Lot 48: VLASSIS CANIARIS (1928-2011) L’emigrant, 1972 leather, plastic, paper

VLASSIS CANIARIS (1928-2011) L’emigrant, 1972 leather, plastic, paper, cotton and string 13 x 30 x 14 cm.

Provenance Galerie Bama, Paris. Private collection, France. Vlassis Caniaris was insider and outsider, observer and participant, artist and citizen, all at once: a humanist who grasped the world in all its nuances and complexities. This sensibility is most evident in his Gastarbeiter-Fremdarbeiter (Emigrants) series, 1971-76, first presented in 1975 while the Greekborn artist was in Germany on a German Academic Exchange Service scholarship. Empathizing with the experience of itinerants came easily to Caniaris: He left Greece in 1956 and moved from Rome to Paris to Berlin before returning to Athens nineteen years later.1 1. Bailey. S, Vlassis Caniaris: Kadel Willborn, Artforum International, May 2015, Vol. 53 Issue 9. THE GREEK SALE