CENTRE OF ARTS 4 SEASONS AthensArt International Arts Festival 5200 Members 7 Continents 154 Countries
Oropos/Greece 2015
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
CA4S-ATHENSART SHORT CV 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. For 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 Greece in Naxos in the Former Ursuline School and in Corfu in the Patio of Corfu’s Psychiatric Hospital. On 2013 we have been in Gallery Apartment No 10 of Odessa/Ukraine. On 2014 we were present in Bispgården/Sweden, invited by HARDEKO, in Vienna/Austria in Gallery Paul and Sonia Siblik and in Monterrey/Mexico in Centro Cultural Loyola, realizing a Philanthropic Exhibition, titled “La joie de la vie” in collaboration with Arte Desarrollo Humano, Prints for Peace México and Centro Cultural Loyola de Monterrey dedicated to the children of Mexico.
CA4S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Our journey to Oropos / Greece, started 25 years ago, when we built our Centre in Sykamino, a village nearby Oropos. All these years we wished to have the opportunity and organize an AthensArt Festival in Oropos, promoting this beautiful place of Attiki and offering a wind of international culture. The chance came when the Municipality of Oropos, and more specifically K.E.D.O., its Public Benefit Coroporation, embraced our idea and wated to organize together our this year’s AthensArt International Arts Festival, in the Municipal Conservatory. The Administration’s Council of the Centre of Arts 4 Seasons CA4S-AthensArt would like to thank everyone who helped to realize this Event, as well as our Friends who opened their houses and ateliers, guesting our Friends, from Greece and abroad that are present in Oropos. We also thank Elafos Rooms, Agro Centre and and Darius Carpets, for their sponsorships. We thank, also, our good Friends from AthensArt Designer’s Group, who prepared our Invitation-Program, Poster and e-catalogue. For 2016 and on, we have been invited from USA, Mexico, Finland, Italy, Russia, Egypt and Madagascar. Finally, we would like to invite all our Friends for 2015 to our next stop of AthensArt International Arts Festival, in Mitrofan Grekov Museum (1/9-15/9/2015) & Kamensky Pedagogical College (16/9-20/10/2015) in Rostov on Don / Russia, continuing in these troubled times, to spread our idea of FRIENDSHIP through Art that can change the World Peacefully. Litsa Marandi, CA4S-AthensArt Secretary
FOR A PEACEFUL TRANSITION TO PARTICIPATIVE DEMOCRACY “All that I know is that I am not a Marxist” Karl Marx Dearest Friends, With our presence in this historic building, our profound desire is to honour all those who, after 1933, and especially during the dictatorship (1967-1974), defended, with their own lives, the ideals of Democracy in Greece, being imprisoned in this particular building. Unfortunately, although this historic building complex, has been granted to the local authorities by the State, since 1998, it has not yet received, the necessary restoration and renewal that is required, in order to function as a contemporary Centre for Democracy and Culture, of the highest standards. We all know that Democracy was born in this country 2.500 years ago, but unluckily it has not yet been enough developed, so to inspire confidence and security to its citizens. Therefore, it is my strong belief that our duty is to strengthen Democracy, by proceeding, peacefully, from today’s tyranny of markets, to a Society of Citizens, means to a Participative Democracy. Our International Artists and Art Lovers Community, AthensArt, numbering, up to now, over 5100 members from 154 countries, and having “Friendship through Art can change the World,” as its motto, tries to fulfil this duty by organizing cultural events, for the last 36 years, in Museums, Pinacotheques, Cultural Centres and Galleries, in Greece, Europe and the entire World. The next 10 years are very crucial because still nothing has been finalized, and, it depends solely on us if Participative Democracy will finally prevail, or if we are going to be in much worse situations, where the current dictatorship of the markets will give its place to an unimaginable barbaric and fascistic society.Thank you and be strong. Prof. Dr. Takis Alexiou, CA4S-AthensArt Chairman, Oropos August 2015
GREETING OF THE PRESIDENT OF K.E.D.O.
