Tassis Yianakos
Tasos Giannakopoulos aka Tassis Yianakos is an architect based in Athens, Greece. He received his diploma from the University of Patras, and his post-graduate masters in architecture (M. Arch. II 19’) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he studied with a full scholarship.
Tassis’ texts and publications have been published in the Periphery Journal of Harvard Divinity School, and his art performance has taken place at Kirkland Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Currently, Tassis works at Deca Architecture and writes about design in the digital magazine Design Society. He lives and works in Athens as an architect and painter.
EXPERIENCE
Deca Architecture, Arriola & Fiol
EDUCATION
Diploma of Architecture from University of Patras (Greece) and M.Arch II from Harvard Graduate School of Design
“When I first started painting, without any formal training besides the eyes of the architect, copying was my go-to technique. I studied the Masters and as all masters do from every craft, they pass down their secrets a tiny nugget at a time in the same way as Saint Martin hands down his blanket to the beggar. Copying is as much a biological evolutionary technique as it is a cultural technique happening across time and space. The simple command of the keyboard becomes the framework through which this image of Domenicos Theotokopoulos, commonly known as El Grecko, takes shape. In the same manner that our copies of images streamline the mediascapes of the avenues of the Internet, I copied that many times in this particular painting until it mutated enough as to become a flux of colours, shapes and sensations. Tempera, known for its fast drying attributes, was used to capture this procedure which our cells have been doing since times immemorial.” —Tassis Yianakos
+ Framed and encased in glass.
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Year: 2021
Size: 60 x 65 cm
Materials: tempera on newspaper
“When I first started painting, without any formal training besides the eyes of the architect, copying was my go-to technique. I studied the Masters and as all masters do from every craft, they pass down their secrets a tiny nugget at a time in the same way as Saint Martin hands down his blanket to the beggar. Copying is as much a biological evolutionary technique as it is a cultural technique happening across time and space. The simple command of the keyboard becomes the framework through which this image of Domenicos Theotokopoulos, commonly known as El Grecko, takes shape. In the same manner that our copies of images streamline the mediascapes of the avenues of the Internet, I copied that many times in this particular painting until it mutated enough as to become a flux of colours, shapes and sensations. Tempera, known for its fast drying attributes, was used to capture this procedure which our cells have been doing since times immemorial.” —Tassis Yianakos
+ Framed and encased in glass.
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Year: 2021
Size: 40 x 58 cm
Materials: tempera on newspaper