‘Urban Details’ & ‘Project in A3 paper’ 11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/2020 Marginalia Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus 2020/21 Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus 2019 8th Affordable Art Fair-Milan ‘18, Milan, Italy 2018 Art Gallery, Alexandroupolis, Greece 2018 G. I. Katsigras Museum/Municipal Art Gallery, Larissa, Greece 2017 Municipal Art Gallery, Corfu, Greece 2017 Municipal Art Gallery, Karditsa, Greece 2016/17 Municipal Art Gallery, Patra, Greece 2016 Alma Contemporary Art Gallery, Trikala, Greece 2016 Municipal Art Gallery, Agrinio, Greece 2016 Municipal Art Gallery, Ioannina, Greece 2016 Pinacothèque of Municipality of Athens, Athens, Greece 2015/16 Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus 2015 9 ΕИΝΕΑ, Athens, Greece 2015 Kastela Art Center, Piraeus, Greece 2015 Whitfield Fine Art, London, U.K. 2014 Papatzikou Gallery, Veria, Greece 2014 The Loft, Athens, Greece 2014 Aenaon, Athens, Greece 2014 Μ-Art, Athens & Giorgio de Chirico Art Space, Volos, Greece 2014 Romantso, Athens, Greece 2014 Technohoros Art Gallery, Athens, Greece 2013 Beton7, Athens, Greece 2013 Chrysa Art Gallery, Katerini, Greece 2013 Tsichritzis Visual Arts Foundation, Kifissia/Athens, Greece 2013 Artis Causa, Thessaloniki, Greece 2013 Art Gallery, Alexandroupolis, Greece 2013 18th Art Athina ‘13, Athens, Greece, represented by> Artis Causa/Thessaloniki, 2013 Palivou Estate, Ancient Nemea, Greece 2013 8th contemporary istanbul ‘13, Istanbul, Turkey, represented by>Artis Causa/Thessaloniki, 2013 Pinelo Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2013 Arts Center-Parko Eleftherias, Athens, Greece (organized by Artis Causa/Thessaloniki & Technohoros Art Gallery/Athens) 2013 CHΑΝΙaRT 2013, Chania/Crete, Greece” Coco-Mat Gallery & Estate & Winery Loupakis 2013 Artis Causa, Thessaloniki, Greece 2012 Lembessiart 2012, Athens, Greece 2012 Gallery Kaplanon 5, Athens, Greece 2012 Tehnopolis/Gazi, Athens, Greece 2012 Tehnopolis/Gazi, Athens, Greece 2012 (pages 49)

‘Urban Details’ The art critic Anthi Argyriou mentions: “In Vassilis Karakatsanis’ collages and paintings the intense colour fields that constitute the background of a bright social life are prevalent while they converse with objects that the artist often depicts on his artistic surface: high heeled shoes, chairs, teapots and glasses; all are fetishes of a social status that has become the purpose and meaning of life for generations. Karakatsanis in the section ‘Urban details’ puts emphasis on an artistic tradition that is winking at pop art and refers to the aesthetics of advertising, lifestyle and the superficial, frivolous survival of a specific social class: the powerful middle social class that has developed greatly during the historic period of Greek Metapolitefsis, the years of the financial blooming that has reached its peak when they undertook the Olympic Games of 2004 only to collapse like a house of cards five years later. The glow and the optimism that are emitted by a prosperous public life that looked like it has beaten the dragon of the fairytale are emblematic, even when reminders of a not very glorious historic past intrude the canvas taking the shape of an ‘autistic’, repetitive photo album of beloved faces that are lost in the glamour of oblivion. Nevertheless the Karakatsanis’ social cartography saves a personal element: diary pages are hidden behind glasses and cocktails as silent reminders of an intensively experiential look that exhibits and at the same time penetrates the hypocrisy of the mentality of the modern ‘ego’ of the urban lifestyle. The artist- witness, historian, the artist- semiologist.”.

‘Αστικές Λεπτομέρειες’ Η κριτικός τέχνης Ανθή Αργυρίου αναφέρει: «Στα κολάζ και τα ζωγραφικά έργα του Βασίλη Καρακατσάνη τα έντονα χρωματικά πεδία που αποτελούν το φόντο μιας λαμπερής κοινωνικής ζωής, κυριαρχούν, καθώς συνδιαλέγονται με αντικείμενα που συχνά απεικονίζει ο καλλιτέχνης στην εικαστική του επιφάνεια: γόβες, καρέκλες, τσαγερά και ποτήρια, όλα φετίχ ενός κοινωνικού status που έγινε στόχος και νόημα ζωής για ολόκληρες γενιές. Ο Καρακατσάνης, στην σειρά με τίτλο ‘Urban details’, επιμένει εμφατικά σε μια καλλιτεχνική παράδοση που κλείνει το μάτι στην pop art και παραπέμπει στην αισθητική της διαφήμισης, του lifestyle, της επιδερμικής, επιπόλαιας διαβίωσης μιας πολύ συγκεκριμένης κοινωνικής τάξης: της κολοσσιαίας μεσαίας τάξης που διογκώθηκε στην μεταπολιτευτική περίοδο, στα χρόνια της οικονομικής άνθησης η οποία βρήκε την δικαίωση και την κορύφωσή της στην ανάληψη των Ολυμπιακών αγώνων του 2004 –για να καταρρεύσει σαν χάρτινος πύργος μία πενταετία αργότερα. Η λάμψη και η αισιοδοξία που αποπνέει μια ευημερούσα δημόσια ζωή η οποία έμοιαζε να έχει νικήσει τον δράκο του παραμυθιού είναι εμβληματική, ακόμη κι όταν υπομνήσεις ενός όχι και τόσο λαμπρού ιστορικού παρελθόντος παρεισφρύουν στον καμβά με την μορφή ενός ‘αυτιστικού’, επαναλαμβανόμενου άλμπουμ φωτογραφιών αγαπημένων προσώπων που χάνονται στην αίγλη της λήθης. Η κοινωνική χαρτογράφηση του Καρακατσάνη διασώζει ωστόσο και ένα προσωπικό στίγμα: σελίδες ενός ημερολογίου κρύβονται πίσω από ποτήρια και κοκτέιλ, βουβή υπενθύμιση μιας έντονα βιωματικής ματιάς που εκθέτει και συγχρόνως διαπερνά την υποκρισία ολόκληρης της νοοτροπίας του σύγχρονου ‘εγώ’ της αστικής κοσμοθεωρίας. Ο καλλιτέχνης-αυτόπτης μάρτυρας, ιστορικός, ο καλλιτέχνης-σημειολόγος».

