1996 SIGNED, GREEK ART, PARIS PREKAS, EXHIBITION CATALOG, 1000 COPIES

Description

Paris Prekas was born in Athens in 1926. In 1948, he enrolled at The Athens School of Fine Arts, where he studied under Umbertos Argyros, Dimitris Biskinis and A. Georgiades, graduating in 1952. Thanks to a state scholarship, he subsequently spent six months of postgraduate research in Paris, during which he attempted to capture the essence of the French capital. 

A multifaceted creator, Prekas was involved with painting, sculpture, decorative design and architectural ornamentation, making compositions for the interior and exterior spaces of apartment buildings and other public and community buildings. In painting, he was originally involved with landscapes, but later combined Greek reality with myth and tradition, creating thematic wholes which reflect the spirit of constructivism and abstraction. He has used similar motifs in his sculptures, with a combination of abstract, cubist and expressionist elements.