CENTRE OF ARTS 4 SEASONS AthensArt International Arts Festival 5680 Members 7 Continents 155 Countries
Ascoli-Piceno/Italy 2022
Prof. Dr. Takis Alexiou 39, Salaminos Str., 153.43 Ag. Paraskevi / Athens Tel./Fax: 0030-210-6011904, e-mail: profalex@otenet.gr Oropos / Sykamino / Pano Laka, 190.15 Nea Palatia / Attica www.athensart-2010.ning.com Mob.: 0030-6944128460, e-mail: ca4s@otenet.gr
SALA COLA DELL’ AMATRICE - ASCOLI-PICENO Next to the Main Cloister of St. Francis, the Sala Cola dell’Amatrice has served many purposes over the course of history, including religion, folklore and city life. In the historic center of Ascoli Piceno, next to the monumental Church of St. Francis, located in the east wing of the former convent, lies the Sala Cola Dell’Amatrice, which can be accessed through the Main Cloister. Today’s hall is certainly smaller than the original one, which, in the Middle Ages, served first as the church’s Chapter House and later as the Oratory of Corpus Domini. When the hall became a possession of the Italian State, it whaving lived lives and experiences similar to those of Jesus Christ. But when the original ceiling was lowered and covered with vaults, the frescoes, no longer visible, were forgotten. In 1872, the artist Giulio Cantalamessa, while inspecting the cavity between the old and the new ceiling, realized the value of the paintings and suggested that they should be removed. After having been long kept in the parish hall of the convent, Cola’s frescoes have been carefully restored and placed where they were meant to be. Since March 2012, the public have been able to enjoy the five works back to their original location.
CA4S-ATHENSART SHORT CV
Friendship through Art can change the World Peacefully CA4S-AthensArt is a non-commercial and non-profitable International Artists and Art Lovers Community. There are no fees either for inscription or participation in all Events, in Greece and abroad. Our philosophy is based on the “Positive Side of Life”, as well as in the “Power of Friendship” that can change through Art the World peacefully. For the last 30 years, the Centre of Arts 4 Seasons (CA4S) created various cultural Events like “Kavafia”, “IaponiaJapan-Japon”, “Multispectacle 4 Seasons”, “Multispectacle Aristophanes Androgyne”, Philanthropic Art Exhibitions in Greece and abroad, published books and produced CDs, organized numerous Conferences, etc. In the year 2010 we realized our first International Arts Festival AthensArt, in collaboration with the Cultural Organization “Technopolis” and under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and the City of Athens, with the theme “The Positive side of Life” and “Friendship through Art can change the World”, and participation of 300 artists from 5 Continents and 65 countries of the World. During 2011 AthensArt has been present in Monterrey/Mexico with Prints for Peace, in London/UK to support victims of HIV in Tanzania and to assist children in Zambia, in Vienna/Austria with a philanthropic exhibition for the victims of Earthquake-Tsunami in Japan, in Piraeus/Greece in collaboration with UNESCO’s Association for Peace, in Rostov Region/Russia with our International Arts Festival and in Ubá/Brazil. In Greece, besides our Syntagma Square exhibition and participation in the Egyptian Cultural Week dedicated to Naguib Mahfouz in Athens, we started our AthensArt Odysseia in “Ambelonas” Corfu, making a second stop in the “House of Culture” of Rethymno/Crete. In 2012 we were present in the State Picture Gallery of Izmail/Ukraine and in the 2nd Egyptian Cultural Week in Athens, dedicated to the 10th Anniversary of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, in collaboration with the Embassy of Egypt. Our AthensArt Odysseia continued its journey in Naxos in the Former Ursuline School and in Corfu in the Patio of Corfu’s Psychiatric Hospital. In 2013 we have been in Gallery Apartment No 10 of Odessa/Ukraine and in 2014 we have been in Bispgården/Sweden, Vienna/Austria and Monterrey/Mexico. In 2015 we have been in Oropos/Greece
and in Rostov on Don/Russia. In 2016 we were present in several cities of Colombia with many parallel Events in Bogotá, Pereira, Manizales and Chia. The year 2017 was dedicated, by the Greek Ministry of Culture, to the well known Greek writer, poet and philosopher Nikos Kazantzakis, and we organized an International Exhibition in Meropeion Philanthropic Foundation, under Acropolis/Athens, in collaboration with Unesco Piraeus & Islands, which was carried over in Stathopouleio Cultural Centre, in collaboration with Vyronas Municipality. Our official invitation from Bibliotheca Alexandrina of Alexandria/Egypt, remains open. Due to pandemic, our AthensArt Events for 2020 in New Jersey/USA, and Athens,/Greece had to be postponed. However, trying to find other solutions to be connected, we created a 3D online Gallery that we plan to use for all our Events.