‘Urban Details’ | ‘Αστικές Λεπτομέρειες’ 2011/2012 Photos by: Spyros Aronis 2007/2008/2

‘Urban Details’ 2012 mixed media on canvas (acrylic, textile & paper) 120X100 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2012

mixed media on canvas (acrylic, textile & paper)

100X070 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on canvas (acrylic, textile &

paper) 100X100 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on canvas (acrylic, textile &

paper) 100X100 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on canvas

(acrylic, textile & paper) 100X100 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2012 mixed media on canvas (acrylic & paper)

100X100 cm. E.J. Papadopoulos S.A. Company Art

Collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on canvas (acrylic, textile & paper) 100X070 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on canvas (acrylic & paper) 100X070 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on canvas (acrylic, textile & paper) 100X070 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2012 mixed media on canvas (acrylic & paper) 100X070 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on canvas (acrylic, textile & paper) 100X070 cm. private collection, Athens Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on canvas (acrylic & paper) 100X070 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2012 mixed media on canvas (acrylic, textile & paper) 100X070 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on canvas (acrylic, textile & paper) 140X100 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2012 mixed media on canvas (acrylic & paper) 045X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus ‘Urban Details’ 2012 mixed media on canvas (acrylic & paper) 045X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus ‘Urban Details’ 2012 mixed media on canvas (acrylic & paper) 045X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details’ 2012 mixed media on canvas (acrylic & paper) 045X035 cm. private collection, Thessaloniki, Greece ‘Urban Details’ 2012 mixed media on canvas (acrylic & paper) 045X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details’ 2012 mixed media on canvas (acrylic & paper)

140X100 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on objects, 24X10X16 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece ‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on objects, 24X10X16 cm. private collection, Thessaloniki, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on objects, 24X10X11 cm. ‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on objects, 24X10X11 cm.

Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on objects, 27X10X32 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 mixed media on objects, 274X09X11 cm. private collection, Katerini, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 acrylic & pencil on paper 025X013 cm.

private collection, Alexandroupolis, Greece ‘Urban Details’ 2011 acrylic & pencil on paper 025X013 cm.

Pinacothèque Christos & Sophia Moschandreou Collection, Mesolongi & Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 acrylic & pencil on paper 027X013 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 acrylic & pencil on paper 027X013 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 acrylic & pencil on paper 026X013 cm. private collection, Alexandroupolis, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 acrylic & pencil on paper 026X013 cm. private collection, Alexandroupolis, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 acrylic & pencil on paper 027X013 cm. private collection, Alexandroupolis, Greece

‘Urban Details’ 2011 acrylic, textile & pencil on paper 027X013 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ | ‘Αστικές Λεπτομέρειες 2013 Project σε Α3’

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. (each) private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. (each) private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Katerini, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Katerini, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Katerini, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Katerini, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Katerini, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Katerini, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Katerini, Greece ‘Urban Details 2013 Project in A3’ mixed media on paper 42X29,5 cm. private collection, Piraeus, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013 Tsichritzis Visual Arts Foundation, Athens/Kifissia 5/6-20/7/2013

Artis Causa, Thessaloniki 12/2013 Art Gallery, Alexandroupolis 12/2013

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm.

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm.

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Alexandroupolis, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm.

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Skyros, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Alexandroupolis, Greece

‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece ‘Urban Details 2011-2012’ & project on papers 2013, mixed media on paper 048X033 cm. private collection, Veria, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013-BAG, mixed media on object 025X020X010 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2012’, mixed media on paper 018X024 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2013’, mixed media on paper 018X024 cm. private collection, Athens, Greece

‘Urban Details 2014’, mixed media on paper 010X015 cm. private collection, London, U.K. ‘Urban Details 2014’, mixed media on paper 010X015 cm. private collection, London, U.K.

‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus ‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus ‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus ‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus ‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus ‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus ‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus ‘Urban Details 2014’ , mixed media on canvas 050X035 cm. private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

‘Urban Details 2014’ 120Χ100 cm. acrylic & oil on canvas ‘Urban Details 2014’ 120Χ100 cm. acrylic & oil on canvas, private collection, Limassol, Cyprus

2012

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