Vasilis Asimakopolous

Vasilis Asimakopoulos work is preoccupied mainly with a fantastical world in a post-apocalyptic time. This vision of the future is used as a tableau upon which the artist projects mankinds anomalies as a being and the side effects of his existence in the present. Events and facts that trouble our humanity are stressed or underlined with a wry smile and salut. The memory of mans footprint in this world carries on as an ironic delirium, the possible artistic manifestations of which is Asimakopoulos main concern. Life after destruction, in all its complexity, but in a world where the natural is synthetic. The rebooting of the order of things in a place where the paradox manifests itself into normality. Vasilis has exhibited with Beers.Lambert Contemporary at the London Art Fair / [Vestiges] in January 2012, as well as in a group exhibition in February 2012, [When We Dead Awaken]. VASILIS ASIMAKOPOLOUS (b. 1982, Greece) recent solo exhibitions include Dunes of Aspartame, Gallerie Bannwarth, Paris (2011); Sorbic Acid, Umbrella Gallery, Leeds, (2010); and an forthcoming solo exhibition with Beers.Lambert in 2012. Group exhibitions include RCA Show, Royal College of Art, London (2011); Mostyn Open, Llandudno, Wales (2011); Creekside Open, Deptford X, London, (2011); Gloom'less, Gallerie Bannwarth, Paris (2010); and Designers Of The Future, Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2010). He is recipient of the Mostyn Open Award 2010; and received a 2009 Fellow (bursary) from the Royal British Society of Sculptors in London. He is a 2011 sculpture graduate from London's Royal College of Art; he lives and works in London, England and Athens, Greece.