CA4S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Our journey to Ascoli-Piceno / Italy, started with the willingness of our good Friend and Representative in Italy, Barbara Marcucci, to organize, in collaboration with Ascoli-Piceno Municipality, an AthensArt International Arts Festival, in this historic area, from 07.04.2022-15.05.2022. The Administration’s Council of Centre of Arts 4 Seasons CA4S-AthensArt would like to thank everyone who helped to realize this Event, and more specifically Giuliano, Zoe and Giouli. We thank also our Friends from AthensArt Designer’s Group, and especially Panos, Kiki and Litsa who prepared our e-catalogue. Finally, we express our gratitude to Daniele Ricciotti from Ascoli Municipality, for all his efforts in the preparation of invitationprogram and poster. Continuing in these troubled times, to spread our idea of Friendship through Art that can change the World Peacefully, we also organize a philanthropic exhibition, with the exhibited artworks that our friends artists generously donated. All revenue will be given to Red Cross Ukraine, as a small contribute to the sufferings of the Ukrainian people, due to war. Litsa Marandi, CA4S-AthensArt Secretary
FROM BARBARITY TO A HUMAN SOCIETY Dearest Friends, The last 250 years, through the three, so-called, Industrial Revolutions, Markets showed us their ugliest face, destroying a whole Planet, which needs -according to environmentalists- at least 200.000 years to recover. Markets also destroyed, without any hesitation, our emotional home almost completely. To succeed in this “task” the only thing needed was to keep us hypnotized, as we already were, twisting the meaning of the words we use in our everyday communication using for their purposes an egocentric money- oriented education without any humanistic principles and values. In other words, to keep us “donkeys overloaded with books” but without any essential Knowledge, means canaille in a state of hallucination instead of educating primarily our hearts. Markets, knowing the unstable mental state of the great majority of earth population, were never interested in introducing Emotional Education & Therapy, developing, instead a gigantic sex industry and a psychiatry of repression Embryo and Child mistreatment through parents and teachers, even sexual abuse, was and still is a forbidden to talk about issue. But why in Reality? I think because mentally healthy people are not welcome by the barbaric economy of Markets, in other words people with a tidy emotional home will never ever accept the reptile behavior of markets. Knowing that, markets are now trying, in addition and ahead of the 4th industrial revolution to seduce us with UFO, space ships, anthropoid robots etc, announcing without any shame that, after occupying the Moon, they will soon start to exploit the Planet Mars. Should I mention, among many, the Italian Professor Carlo M. Cipolla, should I mention the German philosopher Dr. Michael Schmidt Salomon, should I mention the well-known astrophysicist Albert Einstein, who all of them spoke about the endless stupidity of the human race??? Knowing that every 500 years the social system changes, either we like it or not, our only hope lies on the number of people who develop, in this period of crisis, Free Will. This is our duty, because through the presence of Great Individuals, such as Pope Francis and Dalai Lama, as well as through Real Friendship and True Art that we represent in AthensArt, the number of people with Free Will may increase efficiently, creating, finally and beyond all difficulties, a human society full of Love and Kindness. Always with Love and Friendship... Dr. Takis Alexiou, CA4S-AthensArt Chairman, Athens, April 2022
Inaugural conference Ascoli Piceno, Thursday 7 April 2022 Live streaming on the Confartigianato MC-AP-FM YouTube channel At the Sala della Ragione (Palazzo dei Capitani) - ASCOLI PICENO 9.00 am Registration of participants 9.30 am Greetings from the authorities present 10.00 am Takis Alexiou, president of Center of Arts 4 Seasons (CA4S) of Athens Greetings from the international artists participating in the exhibition and connected via live streaming 10.30 am Furio Cappelli, art historian Mediterranean reflections in medieval Ascoli 11.00 am Barbara Marcucci, local representative of the Center of Arts 4 Seasons in Athens presents: Peace, peace my God! from “The Force of Destiny” by Giuseppe Verdi Sara Fulvi, Soprano - Elisa Casimirri, Maestro at the piano 11.15 am Giuseppe Di Girolami, president of A.R.T. & Co. Srl (UNICAM spinoff) The technology for the conservation and enhancement of contemporary art Moderator: Filippo Ferretti At the Sala Cola dell’Amatrice - ASCOLI PICENO 11.45 am Cutting of the ribbon and inauguration of the exhibition.
TAKIS ALEXIOU Takis Alexiou was born in Alexandria, Egypt on January 5th, 1942. He studied Architecture in Germany (Diploma in Architecture and Planning, T.U. Dresden, 1964). He completed his postgraduate studies in General and Perceptual Psychology and in 1968 his pioneering doctoral dissertation, connecting Architectural Design with Psychology. He has worked as an Architect and City Planner in various projects around the World. He is a member of Architectural, Technical and Town Planning Associations, has participated in various seminars, symposia and conferences and has given many lectures in Europe. He was visiting Professor in the University of Offenbach/M., Germany and for several years Professor at The American University of Athens and the Open University of Ag. Paraskevi, Athens. As an artist, he has held many private and group exhibitions. He has been President of the Panhellenic Historical & Philosophical Society and Chairman of the Centre of Arts 4 Seasons organizing International Symposiums and Conferences for Human Rights. In the field of music he has published numerous compo-sitions. He was awarded with the “International Cavafy prize” and declared as “Great Benefactor” for his philanthropic activities from the Greek Community in Egypt. He was granted various prizes and his name is mentioned in Greek and International Encyclopedias. He has published numerous articles and books. As Chairman of CA4SAthensArt, he created and manages till now the www.athensart-2010. ning.com Site. In 2010 he organized the AthensArt International Arts Festival in Technopolis/Athens. He has organized many group and philanthropic exhibitions in Greece and abroad, promoting “Friendship through Art can change the World”.
