Jannis Varelas
June Art Fair
August 20, 2020–August 31, 2020Online at Hauser & Wirth
For June Art Fair, Special Online Edition in partnership with Hauser & Wirth and ArtReview, The Breeder presents an eclectic selection of paintings by Jannis Varelas with each work epitomizing a different period of the artist’s ouvre. In his work Varelas explores the concepts of identity and alterity, iconophilia and iconoclasm, sameness and difference, the normal and the abnormal, impulse and repulsion, melancholy and ecstasy, the binary and the multiple gender. His practice is best approached as a phychosexual and cultural anthropology of the contemporary.
Jannis Varelas (b. 1977) lives between Athens, Vienna and Los Angeles. Recent solo shows: The Breeder (forthcoming 2020); Anima I, Benaki Museum, Athens, (2019); Monster, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens (2017).