I would like to welcome and thank all the artists and visitors who participate in this great artistic and cultural call that reached many corners of the world and gathered us here, in Oropos, in this historical place of the Old Prison, where the Municipal Conservatory is now housed. I warmly thank the President of the Centre of Arts 4 Seasons, Mr. Takis Alexiou and personally our Mayor Mr. Thomas Roussis, my colleagues from K.E.D.O., all local institutions and employees, who contributed to the organization of this year’s International Arts Festival AthensArt, in Oropos. Together we send a powerful message of culture and creativity that surpasses our own borders and reaches the ends of the earth. Stefanos Davris, The Presidend of K.E.D.O.
PROGRAM OF PARALLEL EVENTS
SUNDAY AUGUST 16, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Opening Night with few words from Mr. Thomas Roussis, Mayor of Oropos, Mrs. Eleana Kapranou, Director of K.E.D.O., Mrs. Soultana Mammi, Responsible for the Cultural Events of K.E.D.O., Prof. Dr. Takis Alexiou, Chairman of Centre of Arts 4 Seasons-AthensArt and AthensArt Representatives from Italy, Spain, Austria, Sweden, Russia, Israel and USA-China. All Events will be presented by Mrs. Giouli Tsangaraki, actress. The exhibition of artworks by AthensArt artists is consisted by 4 sections: 1) Main exhibition, with artworks of professionals and amateurs artists and video projections, by 58 artists from 32 countries. 2) Collective artworks exhibition, by 36 artists from 17 countries. 3) Children’s painting exhibition. 4) Philanthropic exhibition of artworks for sale, the revenues of which will be offered to support the local common meal. A piano recital follows by Mrs. Rachel Yiouna, musician, with Greek music. Kapandriti’s Agricultural Cooperative will offer sweets and delicacies from its products. Catering will follow. TUESDAY AUGUST 18, 2015, 10:00 a.m. A guided tour to the Amfiaraion archeological area in Kalamos, Oropos. THURSDAY AUGUST 20, 2015, 10:00 a.m. A guided tour to museums of Oropos area. SATURDAY AUGUST 22, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Speech - Dialogue on “ Way of Life in bees and human society”, by the beekeeper-producer Mr. Isidoros Tsiminis. SUNDAY AUGUST 23, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Greek music by Mr. Nasos Katsinas, autodidact musician, in guitar and vocals. WEDENSDAY AUGUST 26, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Conference on “DEMOCRACY: From the tyranny of the markets to the Society of Citizens”. Prof. Dr. Takis Alexiou, Coordinator FRIDAY AUGUST 28, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Mrs. Virginia Kokkinou, narrator, will present fairytales from Greece, Africa and China. SATURDAY AUGUST 29, 2015, 7:00 p.m. Adults Choir of Kapandriti will present traditional and Greek folk songs under the direction of Mrs. Hara Dede, chorister. SUNDAY AUGUST 30, 2015, 7:00 p.m. The Dance Section of Avlonas’ Cultural Center will present a program of traditional dances from Asia Minor, Epirus, Aegean Islands and other areas of Greece, under the direction of Mrs. Vivi Kallini, choreographer. At the end Catering will follow.
DOBA AFOLABI Doba Afolabi was born in the mountains of southwest Nigeria and credits his mother, a versatile dancer, as the fundamental force behind his flair for expressions. Monet, Van Gogh Degas and Yoruba stylized carvings were later influences while he studied at the University catching with the spirit of the Zaria art avant garde tagged the ‘Zaria Rebels’ style of the famous Zaria art school where he graduated. Doba worked as a graphic artist with the British overseas development of the UN and taught at Yaba College of technology in Lagos Nigeria prior to his coming to New York. His success at several exhibition and the academics propelled his momentum. His ‘Women’s Day’ won a regional poster project with the WHO and it was placed at several centers around the country and beyond. He is proud of his first solo exhibition tagged ‘Buffalo Soldier’ in 1999 at the art district of North East Miami in Florida and several other shows curated by Asmar b art gallery which launched his fame among the scholars thereby initiating him as a relevant force at the annual Black History Month art shows at the Florida International University. Doba later extended his tents far and wide enough to be recognized at the popular 2001 Brooklyn Fulton art Fair by his mentor and spiritual father, Otto Neal. He is well known at various art galleries after working briefly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the City and has featured alongside the art biggies most especially at the great Dorsey Gallery which produced the likes of Romare Bearden, Otto Neal, and Dr Ojo who connected him with Emmit Wigglesworth.
