“Even though I am prompted by specific obsessions as a creative artist, I don’t constantly create. I am in need of long periods of calm because, to me, artistic creation is a battle. Every once in a while, I need to stand back and take a better look at things; otherwise, I become consumed without cause and without essence. Most of the time, the idea, even before actually forming into an idea, hits me at the exact moment when I least expect it. I have taken great pains to avoid being stunned. So, this is more or less how the whole process is kicked off. Only much later do I reach the stage of materialization, after I have first struggled with the work in my mind. But I always leave it up to the objects themselves to decide on the final details. There’s always a spot for randomness in my works.”
“Time has never bothered Vassilis Vassiliades, neither as an individual nor as an artist. He believes that the linear channel in which it moves, traps our perception and aesthetics in the narrow cell of logic, the eternal enemy of creation. In the age of the moving image, Vassilis does not hesitate to state that he remains committed to statics, probably because it is the only hope to create small cracks into the iron curtain of time. Vassilis Vassiliades wants his art to have a “timeless” feeling. In other words, to be difficult for someone to place them on a timeline. He looks for the aesthetic beyond and above trends of times…”
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Η πρώτη Μπιενάλε στη Κύπρο είναι γεγονός και θα πραγματοποιηθεί στη Λάρνακα τον Οκτώβριο και Νοέμβριο 2018. Με αφορμή αυτό το μεγάλο πολιτιστικό γεγονός και ενώ οι προετοιμασίες βρίσκονται σε τελικό στάδιο, κουβεντιάζουμε με τον εικαστικό Βασίλη Βασιλειάδη ο οποίος είναι ο επιμελητής της Μπιενάλε Λάρνακα 2018.
Ο Βασίλης Βασιλειάδης επιμελητής της πρώτης Μπιενάλε που πραγματοποιείται στην Κύπρο μιλά στο Check In
