Tassos was born in Arta, Greece. He studied Fine Arts in Athens and Paris, building a practice rooted in painting and drawing. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions and art events across Greece and internationally. He is co-founder of the gallery 3Portes, a space dedicated to contemporary art and artistic exchange. He lives and works in Ioannina.

 

Tassos is a visual artist who has developed his research around the activity of painting. At the heart of his work lies a fundamental question: what remains of the act of creation once the work is complete? Through his tactile operations, he explores the essence of the drawing that led to the creation of a work — not the finished surface, but the living process beneath it.

Keeping the preliminary lines — which should have remained hidden — he reveals the skeleton of his works. These are the marks that painters traditionally erase or cover, the hesitations and corrections that belong to the private world of the studio. By bringing them to light, Tassos transforms the act of painting into an act of excavation.

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Like a "sign hunter", he stalks, seeks and locates the trace of an act of conception that appears between layers of paint. With great care, like an archaeologist, he unearths the slightest indecisive line and the traces of trial and error that relate to the moment when the idea appears — that fragile instant when thought becomes form. His paintings remind us that art should be a free space where boundaries can be broken, where the unfinished and the uncertain are not weaknesses, but the very substance of creation.