THE EGYPTIAN Mixed media on canvas, 50x70cm, 2005
PANOS ARVANITIS Panos Arvanitis was born in Athens in 1991. He is a graduate of Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, Department of Structural Engineering. Moreover, he has graduated International Tourism and Hospitality Management Department at Akmi Institute. He is a member of CA4S-AthensArt International Committee’s Council, representing the Young Generation and he has participated in Art festivals all over the world (Greece, Austria, Sweden, Brazil,Ukraine, Russia etc.). He has attended series of workshops about video creation, photography and digital image processing. He is fluent in English. Among his hobbies is guitar and journeys.
FLYING Digital photo, 50x40cm, 2021
KIKI BARDANI Kiki Bardani was born in Athens in 1962. She works as a teacher in public primary education since 1996. She has attended seminars about educational pshycology as well as workshops about art teaching for children. She is a member of CA4S-AthensArt, having participated in several art festivals, in Greece and abroad.
DANUBE Digital photo, 50x40cm, 2022
KARIN BAUER Karin Bauer, born in 1959, attended medical studies at the University of Vienna and was specialized in Internal Medicine. She is still working in a public hospital in Vienna. Her initial occupation was analog photography and since 2011 her intense occupation is digital photography. From 2011 to 2013 she participated in preparatory classes to become a professional photographer, in Vienna, including Lightbox Academy, (Robert Pichler, Vienna). From 2013 to 2015 she studied applied and artistic photography at the Prager Fotoschule in Linz and graduated with diploma on the subject of street photography - “Walk’n Street”. Since 2015 she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in national and international galleries. My photographic interests are mainly the linking of reality and illusion through graphic elements and experimental color compositions as well as smooth transitions from photography and painting through mixed media techniques and digital image processing, abstraction of architectural elements through unusual perspectives and views different from those of the familiar everyday environment. For me, photography is a process of meditation, where I can give free rein to my moods, ideas and thoughts, which often leads the chosen path to a different destination, not only in thought, but also in the real world. I like to experiment with the camera, using double and multiple exposures in the camera itself as well as in digital post-processing. I find visual world, to make it more colorful and cheerful or dark, mysterious and threatening, thus creating special moods and feelings. Mixed media techniques, such as the combination of polaroid emulsion transfer with digital photography lead to unexpected visual impressions. Not to forget the fascination of chance/coincidence, which is an exciting element of my photographic techniques and always surprises me with its creativity.
HAPINESS THROUGH FRIENDSHIP Digital photo, double exposure in digital post processing with Photoshop 60x45 cm, 2021
SENITA BERGSMAN Senita Bergsman is a painter, born in St. Kopparberg Falun/Sweden, who lives and works in Gothenburg/Sweden A short story about me: I am an autodidact artist, my paintings are abstract to reflect my inner self - my feelings and emotions.The paintings come to me in a sense of color, shape or texture. I paint in acrylic and mixed media. I love to experiment with different mediums to produce contrasting textures and structures trying to be as free as possibly in my painting. I had exhibitions in England, Greece, USA and several in Sweden where I was born, both solo and group exhibitions. I also organized several group exhibitions in Gothenburg where I live.
GOLDEN HOUR Mixed media, 15x15cm, 2021
ELENA BOLGOVA Elena Bolgova was born on July 3, 1973 in the city NevinnomyskRussia. She is a professional artist with 30 years of experience in the field of Arts. In 1995, when she was only 22 years old, she made her first solo exhibition at Salinas USA. She lives in Saint-Petersburg and has studied at the State Academy of Art and Design, Book Graphics and Illustration Department. In this long and sophisticated career, Elena has already participated in more than a hundred exhibitions in countries such as Greece, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, England, Scotland and the United States.
VISITOR Triptich, Acrylic on canvas, 60x20cm
ZOE BOLZONELLA Zoe Bolzonella lives in Italy and is 22 years old. “I have always been interested in the art world. Now I am a student who is graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, department of Scenography. The works I have proposed represent my path during this period in search of happiness. Being very shy, in art I have always found a way to express what I can not say in words.”