PICASSO REVEALED! Acrylic on canvas, 45x60cm, 2010
TAKIS ALEXIOU Takis Alexiou, born in Alexandria of Egypt, studied architecture in Germany and completed a pioneering Dissertation linking architecture to psychology. He has given lectures at European Universities and was Professor at the HFG Offenbach/M. in Germany and at the AUA University of Athens. He has held many private and group art exhibitions: TU Dresden, S&S Basil, Forum des Halles & Maison International du Théâtre Paris, Palazzo Venezia Venice, Royal Festival Hall London, Greek Press Center New York, NTOG Tokyo, Attatürk Cultural Center Istanbul, Art Addiction Stockholm, Melina Merkouri Hall Nicosia, Salvagos and Kavafis Halls Alexandria, Kreonides Gallery – Polyplano – Adam Gallery Athens, Old French Knights’ Quarters Rhodes and many others. He is active in music composition: Under one’s Breath, The song of the birds, Voices without a Face & Red Wind. He was granted first Diploma at the International Art Addiction, Stockholm. ABI (USA) included him amongst the 5000 personalities in the world and awarded him with the International Peace price 2010 for practicing peace in thought, action and example locally and globally and IBC of Cambridge (UK) awarded him as one of the 2000 Intellectuals of 20th century. On 2006 he was awarded with the “International Cavafy prize”. His name is mentioned in various Encyclopaedias and Art Diaries. He has written numerous articles, studies and books.
THE BLUE SAMURAI Mixed media on canvas, 100x150cm, 2015
APOSTOLIS ANASTASOPOULOS Apostolis Anastasopoulos was born in Athens in 1982.His first contact with photography was at his early ages, looking at his family pictures when they were refugees from Asia Minor. He always remembers a big, green box full of dust , black and white photos of people who he did not know and stories that came alive in front of him. The time has passed but the magic and flame of photography was burning and it finally won. So he decided to follow its magical light. He is a professional Wedding and Fashion photographer. He loves Art Photography so he creates his own concepts framed by his own words and thoughts like shots of his movie. He has participated in both group and solo exhibitions. He has photographed Theatrical Performances, Art Events and people from the world of art and Fashion. He has collaborated with many wellknown designers, photographing them and their creations. Something that he often says: If we observe behind every art work or every shot, we discover its creator. The photo to me is not just the depiction of reality but the capture of emotions. Photo is the expression of the moment which will not perish no matter how much time has passed.
UNTITLED Digital print, 40x30cm
KARIN ANGELE Karin Angele was born in Ulm (Germany) on May 13, 1965. She is an artist and actress. She studied at the Institute of Free Arts, Stuttgart, at the Technical College of Trier. Her major subject is Design II, Certified Fashion-Designer. She studied with Prof. Erich Kraemer at the FH Trier, at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York. She was honored by the Government of Palatinate as class valedictorian of Technical College of Design (1994). She was awarded by the WilhelmLorch-Award, Wilhelm-Lorch-Foundation, Frankfurt (1995) and was nominated for the “Lexmark European Art Prize Award 2004” (2004). She took part to a film Production Colonia Media GmbH and was the costume stylist for a daily-soap opera (1995). She has worked as an assistant at European Academy of Fine Arts, Trier, in the class of life painting (1997-97). She is also a Lecturer in life drawing and painting, Lecturer in figurative drawing and free figuration, Painting – RealismAbstraction (Since 1997), Lecturer in free figuration (Since 2005). She took part to many exhibitions, home and abroad. She lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Fragments conform to the whole / truths exist on parallel levels / in nonexistent times / senses perceive differently / depending on views’ angles / conclusive offering / various perspectives / insights into depths call for transparency
CAMI Digital print, 70x50cm, 2010
THEODOSIA ARGYRAKI ASSARGIOTAKI Theodosia Argyraki Assargiotaki was born in Heraklion Crete where she lives, works, paints and writes poetry, drama, novel, mainly for children. She does visual studied and presented the art in thirty-seven solo and group exhibitions. Her first solo exhibition, Heraklion Crete 1997. She teaches painting to children and adults, and people with disability. She participates in international Biennale, arts festival, Greek and international symposia and conferences. Her work has been published in books, arts albums and magazines. She has organized the direction and created scenery and costumes for theatrical performances. Honored with Greek art and international awards. Her work can be found in private and public collections in Greece and abroad.
