Fondamenta nuova (New Foundations)

Alkis Pierrakos was born in 1920 in Thessaloniki. He lived outside Greece until 1938, and after the war he travelled to Europe. He studied in Switzerland, at the Gewerbeschule in Basel (1948-1952) and in London, at the Slade School of Fine Arts and the Central School of Arts and Crafts. In 1953-54 he lived in Germany, where he came into contact with the quest for expressionism. In 1954 he moved to Paris, where he lived and worked for most of his life, and from 1980 he spent long periods of time in Oxylithos, Evia. He was a founding member and coordinator of the group 'Le Ligne et le Signe'.