THE MOON OUTSIDE THE WINDOW Acrylic on canvas, 35x50 cm, 2021
DALIBOR DADO CETKOVIC Dalibor Dado Ćetković was born in town Bar (Montenegro) on 1982. He enrolled at the “Petar Lubarda” high school of fine arts in town Cetinje (Montenegro) on 1997 and graduated as an art technician in 2001 from the department of painting. The same year he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in town Trebinje (Bosnia and Hercegovina). During his studies, in addition to his annual exhibitions at the academy, he held several group and solo exhibitions. Dalibor graduated in 2007 in the class of Professor Marko Musovich in the painting direction and earned the title of Graduate Academic Painter. The same year, he opened his gallery “Art Studio-Gallery Dalibor” in his hometown, where he worked and organized exhibitions until 2010. Since 2008 he is a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Montenegro – ULUCG and regularly exhibits at Traditional exhibitions. In addition to painting, he has done numerous sculptures, photographs, many design ideas for: books (covers and illustrations), posters, interior design, etc. From 2014 he started working as an art educator of all ages in his art studio, where he trains and prepares students for enrollment on high art school and at the faculties of fine arts. In November 2019 he goes to America (Phoenix-Arizona-USA). He is inscribed in the “Universal Art Lexicon” for the Balkans and in the Italian Great Encyclopedia Of International Art “Art Universal” 2021, chosen by art critic and contemporary art expert Francesco Russo. So far, he had 17 solo and over 70 collective exhibitions at home and abroad, and is the winner of many recognitions and awards. His works are found all over the world in private collections. He lives and works in town Bar.
IN THE CAVE Acrylic on canvas, 20x20cm, 2021
CHRISTINE CEZANNE-THAUSS Christine Cézanne-Thauss was born in Vienna in 1952, where she lives and works. She graduated in history at Vienna University, but works as a teacher at Primary School. She has been skilled in art for many years and took part in various of local and international exhibitions. The main interests of my life have to do with human beings. Working as a teacher I deal with children, with their sorrows and dreams. Being an historian as well, I´m interested in biographies - especially in those of people, who were prosecuted in WW II. As a paintress, my favorite theme is the human being as well - I did a lot of “dream-pictures”, being rather surrealistic, but also a lot of nude-paintings. In these I specialize on women and their role in our society. I try to show women-bodies in such an art, that the spectator will be confronted with their suppression, pain and sometimes despair. In other nude-paintings I like to show the other side, women know as well: their strongness, powerfullness and magnitude.
PEACE DOVE Acrylic on canvas, 40x40, 2012
EVA CHATZAKI Eva Chatzaki was born in Athens on 1961. She studied German Philology at the Kapodistrian University of Athens, mainly because she was interested to work in education. Her love for Arts was the catalyst and savior for her life. For the last 22 years, she has been working as a teacher in high schools and lyceums in the public sector. Her favorite saying is “I’m not what happened to me, I’m what I choose to become” by K.G. Jung. Her life purpose is the continuous self-improvement (even with small steps), so that she’ll be able to offer whatever she can to her environment.
PATIO Digital photo, 40x50cm,2020
WALDEMAR MIROSLAW DABROWSKI Waldemar Miroslaw Dabrowski is an artist who lives and works in Poland. He started his career in the 1980’s. From 1985 to 1989 he was employed at Art Bureau in Wroclaw. His work includes painting, drawing, computer graphics, oil paintings, graphic works. He designs logos, posters, logotypes, advertisements, and web pages. He also develops computer generated photographs and retouches them and prepares texts for publication (DTP). He has participated in many individual and collective exhibitions in Poland and abroad.
THISTLES Graphic work on paper-cardboard, 42x30, 2022
DANIEL DE CULLA Daniel de Culla is a writer, poet, painter and photographer who lives and works in Spain. He is member of the Spanish Writers Association, Earthly Writers International Caucus, Poets of the World, International Authors, Surrealism Art, Friends of The Blake Society, Nietzsche Circle, and others. He is also Director of Gallo Tricolor Review, and Robespierre Review. He participated in many Festivals of Poetry, and Theater, and has collaborated and still does with various magazines such as: Otoliths, The Stray Branch, Down in the Dirt Magazine, Allien Buddha Zine, and others.
BOY NEXT TO SPIDER WEB Digital photo, 22x30cm,2021
RICHARD DETHLEFSEN Richard Dethlefsen is an autodidact Danish artist. Most of his life till now he creates artworks with acrylic on canvas. Over the years he has also made sculptures, digital art and photos. His art-world is not easy to be described in words, he therefore does it through his artworks. It is a combination of many factors put into his special kind of brain, that only he can refer to in his kind of art. But as he usually says: “listen to your eyes and make your own decision”. He has exhibited, among others, in USA, South Korea, Russia, Romania and several places in Denmark. Art is an international language and he loves it.
ABOUT NATURE Acrylic on canvas, 60x60cm, 2019
FLORA DIAMANTI Flora Diamanti was born in 1968 in Vironas, Attiki. She studied at the School of Fine Arts in the second workshop of Painting, under Ch. Botsoglou during 1989-1994, in CH.E.N of Athens during 19871989, pottery under Vera Siaterli, hardware technology under Kostas Tarkasis and wheel under Kostas Panaretos. Since 1978 she deals with pottery in the workshop of the Careas Civil Center with Maria Papayannakis. She is a member of the Chamber of Art since 1995 and of the Association of Art Teachers since 2012. She participates in group exhibitions and art activities, painting and ceramics. In 2006 she held the solo exhibition entitled “Aquamares-aquadreams” at the Art Park of Rhodes, and in 2017 the second solo, “On the occasion of the mask” at the Stathopouleio Cultural Center of the Vironas Municipality. She teaches painting and ceramics to adults and children at clubs, and works as an Arts teacher in primary & secondary and also special needs public education. She is president of ‘’the Association for the Promotion of Ceramics and Crafts’’ based in Vironas city since 2015.