IMERTI
PANOS ARVANITIS Panos Arvanitis was born in Athens 1991. He is a graduate of Civil Engineering and member of CA4S-AthensArt Administration’s Council, representing the Young Generation. Among his hobbies is Photography and Video.
ON A CLEAR DAY Digital photo, 35x45cm, 2015
SENITA BERGSMAN Senita Bergsman is a painter, born in St. Kopparberg Falun/Sweden, who lives and works in Gothenburg/Sweden My paintings are abstract to reflect my inner me - my feelings and emotions - What you see on the surface is just a shadow of me... The paintings come to me in a sense of colour, shape or texture. I paint in acrylic and I use different mediums to produce contrasting textures and structures, for example; paper, sand, modeling paste, various kinds of solvents, lava, snow and rain.
SPLITTING IN TWO Acrylic on canvas, 50x50cm, 2010
ELENA BISSINGER Elena Bissinger is an artist and poet, born on 2 January 1964, at Beius, Bihor, Romania. She is the first child of a family of 5 girls and her father was painter by profession. She graduated at Art School Francis Hubik Oradea and licensed at the Faculty of Visual Arts, Oradea at painting department. In 1997 she made the first art exhibition followed by many others in the country and abroad, especially in Illingen menzionez Germaia, Dien Hilfs Haushalts in 2005. She has participated in international art camps winning the award “Golden Brush” 2010 in Bosnia and Herzegovina organized camp-BRCKO, gallery LIKUM. She has also participated in various exhibitions organized in Las Vegas attending the World Art Foundation 2010 with painting “Green”. Her name is to be found in distinguished art catalogs and publications in 2011 Contemporary International Artists’ ICA vol PUBLISHING and in International Dictionary of Artists vol.1. In June 2010 she opened an art gallery at Maryelen, Beius ,together with one of her sisters, an artist too. In 2011 she received the Diploma of Excellence (Honorable Award)-MAB 3 / MEDIA 3.ART Biennial 2011, Art Addiction International Gallery Launched from Sweden and in August 26, 2012 the first prize of expressiveness to the work “Interpretare” on Comunitateadearta, Bucharest. On February 6, 2012 she started with poetry and paintings at “Armonii culturale”. Relevant Trade dream Paintings 2011-2012 organized at the Tablouri de vis at Palatul Parlamentului Sala Brancisi Bucuresti. In March 22, 2012 she participated in a charity organized by the Art Revolution Taipei “Hundreds of Celebrities’ Charity Sale”.
EYELASH EARTH Oil on canvas, 80x80cm, 2015
ELENA BOLGOVA Elena Bolgova was born in Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol region, Russia (1973). She lives and works in Saint Petersburg/Russia. She was educated in Saint Petersburg State Academy of Arts and Design, Book Graphics and Illustrations Department. She is member of Russia Artists Association from 2003. She collaborated with publishing houses as illustrator and artistic editor, with architectural bureau as mural painting artist. In present she is free-license artist. She paints in oil and watercolors. In my work, I aspire to capture that “something else” and to recreate the feeling of “being there”. Atmosphere, emotion and the transmission of light fascinate me. It goes beyond mere rendering to seeing beyond the outline into a scene’s essence. It is not enough to merely paint the literal view. One needs to bring out the spirit that lies within. It is this emotionality that I am after. One image that would stand alone and tell the story. The painting must connect you to the place in the way words cannot. If I can make you feel this emotionality, then I have succeeded.
