Lambros Ilias Vouvousiras

Lambros Ilias Vouvousiras was born in Montreal, Canada. When he was 6 years old, he moved with his family to Karditsa where he finished high school.
Lambros experimented with paints and brushes at a very young age and wanted to become a painter. At the age of 18 he decided that he wanted to move and study abroad. He chose England where he completed his undergraduate studies in Business Economics as well as his postgraduate studies in Financial Decision Management. Ultimately, he became a hairdresser and through that he came in touch with his artistic side again. He stayed in London for 12 years and during that time he attended many life drawing classes and seminars, thus managing to practice the art of his childhood dreams. For the past five years Lambros Ilias Vouvousiras has been working on his own technique inspired by the traditional vertical loom, the weavings of Northern Greece and Athenian modernism through the architectural profile of the city. His materials are ribbons, cords, threads, and each piece is completely unique. He is self-taught in the technique he uses.
His original works have decorated several houses and hotels. His first exhibition took place in 2020 at the Elephant and Castle hair salon in Athens, where the audience embraced Lambros and his first step as well as his artworks. In the same year, he started working on the Urban Windows project. He created that series by observing the city windows which – due to the quarantine – were his only view.
His work is innovative and introduces something fresh to the art world, but by using an old technique. He is inspired by architecture, by the city he lives in, Athens, and he is constantly looking for new ways to express himself.
In 2023 he created “MTL (MONTREAL) hair & art”, a new space that fusions two business concepts: a hair salon and an art gallery.
With this projects he is embarking on personal journey of discovery, searching for that secret, sensitive and subtle place within time and space. A visualization through colors and lines. Inspired by the Athenian modernist grids that are abandoned in his urban landscape, around Victoria Sq. he creates color dialogues, reminiscent of old masters mixed with palettes found in street art. Using soft silk threads that are close to breaking point through tension, Vouvousiras creates multi-layered visions that open up as doors or tall window facades, inviting us to lose ourselves in the relationship behind what is visible and what has become hidden in the process. What remains private and what remains public. An unconscious voyeurism in silk. A process similar to vertical looms, traditionally worked by women to create cloth, throws, rugs.