MIKIS R.I.P. Acrylic on board, 40x40cm, 2021
AMEL DJENIDI Amel Djenidi was born in Algiers on June 19, 1983. After attending the High School of Fine Arts in Algiers where she obtained a degree in Graphic Design, she obtained an educational grant in Brera Fine Arts Academy in Milan, Italy and a Master of Art and Sciences in the High School of Fine Arts in Algiers. She worked as graphic designer in advertising agencies and animation studios. She realized the poster for the Hergla Festival of short movies in Tunisia and was voice off in Unicef advertisement for Algerian Channel. She took part in group exhibitions in Saronno (Italy) and Algiers and in some festivals with her videos. In 2010 she obtained a Nomination in Africa Movie Academy Awards in Bayelsa, Nigeria.
UNTITLED Digital photo, 36x44cm
FARAH DJAMILA DJENIDI Farah Djamila Djenidi was born in Algiers in June 14, 1979. Growing up in a world of color and drawing tools of any kind, at the age of 15 years I began to use computer tools, vector graphics software and image processing a few years later. In 1997, while waiting for my diploma of Technician in Marketing and Management (2001), I worked as Production Manager in a box advertising consultancy specializing in the illustration printed on “creation studio”. Since 2002 I joined in the creation of an advertising agency named “Imagina” where I am manager and responsible for the creation / graphic design.
CLIMATE FLOOD Computer graphic, 40x50cm, 2012
HENGAMEH FARAHMAND Hengameh Farahmand, born in Shiras-Iran In 1962, she lives and works in Hamburg-Germany. The most striking element in her painting is the passion for vivid colors and oriental motives, which she explores through the use of a wide range of unique mixed media techniques, resin, alcohol ink, colors pouring & patina art. She often blurs the boundaries between imagination and reality. The surfaces of her paintings are also a very important aspect of her work, the marks and textures and the play of light onto metallic surfaces brings a third dimension to works which often leave viewers transfixed. She has exhibited her works widely with a prominent exhibition at the open Air Gallery in Berlin, followed by several international exhibitions around the globe & more than 20 events & festivals mainly in collaboration with AthensArt.
SWAN DANCE Colour pouring art, 20x20cm2020
EVA FELLNER Eva Fellner was born in Hungary and she lives since 1977 in Vienna -Austria. She obtained her first award at the age of 14 by winning the first price of the Budapest school competition in the field of small sculptures. After matriculation, she worked as a restaurateur in the Hungarian National Gallery. In addition, she took five times a week courses in Desi Huber’s Artist circle. She also worked in the field of graphics and china paintings (porcelain) and ended successfully the course as a shop-window decorator. Furthermore she also visited courses at Art school Lazarettgasse in Vienna and Seminars by Prof. Fischer/Academy of Fine Arts and Professor Kaiser/University of Applied art as well in Vienna. She has participated in more than 100 exhibitions at home and abroad.
CONNECTION Oil on canvas, 40x30cm, 2019
WILLIAM GALLIANI William Galliani was born in 2002 and lives in Ghedi, Italy. I try to express to others a little of my vision of the world, of how I would like it to be! I propose my artistic vision to the public for the first time, whishing to contribute to a better world.
THE DUALITY & FRAGILITY OF THE INNER ROSE Photography on forex, 40x60cm, 2022
MANUEL GIACOMETTI Manuel Giacometti loves photography, art and graphics. I have been working as a still and moving image creator for 20 years, along with evolving technology and I have begun to serve myself well as a camera, Photoshop and other programs that I am well acquainted with. I think that the image as well as the sound, the words and the dance are important forms of communication, different ways of transmitting messages of Life. If men did not communicate any emotion it would be forced to die in our minds. Creating a feeling of having something that can continue to live and develop in the one who also notices, like a creature that speaks for itself and its creator, sometimes loudly, sometimes softly, almost not wanting to disturb anyone, but always with the enthusiasm and love of life that put a flower that has just blossomed to the test. The sense of every artist who works with the media today while maintaining the stylistic rigor that allowed yesterday’s results is fundamental: emotions.
SAND FLOWERS Triptich, Photography, 150x70cm, 2014
GIULIANO GIULIANI Giuliano Giuliani is an artist who lives and works in Italy. In his artworks we find indefinite atmospheres, far from the constraints of time, a combination of sensitive life and intuitions that nourish creativity. Spaces shaped by color, shapes enclosed in curved lines, in this apparent simplicity, images develop that make us discover a subtle common thread between mind and heart. Giuliano captures the enigma of women and translates them into pictorial, rhythmically chromatic musicality, with bright colors to tear us away from the gray of everyday life with limitless creativity, with a kaleidoscopic effect, on the canvas.
