WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:01.520 --> 00:00:05.970 after the first retrospective that we did made in ninety seven. 00:00:07.250 --> 00:00:14.660 So I continued to study the archives and collaborated with uh with people. 00:00:14.660 --> 00:00:23.890 Uh from the trade with the galleries and the I started. 00:00:25.040 --> 00:00:37.379 I started my collaboration with the, the TEP foundry, where we 00:00:37.379 --> 00:00:44.160 started the, the sculptures that I had, the bronze business. 00:00:45.239 --> 00:00:53.065 It was the dimension, well the work of my father who 00:00:53.065 --> 00:00:59.525 was very unknown because during my father's during my father's lifetime, 00:00:59.855 --> 00:01:01.705 he wasn't interested in that at all. 00:01:01.714 --> 00:01:05.075 He had made very few prints where he did what he had done, 00:01:05.084 --> 00:01:10.595 one print of each of his casts. 00:01:11.375 --> 00:01:17.780 And here, he was interested in creating sculptures, to make, to work, 00:01:17.780 --> 00:01:24.940 to continue, to work and not to not looking back at his work. 00:01:27.830 --> 00:01:37.840 I must say that a few months before his death I must say that a few months before his death, it was the first time I 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:47.895 felt that he had a feeling that he had done an important work 00:01:48.885 --> 00:01:56.375 and that, perhaps, he looked back for the first time looking back at all his work. 00:01:58.145 --> 00:01:59.385 So I'm a jerk. 00:01:59.395 --> 00:02:04.015 I continued in this way since the artist was no longer there. 00:02:04.775 --> 00:02:07.355 We had to take care of all this work. 00:02:07.780 --> 00:02:16.970 that were not known and the and the create it with through the foundry. 00:02:17.880 --> 00:02:25.650 So I, I decided that it was important to have that collaboration there. 00:02:26.215 --> 00:02:36.245 and that turned out to be very important and that little by little also interested 00:02:36.245 --> 00:02:38.935 galleries and the art market. 00:02:39.715 --> 00:02:49.255 Uh it's true that my father, the moment of his death was very well known but he didn't have 00:02:49.255 --> 00:03:00.890 not a very important coast, so this work with all this uh recreation 00:03:01.050 --> 00:03:12.030 of printing the figurative work of my father and the work my father's figurative work and the work from the years 00:03:12.030 --> 00:03:21.470 forty has been decisive to create a quote, what we call a quot. 00:03:21.480 --> 00:03:31.265 Which is of course essential in maintaining interest in the artist 00:03:31.655 --> 00:03:36.265 and the maintenance of the artist's name, the art market and in the 00:03:36.265 --> 00:03:41.875 the field of in its artistic value. 00:03:43.855 --> 00:03:51.975 So I started to make exhibitions an important exhibition. 00:03:53.424 --> 00:03:56.845 that I may have. 00:03:57.424 --> 00:04:03.875 This may be the first one I've done with the gallery, but sweet in Athens 00:04:03.885 --> 00:04:09.975 with Marielle Mitraillage, who was who had already worked with my father at two 00:04:09.975 --> 00:04:17.325 times, I think in eighty-three in eighty-seven eighty-seven I think and who had 00:04:17.325 --> 00:04:25.630 and had a very good and positive uh positive collaboration 00:04:26.010 --> 00:04:33.390 with him so it's with great joy to to be part of this continuation. 00:04:35.085 --> 00:04:38.535 and to work with people who had already who had worked with my father before. 00:04:39.845 --> 00:04:42.415 So we did this exhibition in two thousand and eight. 00:04:42.415 --> 00:04:45.705 Then we made another exhibition in two thousand and ten or two thousand and eleven. 00:04:45.705 --> 00:04:54.045 I don't remember where we did an exhibition with Mario. 00:04:55.825 --> 00:04:58.965 and the theme of the exhibition it was the friendship that they had. 00:05:00.370 --> 00:05:05.800 between them and we made a very beautiful exhibition with very beautiful works 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:09.900 of Mario and works of my father. 