative expressionism. The work of Edouard Sacaillan is charged with cries and silences, colors and darkness, images and shocks and the titles of the Artworks, often inscribed in the canvas, another Ariadne’s thread, at the end unleash the knots of a machinery that is in fact an analytical, moral and cruel enigma, seeking in the dream the truth that is hidden from it .
PAINTINGS
Spectateurs, 2015
acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
l’Attente, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
151 x 133 cm
Centenaire de l’aviation, 2002
Acrylic on canvas
78 x 117,5 cm
Face Aux Spectateurs, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 80 cm
Combat de Chiens, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
99,5 x 80 cm
Spectral, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
97 x 146cm
Les Cibles, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
97 x 146 cm
La Réunion de Chiens, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
90 x 120 cm
Entres Autres, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
146 x 97 cm
L’Acteur et les Spectateurs, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
144 x 96 cm
Les Formats du Peintre, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
146 x 97 cm
Embouteillages, 2011
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 100 cm
EDUCATION
1984-1987 – Vikatos Scholarship at ENSB-A, Paris (studio of Cremonini).
1976-1981 – Athens School of Fine Arts, (studios of Mytaras and Moralis)
AWARDS
1994 – Painting Award of the 18th Biennale of Alexandria.
1992 – “The Trophies of Colour, the Lefranc-Bourgeois National Award for Painting”, Lefranc-Bourgeois, Cirque d’Hivers, Paris.
1987 – Prix de l’ Académie de Médicine de France.
EXPOSITIONS
2018 – Rétrospective Edouard Sacaillan “Les spectateurs” espace Richaud-Versailles, organized by the galerie Minslky
2017 – Galerie Minsky, Paris
2015 – Galerie Morfi, Limassol (Chypre)
2013 – Galerie Lefor Openo, Paris
2013 – Kalfayan Galleries, Athènes
2011 – Affordable Art Fair, Galerie Minsky, Νew York
2009 – Sacaillan. Le regard du peintre, musée Frissiras, Athènes
2008 – “Viewers”, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.
2008 – Vienna fair 2008, Solo show, Kalfayan Galleries (Athens-Thessaloniki).
2007 – “Utopias of Paradise”, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.
2006 – “Landscapes and People”, Ellinogermaniki Agogi, Athens.
2005 – “Dialogues 2005”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.
“Spaces with People”, Foundation of Thracian Art & Tradition in
collaboration with Kalfayan Galleries (Athens – Thessaloniki).
Omikron Gallery, Nicosia.
Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.
2004 – Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.
2003 – Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens.
2002 – Galerie Lefor Openo, Paris.
2001 – Galerie Le Point, Monte Carlo
1999 – “The Crowd and the Child”, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens.
1997 – Terracotta Art Gallery, Thessaloniki.
Amimoni Gallery, Ioannina.
1996 – Milonogianni Gallery, Crete.
“Le visage et la foule”, Gallerie Dionne, Paris.
1995 – Chrysa Gallery, Katerini.
Polyedro Gallery, Patra.
1993 – “The Crowd and the Child”, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens.
1991 – Galerie Arichi, Paris.
Terracotta Art Gallery, Thessaloniki.
1990 – Galerie Eonnet-Dupuy, Paris.
Municipal Gallery of Kalamata, Kalamata.
Iraklio Gallery, Crete.
Tiryns Gallery, Karditsa.
1989 – Agathi Gallery, Athens.
1988 – Ora Gallery, Athens.
1984 – Ora Gallery, Athens.
1983
Municipal Gallery of Vouliagmeni, Athens.
2019 – Iraklion Basilique de Saint Marc, Crète ” The collector’s Eye : The Sotiris Felios Collection” par Luisa Karapidaki
2013 – Art Athina, Kalfayan Galleries, Αthènes
2012 – Gold, Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum, Vienne (commissaire : Thomas Zaunschirm
2011 – Blanc et noir, musée Frissiras, Αthènes
2010 – Vérité nue, musée Frissiras, Αthènes
2009 – Le regard du temps – collection Sotiris Felios, musée Benaki, Αthènes
2009 – 35 artistes pour la démocratie, Ζappéion Megaron, Αthènes
2009 – Art Dubai, Kalfayan Galleries, Dubaï
2009 – Art Athina, Kalfayan Galleries, Athènes
2008 – Art Dubai 2008, Kalfayan Galleries (Athens-Thessaloniki).