SHERAZADE Oil on canvas, 70x100cm, 2019
EVA GSTÖTTNER Eva Gstöttner was born in 1952 in Vienna, Austria. I worked in Brussels, Madrid and Vienna within international companies. After my retirement I dedicated myself fully to photography. Being interested in all kinds of themes, I do not restrict myself but try to stay open and learn from the best. I was graduated from the Prague Photo School of Applied and Artistic Photography. I have been taking pictures since I was 14 and my focus is still changing continuously. My photographic goal is always to tell a little story and maybe make a smile or something thought-provoking. Technic perfectionism is not in the foreground but rather the motive, my current mood or that of my human counterpart. “When ice melts between people, new friendships can emerge!”
ICE ART Photography, 33x50cm
JULIA GUERRERO Julia Guerrero was born in Bogotá, Colombia and took the Greek nationality in the 2003. From 1987 to 1990 she studied Plastic Arts at University Los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia and from 1990 to 1992 she studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Italy. During the same period she followed the school of Art Restoration in the Institute Arte Artigianato e Restauro, Rome. She has held 30 individual exhibitions and numerous collective ones mainly in Greece, Italy, England, Belgium, Austria, Colombia, Rusia, Ukraine and Turkey.
WOMEN IN ROSE Mixed media on canvas, 30x40cm, 2021
MARY HADDAD Mary Haddad is a painter who lives and works in Beirut, Libanon. My love for nature and colour was the reason for my achievements. I had academic lessons at different schools of art and photography (Al Nahar magazine). I had one solo exhibition in Copenhagen, and I have participated in many exhibitions in Europe, Carrousel de Louvre, Vienna Art fair, Dubai cancer survivors, Beirut Art fair, Sharm el Sheikh exhibition and several organized symposiums and art exhibitions.
ILLUSIONS Mixed media on canvas, 60x80cm, 2018
MONICA IATROU Monika Iatrou is a painter who lives and works in Vienna-Austria. Albert Schweitzer work “Reverence for life” is her view of daily living, including the protection of environment and species and a critical view of the development of society which is part of her life and work, focusing on fine arts, ghostwriting, cultural management and projects. She particularly criticizes inappropriate livestock farming methods as an inacceptable development, which, on the other hand also represents a corporate image whose lack of respect is manifested in many ways, especially in dealing humans behaviours with themselves. She prefers strong colors, especially red as it represents the blood of life. She usually does not give any title to her paintings, because she believes that: “The less we get influences from outside, the stronger is our own perception.” Since 2002 she presents her works in numerous group and individual exhibitions in public institutions, cultural centers and museums in Austria as well as in New York, Athens, Germany, Spain and Mexico. She was represented at the International Biennale of Florence and implements projects in the context of the creative economy.
ILLUSIONS Encaustsic on Paper, 40x30 cm, 2020
TZANETOS KAVALIOTIS Tzanetos Kavaliotis is a radio producer, writer, journalist, court reporter and store owner from Mani Peninsula, but currently based in Athens, Greece. He has graduated from the Department of Public Administration of Panteion University. He is the co-creator and chief editor of “anthem.gr”, a website about arts, pop culture and the underground musical scene of Greece. His show has been airing since 2016 on Radio Αlchemy. On January 2016 he published his first book “Dark Chapters” and he has also participated in two anthologies: “Shadows and Reflections” και “Even More Stranger Things”. On December 2019 he opened the hobby store “The Anthem Effect”, located in the southern suburbs of Athens. Finally, he is also the host of “Anthem.gr Podcast”, which is airing across 14 different platforms. Photography is his favorite hobby, because it allows him to express his emotions through the scope of a lens. He enjoys “capturing” all the different colors of sunsets and sunrises, urban corners, landmarks and treasured moments.
URBAN ATHENS Digital photo, 30x40cm, 2016
ASTRID KRÜGER Astrid Krüger was born in 1966. During the period 1998 – 2004 she studied stone sculpturing with Thomas Behrendt and from 2004 – 2006 painting at Freie Kunstschule, Hamburg. She has exhibited her artworks at several exhibitions, home and abroad, such as in GEDOK artforum, Hamburg (2021), Die Bedürfnisanstalt, Hamburg (2019), Fabrik der Künste, Hamburg (2014, 2015, 2016, 2018), Levantehaus, Hamburg (2014, 2016), Galeria la Escalera, Bogota, Colombia (2016), B.AGL Art afFairs, Berlin (2015), International Philantropic Exhibition, Monterrey, Mexico (2014), Embassy of Egypt, Athens (2014), Vienna Travel Gallery, Vienna (2011), Technopolis, Athens (2010). The ceramic vessel is the main topic in my painting since many years. I would like to portray the character and the special surface of the objects. My roots are the western tradition in still life and expression. My ambition is to include japanese tea philosophy and aspects like imperfection, spontaneity and a moment of silence and joy.