00:05:12.820 --> 00:05:18.780 So after these uh, these individual exhibitions individual exhibitions and the exhibition with 00:05:18.780 --> 00:05:25.419 Mario, we decided to do a retrospective in Athens. 00:05:27.575 --> 00:05:32.905 It was very important symbolically to do a big retrospective. 00:05:33.895 --> 00:05:40.815 My father was already very interested interest in the market with, by 00:05:40.815 --> 00:05:48.595 through this of sculptures that we had the foundry and all that. 00:05:48.605 --> 00:05:53.415 And we did it in collaboration with TEP. 00:05:56.049 --> 00:06:03.080 women and especially the Baghdad Museum. 00:06:03.919 --> 00:06:13.060 We decided to do a retrospective at the uh at the museum uh so this 00:06:13.060 --> 00:06:17.860 exhibition took place in two thousand twelve, end of two thousand and twelve and since then 00:06:17.870 --> 00:06:26.910 two thousand and thirteen, it was really an important exhibition because it was, 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:32.850 there was the whole extent of my father's work my father's work, from the beginning to the end. 00:06:36.830 --> 00:06:41.480 It lasted more than three months, we made a very nice catalog. 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:58.739 and it was decisive for uh the place of my father who deserved my I 00:06:58.739 --> 00:07:14.315 would say that my maximum my initiative to work and to take seriously the 00:07:14.315 --> 00:07:19.875 my father's work and is interesting. 00:07:19.985 --> 00:07:20.715 I said. 00:07:20.715 --> 00:07:29.635 It's a kind of self-analysis for me, the world that I could have. 00:07:30.215 --> 00:07:36.135 Uh, because I, I lived in Greece, I went to the United States and not to 00:07:36.145 --> 00:07:38.935 I didn't spend enough time with my father. 00:07:39.805 --> 00:07:46.835 it's the fact of dialoguing with his work, manipulating his 00:07:46.835 --> 00:07:49.355 work and dealing with that. 00:07:49.545 --> 00:07:55.865 Uh makes me feel very good and I I I think that's a need that I have and 00:07:55.865 --> 00:08:00.105 that's good for me and that's good for the work too because there's 00:08:00.105 --> 00:08:04.655 someone who takes the work seriously the work, who does his research, 00:08:04.665 --> 00:08:12.705 who uh, who defends and who is able of of of of expertise and and of 00:08:12.705 --> 00:08:17.845 to support him in an honest way. 00:08:21.125 --> 00:08:24.675 So one of the public works that I was talking about 00:08:24.675 --> 00:08:28.675 Italy, Switzerland and France, one of the public works. 00:08:28.675 --> 00:08:33.065 It is this work that is right behind me behind me which is the Alhambra tribute 00:08:33.065 --> 00:08:41.569 that this work was in the studio uh across the street where my father worked. 00:08:41.569 --> 00:08:42.949 He had left this work. 00:08:43.429 --> 00:08:45.770 I don't know if he had the idea. 00:08:45.770 --> 00:08:51.620 He had created this work thinking there the CUS, but as you see, 00:08:51.630 --> 00:08:58.640 it's a, it's an athlete, either someone who runs or like a discobolus. 00:09:01.185 --> 00:09:02.835 the symbol. 00:09:02.835 --> 00:09:06.115 It was Kolingba who was an athlete. 00:09:06.125 --> 00:09:07.335 He was a marathon runner. 00:09:08.625 --> 00:09:13.845 And so he was offered to put down a sculpture like the city of 00:09:13.845 --> 00:09:21.335 Bologna wanted to create a square Lambert acquired A tribute to him, he has 00:09:22.295 --> 00:09:24.225 so he proposed his sculptures. 00:09:24.235 --> 00:09:28.685 So that was accepted, he put his sculptures sculptures and we went with the 00:09:28.685 --> 00:09:38.325 foundry TEP and we went to uh to create a cast of the sculpture 00:09:38.335 --> 00:09:40.045 and that's how it's there. 00:09:42.035 --> 00:09:47.615 That's why it's important to work with the that I had with the TEP foundry. 00:09:50.380 --> 00:09:56.830 to make prints of works like of works like C'est la ça. 00:09:56.830 --> 00:10:01.880 It's a work that was very important for me, that it was present in the, in the 00:10:01.880 --> 00:10:05.170 my father's retrospective in Athens. 00:10:07.040 --> 00:10:09.690 That was very, very important to me.