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Athens, Greece
Stelios Pupet (b. Athens, 1983) is a Greek visual artist who studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts and still lives and works in the city. His work fuses traditional painting with digital method: figures built from flat, offset rectangles of colour that read as pixel or as mosaic depending on where you stand, and resolve into a face only at a distance. The recurring subjects are identity, memory, and how reliably we perceive either.
He has painted across Europe — Ilion and Nea Ionia in Athens, Larissa, Volos and the Aegean islands in Greece; Zaragoza for Asalto; Toulouse and Montauban in France; Mons in Belgium; Trieste in Italy.
For WOOL — Covilhã Arte Urbana in 2025 he painted Portrait of a Woven Memory, taking as his starting point Eduardo Malta, the Covilhã-born portraitist. Pupet's answer looks nothing like Malta's realism, but it extends the same instinct — the town looking hard at its own face — onto a present-day wall.
A WOOL 2025 mural answering Eduardo Malta, the Covilhã-born portraitist. A figure in flat planes of ochre, sage and dusty blue rises the full height of a gable, a band of woven checks running along the base like cloth on a loom. Mural #56 on the WOOL trail.
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A wall painted in Mons for the city's L'art Habite la Ville programme, in the Hainaut capital that was European Capital of Culture in 2015.
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The companion piece to Solitude of Contemplation in the same Ílion park — another contemplative woman built out of the artist's subtle grid, painted near his own neighbourhood after a season of festival walls across Europe.
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Pupet's first wall in Spain, painted between 15 and 24 September 2023 for the eighteenth Asalto festival, the year the festival took over the La Jota neighbourhood. A female figure resolved through pixelation, on the corner of Calle Santa Quiteria and Camino de las Torrecillas.
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A roughly 10 by 15 metre wall in the Antonis Tritsis park in Ílion, in Athens' western suburbs. A woman sits inside herself, assembled from offset rectangles of colour that read as pixels close up and as a face from across the park.
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A very large Athens wall named for Tláloc, the Mexica rain god — a face that arrives out of flat geometric planes rather than out of modelling, which is Pupet's whole argument about how recognition works.
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