2007 – “Art Contemporain d’ Arménie”, Orangerie du Luxembourg, Musée d’ Art Moderne d’ Arménie , Paris.
Visual Arts in Greece II, ‘Artistic Innovation. Semiotics of its Conditions in the
New Era’, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki.
Viennafair, Kalfayan Galleries, Vienna.
2006 – Artissima, Kalfayan Galleries, Turin.
“Once upon a time there was Penelope Delta”, Athens College, Athens.
“Anatomy of a Dream”, Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.
“Athens Voice: Art on the Front Page II”, Benaki Museum, Athens.
“Cow Parade”, Athens
2005 – “Dialogues 2005”, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and
Kalfayan Galleries, Thessaloniki.
Art Athina, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens.
“Ploes XI, In Arte Veritas”, P. and M. Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros.
2004 – “The Suffering Body”, Centre of Contemporary Art, Rethymnon.
“In our image, after our likeness”, Frissiras Museum, Athens.
2002 – “Voyageur sans boussole: Sur les traces de Dubuffet”, (curated by
Eurydice Trichon), Museum of Modern Art, Centre G. Pompidou, Paris.
Art Paris, Lefor Openo, Paris.
2001 – Salon de Mai, Paris.
2000 – Salon de Mai, Paris.
“2000 tins”, Lithographer of Pireaus Street, Athens
1998 – “Contemporary Greek Art – Three Generations”, Museum of Art, Tel Aviv,
Israel and National Gallery of Athens, Athens.
“Contemporary Art, Three Generations” National Gallery of Art, Athens.
1997 – ”Vis à vis”, Fondation Coprim, Musée Louviers, France.
1996 – ‘Vis à vis”, Fondation Coprim, Paris.
1995 – ”L’éveil artistique en jeu”, Fondation Coprim, Paris.
Bouvet Laduday Gallery, Lefranc-Bourgeois, Le Mans-Saumur, France.
1994 – “The Collection of V. Frissiras”, Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki, and
Vellides Foundation.
18th Biennale of Alexandria, Painting Award.
FIAC, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Paris.
1993 – “The Child in Modern Greek Art”, National Gallery, Athens.
“The Collection of V. Frissiras”, Chania, Crete.
1992 – “The Collection of V. Frissiras”, Byzantine Museum, Athens.
“The Collection of V. Frissiras”, Hydra Art Gallery.
“The Collection of V. Frissiras”, Rhodes Art Gallery.
“The Trophies of Color, the Lefranc-Bourgeois National Award for
Painting”, Lefranc-Bourgeois, Cirque d’Hivers, Paris.
1991 – “Greek Artists from the Collection of V. Frissiras”, Pierides Art Gallery and Municipal Gallery of Athens.
1990 – “With reference to Bouzianis”, Municipal Gallery of Athens.
1988 – “Greek Painting 1968-1988”, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the National
Gallery of Art, Brussels.
“Collection of the National Bank, 1975-1987”, National Gallery, Athens.
“Encounters-Comparisons of 33 Artists”, Municipal Gallery of Athens.
1987 – “Tradition and the Avant Garde in Greece”, Pierides Art Gallery
(Chrysanthos Christou), Kiosk 7, International Trade Fair, Thessaloniki.
“Studio of Cremonini”, Tokyo School of Fine Arts.
Pan-Hellenic Exhibition, Zappeion Hall, Athens.
ENSB-A, Beaux Arts, Paris.
1986 – Salon de Mai, Paris.
“Painting”, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Romania.
1985
“Young Greek Artists”, Collection of the Vorres Museum, Athens.
“Memories-Metamorphoses-Quests”, National Gallery, Athens.