ISLAND Oil on canvas, 50x50 cm, 2015
EMANUELA BUSSU Emanuela Bussu is an amateur photographer who lives in Sardinia / Italy.
UNTITLED Digital photo, 30x40 cm, 2015
JELICA CULAFIC Jelica Culafic was born in Titograd/Montenegro. She graduated from Algonquin College of Fine Arts and Crafts, Ottawa, Canada, and University of Fine Arts, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. She is holder of Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Fine Arts, Belgrade. She attended a Specialization multimedia and animation course at ESAV, Geneva, Switzerland. She is recipient of scholarships and the winner of numerous prizes, national and international. She has held numerous national and international solo and group Fine Arts exhibitions. Her works are to be found in public and private collections. She is an activist, freelancer and member of professional association AIAP, AAVS, CitĂŠ Internationale des Arts, AIA, Figuration Critique, AthensART
DOMINO Digital photography, 21x30 cm
DALIBOR DADO CETKOVIC Dalibor Dado Ćetković was born in Montenegro in town Bar 22.11.1982 year. Four-year secondary art school “Petar Lubarda” was completed in Cetinje(MNE) 2001 by Professor Goran Sekulić, department of painting. That same year he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje(BiH). He graduated in 2007 in a class by Professor Marko Musović on the painting department. From 2008 he became a member of the Association of Fine Artists Montenegro – ULUCG. Until now he had twelve solo exhibitions and over twentyfive group exhibitions at home and abroad. He lives and works in the Bar.
ACTING Mixed media on canvas, 24x18cm, 2015
PARASKEVI DAVRI Paraskevi Davri was born on March 9, 1960. She paints since she was 8 and she has attended painting courses for 2 years at Christian Youth Association and 3 years at Public Benefit Corporation of Oropos. She has 3 kids and she lives in Chalkoutsi, Oropos.
WILD FLOWER Oil on canvas, 40x90cm, 2013
DANIEL DE CULLA Daniel de Culla was born on 1955. He is a writer, poet, and photographer. He is also a member of the Spanish Writers Association, Director of the Gallo Tricolor Review, and Robespierre Review. He’s moving between North Hollywood, Madrid and Burgos, Spain. He has more than 70 published Books.
ERECTION Collage & HandDrawing 40x29,5cm
RICH. DETHLEFSEN Rich. Dethlefsen was born in Denmark 1956. He has been making different kind of arts for the last 45 years. He has made exhibitions in many different cities all over the world, as shown in his CV. (Rizh-art. dk). Hi is making art because he can’t let it be, something is driving him to do it he don’t know what, but he love to do it. The form of expression is something between symbolistic and expressionistic. His motto is: “Listen to your eyes, and make your own decision”. He get his inspiration from everywhere and it comes to him like a flash, even when he sleeps he gets new ideas, he can also get it from troubleshooting other things, you always get a free win when you are troubleshooting. As child he was very creative and he was driving his parents crazy during funny things all the time, his curiosity was bigger than his fear and still is. He just want to have some fun with all kinds of people and from everywhere, art is an international language, and he loves it.
UNTITLED Oil on canvas, 40x40cm, 2014
ELENI DIMOPOULOU Eleni Dimopoulou was born in Athens in 1959. She works in Agia Paraskevi (Athens). She studied in the YMCA and her teachers were Areti Floka in Hagiography, George Barounis in murals and Dimitris Stravolemis in art restoration. She has been teaching the art of Icon painting - Mural in the Metropolis of Attica and in the Western Attica’s Prefecture, adult education department, from 1995. She is an art conservator in Maritime Tradition Museum since 2000, where some of her works can be seen. She worked with the European Institute of Maritime studies and research from 1998 until 2002 for the restoration of its artworks. She has restored frescoes and icons in the Church of Saints Constantine and Helen in Agioi Anargyroi. She has participated in the following exhibitions of Byzantine Iconography: December 1999, in the House of correspondents of foreign press (solo), October 2000 and church species in EKEP (group), July 2003 under the auspices of the Municipality of Agia Paraskevi (group), August 2004 at the Maritime Tradition Museum (solo), June 2007 in the Agioi Anargyroi(individual), September 2009 at the Duchess Placentia Palace, Penteli (solo).