YELLOW CUP Oil & Acrylic on canvas, 40x40cm, 2015
PRABHINDER LALL Prabhider Lall is an Art Scholar, Architectural Artist, Art Curator, Studio Art Organizer of Art Fort India. He did his Masters in Applied Art from College of Art, Chandigarh Panjab University, Chandigarh in 1979. He has worked in the field of Art and applied Art. As a freelance Graphic Artist, he has worked with Alfred Allan Advertising, Lintas India, Marketing Mix Group India Ltd. As a Senior Visualizer and Art Director with Marketing Mix Group Private Limited. He has also held the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts, Applied Art and Animation in Lovely Professional University, Punjab India. He has participated in state, regional, national and international events of art. These include National Exhibitions of Art by Lalit Kala Akademi, N. Delhi, All India Art Exhibitions by All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society, New Delhi and Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Amritsar, All India Art Exhibitions of Drawings, Prints at College of Art, Chandigarh, Exhibitions of Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi and Punjab Lalit Kala Akademi and others. He has also participated in many Group Shows. His works have been collected by important art collections and museums like: Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, Museum & Art Gallery, Chandigarh, Museum, Punjabi University, Patiala, North Zone Culture Centre, Patiala; Himachal State Museum, Shimla and private collections in India and Nepal,Vietnam and Turkey etc. He has been awarded with the Senior Fellowship, Ministry of Culture, Government of India for 2012- 2013 in the field of Painting (Visual Art) for a period of two years with effect from August, 2014. Earlier, he has been awarded in All India Exhibition of Drawings at Chandigarh, All India Exhibition, Shimla and more
ENVIRONMENTAL LANDSCAPE Acrylic on canvas, 45x45cm, 2022
BARBARA MARCUCCI Barbara Marcucci was born in Milan, Italy in1976. “Osservare (to observe), Respirare (to breath), Ascoltare (to listen). These three words in Italian, reading the first letter of each, form the word ORA (NOW). Since I was a child I loved every single Breath that gave me the opportunity to grasp the Beauty, which surrounds our lives, through the spirit of observation and listening. I have always lived this way, a natural instinct that has allowed me, through art, to express my gratitude to life”.
THE ROSE GARDEN IN QUIET Oil on canvas, 40x60cm, 2017
DAN MC CORMACK Dan McCormack studied photography from 1962-67 at the Institute of Design and Art Institute of Chicago from 1967-70. In 1982, Dan McCormack won a NYSCA-CAPS Photography Fellowship with a series of nude images and produced a monograph, “BODY LIGHTPassages in a Relationship”. In 1998 Dan began to work with pinhole photography. In 2009, he won the Ultimate Eye Foundation’s grant for Figurative Photography and had his work featured in an exhibition at the Peninsula Museum of Art in Belmont, CA. In January 2010, Dan McCormack had a solo show at the Photography Center in Troy, NY, and in May 2018, had another show at the Photography Center in Troy, celebrating the publishing of his book of the same name. In 2022 he has exhibited at Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (“Body Beautiful”), Art Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY (“Colors”), Museum of Computer Art, New York,NY (“Donnie”), Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY (“Members Show”), PH Museum, Cell Phone Camera Nudes, London, Fredericksburgh Center, VA (“All Photography” ), Art Society of Kingston, Kingston, NY (“Interiors”), Finer Line Gallery, CAFA Winners, Mystic , CT, Connecticut Academy of Fibe Arts, won 3rd place, Foto Forum, Members Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Fredericksburg Center, Virginia (“All Photography”), Auto Gallery, Museum of Computer Art, online , Brooklyn, YICCA 2022, International Contest Contemporary Art, Italy, Members Show, Woodstock Artists Assoc. Woodstock, NY, Small Gallery, Woodstock Artists Assoc. Woodstock, NY , Maryland Federation of Art, MD (“Woman”), Fotofoto Gallery, Huntington, NY (“My Best Print”), WAAM, Woodstock, NY (“Active Members”) and more.
FINGERS Cell phone camera, 18x12cm, 2021
TAHAR OUAMANE Tahar Ouamane was born on 12 March 1954 in Biskra, in southern Algeria. He began his career in 1971 with paintings, Etchings, Frescoes, and Illustrations of literary books, furthering his training of etchings in Bulgaria 1975, Cuba 1978 and France 1993. To date, he has illustrated more than 250 literary works. He started exhibiting in 1975 in Algiers, Bulgaria and Germany. Since then Tahar has exhibited all over the workd: Spain, Switzerland, Italy, France, Tunisia, Washington - USA, Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, South Africa, South Korea, Greece, Russia, China, Austria, Mexico, Turkey, Oman, etc… He painted also many murals and ceramic in Algeria especially for Cultural institutions and universities. He worked at Ministry of Culture from 1978 to 2000. He obtained several awards in Algeria, Cuba, Russia and Arabic world. His works are in numerous private Collections, governments and museums around the world. He is a member of artistic associations around the world. Since 1974 he lives and works in Algiers.
