Georges Vaskas
December 25th, 1927 - March 8th, 2009

Photo of a sculpture around 1947. Composition « the spirit ».

Biography

Born in Tropéa (Greece) near Olympia.

After graduating from the High School of Fine Arts in Athens with a major in sculpture, he moved to London where he participated in several workshops at the Ecole Polytechnique. He got an award at an exhibition on the theme of mind.

This artwork reflects the way of thinking he pursued throughout his life. He materialized it in his cosmology.

In London, he supported himself by making flight mechanics. Passionated by mechanical drawings, his inventive mind started looking for systems to improve the speed of human movements. He filled two patents.

From London one of his friends and himself decided to leave for Argentina where he became an international trader. Located near Rosario, he signed contracts with many world governments to import meat and other products.

Thanks to his extensively travels he met politicians, international traders, but also scientists.

Due to a sabotage of its production in Argentina he lost his entire fortune.

After a short journey in Greece, he settled in the South of France where a friend introduced him into the external services of Texas Instruments. At the same time, he worked on architectural projects of industrial premises.

Unfortunately health problems curbed its activities. Once recovered, he fully devoted his last 20 years to cosmology. Those researches were already seen in his sculpture in London.

He is the author of the document "paligenesia raison d'être" written in French language by his close friend Daniel Janisson.

His life ended in a complete bareness but he was satisfied to have finished what he had to do. His last words were: "Follow the improvement!".

Quote from George Vaskas

“…. you have forgotten to mention my real status, that is, a transitory man, as each one of us is, who in his love of the quest for reality has dedicated his life to fundamental cosmic research; a modest spectator of ideological conflicts and intolerable forms of citizenship, having the will to put the results of his work at the service of reinforcement and of moral dignity and techno-scientific and notably cosmological progress; a minuscule man among billions of others, who… is trying to understand, as the Universal Code unfolds itself, the reason for all existence and its movement in the framework of an approaching-distancing or an attraction-repulsion… (inside the living polygalactic organism)…”

“… I am not a devotee of the past, but a futurist who has confidence in the advanced intellection of contemporary man….. I am sure that we are sufficiently strong, today, to profit from the thousands of cultural programmes and the abundance of historical archives, in such a way as to be able to discern the utopia of the past and not go backwards.”

“…It's true that they will organise controversy… and not without reason… But I would like to assure them that my convictions are not held to belittle their work, because we all wish to serve science which is at the service of mankind… don't forget that I am old enough to nourish no ambition for any prize, celebrity or claim of originality or the wish to realise an ideal, which in any case does not exist; but I refuse to let the least controversy or the smallest dispute take me away from the great friendship which I feel for my kind, even if he should contradict me…