MOTHER OF GOD
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 to 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 Photography, 36x44cm
FARAH DJENIDI Farah Djenidi was born on June 14, 1979 in Algiers. She was growing up in a world of colors and drawing tools of any kind, at the age of 15 years she began to computer tools using vector graphics software and image processing a few years later . On 1997, while waiting for her diploma of Technician in Marketing and Management (2001), she worked as Production Manager in a box advertising consultancy specializing in the illustration printed on "creation studio". From 2002 she joined in the creation of an advertising agency named "Imagina" where she is manager and responsible for the creation / graphic design. On 2012, as part of an international project with Pr. Takis Alexiou to promote friendship through art "AthensArt ODYSSEIA", she exposed in the international arts festival in Greece (Corfu and Naxos).
VENTURE CAPITALIST Computer graphic, 68x54cm, 2009
HENGAMEH FARAHMAND Hengameh Farahmand was born in Shiraz/Iran on 1962. She lives and works in Hamburg/Germany. The most striking element in Hengameh's paintings is her passion for vivid colours and oriental motives ,which she explores through the use of a wide range of unique mixed media techniques. She is often blurring 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 transďŹ xed. Hengameh has exhibited her works widely with a prominent exhibition at the Open Air Gallery in Berlin, followed by several international exhibitions around the globe such as, Athens (Athens Art/2010), Vienna Travel Gallery, the Acquire Arts Gallery in London, Grekof Museum Rostov on Don/ Russia, Veakio open air Theater of Piraeus in Athens dedicated to Peace and other group exhibitions in Crete, Chora of Naxos and Corfu, International Prints for Peace in Mexico (2013 & 2014) and International Arts Festival BispgĂĽrden in Sweden. Her last works exhibited in Masoumeh Seyhoun Gallery in a Group Exhibition in Los Angeles on DEC 2014 under title "The Last in 2014".
GOLD MOUNTAIN Acrylic and gold leaf on wood, 30x30cm, 2012
MARIO FOIS Mario Fois was born in Nuoro in 1971 where he lives and works. Since the end of the 80s, he begins operating around aerosol art and street culture. After several years of intense activity - without detaching from the artistic spirit that has marked the first expression – he comes to traditional painting techniques on canvas, with particular attention to the use of colour of American abstract expressionism. At half-90s he is one of the founders of “Kentu Concas Kentu Berrittas” an artistic movement characterized by the maximum individual freedom and an intense exhibition activity. In recent years Fois has been protagonist of various solo exhibitions, which prove his ability in using effectively different techniques and formats - moving from micro to macro without ever losing sight of the meaning of painting as a gesture of liberation. He took part to various collective and solo exhibitions in different places including MAN - the Museum of Nuoro and Berlin. His works are in public and private collections.
MASK Ecoline on paper, 30x40cm, 2015
ANTONIO GALLUZZI Antonio Galluzzi after frequenting the academy of Belle Arti in Brera, has numerous exhibitions of his work both personal and collective. In 1993 he founded together with Franco a group called Interzone, under that pseudonym his art was wildly exposed nationally and internationally. He was able to continuously find original veins of expression that captured artistic interest. Some of their Art Video work is being aired on various important television networks. The latest research of Galluzzi, which started more than 20 years ago, has brought him to the forefront of the world of digital art. The components of his compositions have a very researched balance. His new white tones are dazzling and make a striking counterpoint with the material, his mode of expression is between fullness and emptiness, a confrontation between everything and nothing, opposites locked in an eternal conflict. Galluzzi has returned through the avant-garde use of technological instruments to an occupation with the evanescence of the material. In the confront of his art, one asks oneself what substance are the figures composed of, marble and flesh? Of fog and human skin? Of stone and smoke? But this is OUR own question, one wonders what is his. Always the material corresponds to the spirit (white and colors), so his question is perhaps, "from which substance are made the gods?". Galluzzi imagines to be close to the abyss, where all the elements that make up history live, and to break them to find the cracks in the scheme of things. His works are the howl of Godzilla.
