Jannis Varelas

ABOUT

Jannis Varelas lives and works between Athens, Vienna and Los Angeles.

His work unveils the surprising side of banal elements in everyday life. Playfully fusing abstraction and realistic representation, his paintings explore lived spaces through a myriad of collage-like details.

For the Art Rug Projects collaboration, the artist created a series of rugs, handwoven with silk and wool, which function as reflections of the psychological landscapes. Both the material of the rugs and the production process of an image though knots transfers in a metaphysical way an inner process or working to the real space and time.

BIO

Jannis Varelas [b. 1977 Athens, Greece]. He is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Royal College of Arts in London. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions internationally including Double-Blind, The Breeder, Athens [2021]; Anima I, The Benaki Museum, Athens [2019]; Monster, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens [2017]; New Flags for A New Country / Destroying Elvis, Onassis Cultural Center, Athens [2016]; New Flags for a New Country, The Breeder Gallery, Athens [2015]; Sleep My Little Sheep Sleep, Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, USA [2012].