Stamatis Laskos - Greece
Stamatis Laskos is a Greek street artist, illustrator and painter also known as Sive, who creates warped portraits through highly stylized depictions that are alive with detail, depth and dimension.
Stamatis controls proportions to create a wonderful re-imagining of human anatomy. Laskos, who works in both street art and illustration, creates surreal worlds inhabited by figures with abstracted bodies, bearing elongated limbs and caricature-esque faces with stretched noses and ears.
​His street art is painted with cool, earthy colors applied with raw brushstrokes. Laskos’s illustrative works, while having less range of color, are still rendered with impressive detail and texture.
​Embracing the codes and aesthetics of street art, he progressively moved from a caricatural world towards more symbolic productions.