MYSTERIOUS TRAVELLER
ANTONINO GAMBINO Antonino Gambino was born in 1954 in Palermo(Itay) where he lives and works. Since he was very young ha has always lived in a artists’ family and he has developed a great passion for the sea which brought him first to devote himself to naval modeling. After some time this passion for the workmanship of the wood has brought him to apply the acquired techniques to the wooden inlay, through the workmanship of the thin wood. The works realized with this technique have been exhibited in a personal expositions in 2000 in Palermo, it follows different personal expositions. Today his works are in the house of privates who have appreciated the virtuosity of his techniques of ancient origins that he has used again with a contemporary and unique artistic language.
DAL CAOS NON A CASO NASCE COSA Wooden inlay 80x80cm, 2015
SYMEON GIANNIKAKIS Symeon Giannikakis was born in Alexandria of Egypt. His origin is Rethymnon Crete. He spent three (3) years with the painter Anthi Leousy-Caratza in her atelier, from 1968 until 1970. He graduated in 1970, from AKTO having professors Spyros Vasileiou, Vlassis Vellios and Alexander Giannakas. Ιn 1973 he acquired Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Marketing. In 1975, he exhibited for the first time his artwork, in Gallerie Presidentielle Du Zaire, Av. Charles De Gaulle, Kinshasa, Zaire. In 1981 he exhibited his artworks in cooperation with the painter and sculptor Ortji Nwafor, in the showroom Hermes, Itapeju str., Apapa, Nigeria. In 1983 he returned to Greece and he participated in many individual and group exhibitions in Greece. He is a member of the groups Athens Arts and Greek – Egyptian Artists. Currently he lives and works in Maroussi.
PHANTOMS OF THE PAST Oil on canvas, 120x100cm, 2015
TATIANA GLINSKY Tatiana Glinsky was born on 1963. She has a degree in electrical engineering (Novosibirsk State Technical University) and she is college photographer. She seriously does photo at least 30 years. She is nature photographer. Looking through the lens she tries to show how beautiful is our small world. She creates the composition of the elements of nature and objects of the world of people. She is also doing paint (few), clothes modeling and landscape design. My work can be described in words: ".... and to focus all the time to look look look ..... catch the beauty of a moment and his eternal meaning, begin to understand ,that everything else -vanity''
WINDOW TO THE WORLD OF ILLUSIONS Photography, 60x50cm, 2011
EKATERINA GRECHANI Ekaterina Grechani was born in Saint Petresburg, Russia. She studied painting and Monumental Arts at Higher Arts Industry Mukhina Academy (1996-2001). She works up in the programs: Corel DRAW, Adobe Photoshop, Аdobe Illustrator, 3ds Max. She likes to bring her ideas to the perceptible material object, that is to say to graphical interior working with different modern materials. She has exhibited her artworks at: ART-project “Petersburg – Konievetz: six centuries after”, “The unexpected Petersburg” ART-city gallery (2002), “Voices of the Moon” JEAM-HOAL at the Petrogradskaya (2003), “Point of View” Art Exhibition in the IFA gallery, “From the Avangard to Our Time” Painters Union (2004), “From the Avangard to Our Time” Painters Union, “Firtree in the jam” JEAM-HOAL at the Petrogradskaya.”2006. “Russian Landscape in the beginning of the XXI century” The NAIV gallery (2005), “Autumnal Salon” The Books-Graphic Center of the SP.-b (2006), “Autumnal Salon” The Books-Graphic Center of the SP.-b (2007). Her works are also found in private collections in Russia, Europe, and America. She lives and works in St. Petersburg.
MOYKA Oil on canvas, 80x75cm
JUNE GRĂ˜NSETH June Grønseth is a photographer. She is a member of Norsk Selskap for fotografi, a member of PSA from September 2014, an FIAP artist approved on March 2015. She has achieved bronze, silver and gold plaquettes from NSFF in 2014 and has won 3 silver medals, 2 bronze medals and 12 Honorary mentions. I am truly in love with nature and collect all the beauty my eyes observe in nature; colors, light and strange patterns with my camera. I live in Norway, Lofoten archipelago, above the polar circle. Most of my pictures are taken here in Lofoten region, where weather constantly change and the seasons vary from almost dark days in winter, to bright nights during summer when we have the midnight sun from May to July.
