Hauser & Wirth

The Breeder

Jannis Varelas

Jannis Varelas

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).

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Red Fields

Jannis Varelas 2020 Oil, acrylic, pastel, gesso on canvas 250 x 250 cm / 98 1/2 x 98 1/2 in $ 32,500

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The Maroons

Jannis Varelas, 2020 Oil, acrylic, pastel, gesso on canvas 250 x 280 cm / 98 1/2 x 110 in $ 35,400

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Sailor and Leopard

Jannis Varelas 2019 Oil, oil stick, acrylic ink, gesso on canvas 250 x 210 cm / 98 1/2 x 82 3/5 in $ 28,000

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Mao the Cat

Jannis Varelas 2017 Oil stick, oil, acrylic, acrylic ink, UV ink, pastel, gesso on canvas 200 x 200 cm / 78 7/10 x 78 7/10 in $ 25,000

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Jungle Walk

Jannis Varelas 2017 Oil, oil stick, acrylic, permanent marker, pastel, crayon, gesso on canvas 210 x 240 cm / 82 7/10 x 94 1/2 in $ 28,000

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.

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Tutti Frutti

Jannis Varelas 2017 Oil, oilstick, acrylic, tempera, ink, pastel, guesso on canvas 250 x 250 cm / 98 1/2 x 98 1/2 in $ 32,500

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Red Truck Blue Lights / New Flag for a New Country

Jannis Varelas 2015 Guesso, oil, oistick, acrylic, permanent marker on canvas 300 x 370 cm / 118 x 145 1/2 in $ 45,000

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Untitled

Jannis Varelas 2016 Mixed media on canvas 210 x 240 cm / 82 7/10 x 94 1/2 in $ 28,000

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Little Bear

Jannis Varelas 2019 Oil, oil stick, acrylic ink, gesso on canvas 250 x 210 cm / 98 1/2 x 82 3/5 in $ 28,000

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Untitled

Jannis Varelas 2007 Mixed media on paper, framed 240 x 150 cm / 94 1/2 x 59 1/16 in $ 30,000

The Breeder

The Breeder gallery was founded in 2002 by George Vamvakidis and Stathis Panagoulis. It developed organically from The Breeder magazine that started in 2000, out of the need to build an artistic dialogue between Athens and the world. Over the past eighteen years, The Breeder gallery has been a pioneer in the development of the contemporary art scene in Athens.

Contact The Breeder / Nadia Gerazouni +30 694 464 6800 (Whatsapp)