“Sculpture is an art that connects us with the primordial, the material world, and nature, serving the universal human need for communication through symbols. Its unique ability to create forms as vessels of ideas and meanings makes it mysterious and sacred, as its origins are rooted in worship and magical practices. The concept of sculpture as invocation and dedication is particularly significant to me in our era, characterized by a spiritual shift towards materialism”.
Konstantinos Kessaris
Bio
Κonstantinos Kessaris is a Greek sculptor, born in Kalamata. He is an honors graduate of the sculpture department of the Athens School of Fine Arts while he also studied at the Installation Art department of the KAASK art academy of Ghent, in Belgium. He additionally holds a MSc in World Heritage and development awarded by the Polytechnic of Turin. In recent years he has been active as a sculptor but also in the wider field of the creative industries collaborating with international cultural organizations. He lives and works in Athens creating sculptures in bronze, marble and mix media, both under private and public commissions, while he also participates in international marble sculpture symposiums seeking to engage with public art and international audiences. Konstantinos draws inspiration from natural forms, psychology, symbolism, empirical philosophy and cultural anthropology, seeking to combine art practice with ethnographic and social science research.
Sculptural Approach
Kessaris seeks, through a process of phenomenological introspective observation of the world, to deconstruct and reconstruct the individual’s relationship as an observer with their environment, their inner self, space and time. Inspired by natural organic forms and geometric symbolism he creates abstract lifelike sculptures in harmony with their environment, which serve as points of contemplation. At the same time his figurative work as a representation of the ego, seeks to retell human stories and interpret emotional states of being. His existential approach to sculpture elevates the individual to the collective, through continuous transformations of archetypal images and symbols, diving into cultural anthropology, analytical psychology, philosophy, and mysticism.
Kessaris examines sculpture as the result of a continuous process of observation, separation, and reassembly of images and concepts, with the aim of re-symbolizing them in space. His sculptures, as means of achieving non-verbal communication, act as entry points into the world of the collective unconscious, aiming to reveal beauty and truth through recognition, identification, and ultimately, aesthetic pleasure.
Symposiums
• 10th International marble symposium of Heraklion, 2023
• 2nd Stone Workshop of Kalamata, 2015
• 1st International Stone Workshop, Tsepelovo, 2013
• 11th International marble symposium of Ptolemaida, 2012
• Rethymno ASFA limenstone workshop, Rethymno 2011