CLIMBING-EMERALD OASIS Oil on paper, 35x100 cm, 2021
STJEPAN PERKOVIC Stjepan Perkovic is an artist that lives and works in Croatia. My life and art are marked by my birth. Due to cerebral palsy, which affected my hands, I use my legs skillfully so I write and paint with my left foot. I have been painting, illustrating and writing poetry since my young age in order to express the spirit that moves me from inside. I am a member of the international Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists (AMFPA). I graduated painting from Free Academy of Art in the class of Mr. Donald Hall in Croatia. I have participated painting course led by Professor Carmelo Puzzolo. Being a participant of great number of art colonies and workshops, traveling extensively, I have led art workshops for children in kindergartens and schools and for children with special needs, using my art as a bridge. I had 14 individual expositions and over thirty group ones. In 2017 I participated in the art fairs in New York City called New York ArtExpo, in Ljubljana ArtEXpo and Parallax Art Fair in London. I also participated in international collective exhibition in Athens, Greece under organization of CA4S-AthensArt and UNESCO of Piraeus & Islands. On April 2018 I was participant in a group international exhibition in Hong Kong.
SUNSET FRAME Acrylic on canvas, 60x50 cm
IRENE PETRAFESA Irene Petrafesa was born in Bari, Italy. After interrupting her studies at the Faculty of Law, the passion for painting became more and more popular and, since 2000, has led her to intensify her artistic activity and to transfer the innate one into her works. By invitation, she begins to take part, in Italy and abroad, in important contemporary art exhibitions and exhibition events of international importance among which Roma New Age in the prestigious event at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in ROME and also in Rome, International Review at Palazzo Barberini where he won the critics’ prize. Acquires the mention of European Artist, as part of the New Art Summer organized by European Community in Helsinki in Finland, and exhibits internationally in cultural and artistic events in Tenerife in Spain, in Salzburg, at the Sendai Mediateque exhibition in Japan. For her particular interest in the human condition, she is invited to participate in the Dreams Visions-Creations: The Positive Side of Life event in Athens. She has gained notable and numerous awards: the Barletta Provincia Prize, the Cultures in Confrontation International Show at the Castello Svevo di Trani, the Mondadori Art Prize in Milan, the First Prize for Painting at the Castello di Montegiardino in San Marino, the First Prize in Bari in the Puri e Simple Reflections of Puglia Review and the Sanremo 2000 Prize. Since 2004, an interesting series of personal exhibitions and reviews follow one another: Metropolitan fragments, Urban Visions, Emotional Tangents, Art / architecture and urban landscape. Among the personal and traveling exhibitions that best summarize her creative path: Fossils, Nonconforming Reality, Mediterranean, Ciminiere suggestions of memory and the current anthology at the Vittoriano Monumental Complex “Between land and sea”, Arcaico-Contemporaneo, Into the Blue.
BLUE DAY Oil and pastels on canvas, 140x140cm, 2020
ALEX RODRIGUES Alex Rodrigues is an artist who lives and works in India. He creates two unique and diverse styles of works of art. He paints with his bare hands, mainly using his fingers, calling it finger painting. He also emboss and engrave forms on paper without colour or tools, just using his hands. He has participated in numerous international exhibitions such as: London-2019 as curator and artist, at the indian high commission’s cultural centre, Bielsko Biawa, Poland-2018, the gallery at Sfera, a group show at the private gallery, Hampshire-2017, expressions art gallery, a group show, London-2017, Mehfil the Nehru centre, Cultural centre of the Indian High commission, London-2016, Asia house, a show with the old and new masters of India, Warwickshire-2016, “As You Like It”, a group show commemorating the 400yrs of Shakespeare at The Gallery Kenilworth, London-2016, Three Decades, the Nehru center, Cultural centre of the Indian High commission, Warickshire-2016, a group show at The Gallery, London-2015, a group show at the St. James Court, a Taj hotel, London-2014, the Nehru centre, Cultural centre of the Indian High commission, London-2014, a solo exhibition at the Southfields gallery, Dubai-2012, Araaish (fashion and art event), London-2011, a solo show at the Nehru Centre, High commission of India, Australia-2011, ‘India in Australia’, a solo exhibition of Finger painted paintings at the Zen Art Gallery–Brisbane, Germany-2010, “Artists for freedom”, Galileo Park- an international group exhibition on human trafficking to spread awareness on the subject through art, Greece, Athens-2010 “Friendship through art”, Project Dreams at the Four seasons Centre. He has also exhibited in India, in group and solo shows (Goa, Bombay, Auroville, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Delhi) and has conducted and participated in camps and workshops adressed to underpriviledged children.
CAMEL Acrylic on canvas, 20x20cm, 2020
MAGARITA TALIADOROU Margarita Taliadorou is an artist who lives and works in Greece. I am a Greek artist who was born in Cairo, Egypt, but grew up and studied in Switzerland. During my years in Switzerland, I learned the craft of china painting and decorating. At the age of 23, I moved to Greece, my homeland, where I worked for 25 years as an electrical engineer. I studied painting in the workshop of the Greek painter Charalampos Psychakis. While pursuing my interest in painting, I began writing and illustrating children’s books.
STORK Acrylic on canvas, 100x90cm, 2020
GIOULI TSAGARAKI Giouli Tsagaraki was born in Kavala of Greece in 1975. She studied Theater at the National Theater of Greece in Athens and also Drama at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Aristotle University of Salonica. She is involved in Theater and also as instructor in groups of children, teenagers and adults.
SAFRAN Digital Photo, 50x40cm, 2021
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