COMET PAN STARRS AND AURORA Photograph, 90x44 cm
JULIA GUERRERO Julia Guerrero was born in Bogota, Colombia, in 1969 and took the Greek nationality on the 2003. From 1987 to 1990 she studied Plastic Arts at University Los Andes, in Bogota Colombia and from 1990 to 1992 she studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, Italy, and during the same period she follow the school of art restoration in the Italian Institute Arte Artigianato e Restauro Roma. Her individual and collective expositions have been numerous, mainly in Greece, Italy, England, Brussels, Austria, Ukraine, Russia, Mexico, Colombia and Turkey. She has participated in the Athens Biennial and her works of art belong to numerous collections of museums, Foundations and Cultural centers in Colombia, Italy, France, Mexico, Brazil, and in Greece such as Contemporary Art Center of Larisa, Multicultural Center Athinais in Athens, the Pieridis Foundation in Athens, the National Gallery of Lefkada, the National Gallery of Piraeus, the Vorre Museum in Peania, the Maria Callas Museum in Athens, the DOGA Foundation of Istanbul, Turkey, the Gregof Museum Art and Craft, Russia, the Museum de Odessa, Ukraine and the Melina Mercouri Foundation in Athens.
LANDSCAPE Acrylic on canvas,20x20cm, 2015
MONICA IATROU Monica Iatrou has participated in group shows and single exhibitions since 2002 in public places, cultural centers and museums in Austria; Internationale Biennale for Contemporary Art in Florence, Broadway Gallery in SoHo, Castellon (Spanien), Castrop-Rauxel, Ruhr 2010, "Parallax Art Fair", SoHo, Berlin, Mexico, Leverkusen. Making the invisible visible is important for me in my paintings as well as in my seminars and publications. I am very inspired by human beings, but especially I put my attention on "Reverence for life" (Albert Schweitzer) as my view of daily living and in my artworks as well. I love strong colours, especially red as the blood of life, and paint in series on issues which are affecting me in my life. My paintings do not have any title, because: "The less we are determined from outside, the stronger one's perception." is my mayor concern. Usually I work with the materials oil & acrylic, coal, oilpastels on canvas, paper, wood. To get in contact with artworks takes time and those viewers perhaps discover the same thing that Milton Fletcher writes in the NY Arts Magazine about my work: "Monika Iatrou also investigates figuration and the body, but as a mode of questioning physical alienation. In her most compelling work, depicting a gaunt, angular human face with hollow eyes, she echoes a German Expressionist aesthetic, yet transcends it through a particularly postmodern perspective. Here she self-consciously emphasizes the subject-object looking relationship, making the subject (or viewer) painfully self-aware of his objectifying gaze of “the other�, resulting in a reevaluation of the hegemonic structures informing the looking relationship he participates in.
THAN CAME HOMOS CUMSUMENS Mixed media on canvas,46x53cm, 2015
JASPALS Jaspals was born in India in 1958. He lives and works at Hoshiarpur, India. He has had earned an M.A. in Fine Art and an M.A. in Art History at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is now doing Research on “Kushana Art of Sanghol� (A Buddhist Art Center of Second and Third Century A.D. in Punjab). His interests are photography, archaeology, heritage and astrophysics. He has participated in National Exhibitions, Drawing Biennale, Solid, World Punjabi Conference, Art Fest, Punjabi University, World Punjabi Conference, Art Fest, Punjab Lalit Kala Academy, Chandigarh, Young artists Art Festival Reggio Emilia, Italy. He has been represented in various all India level Art Exhibitions & State level Art Exhibitions throughout India since 1979. He has exhibited his work in solo shows (Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, Kala Gram, North Zone Culture Centre, Chandigarh, Indusind Bank Art Gallery, Chandigarh) and group shows (TAC Art Gallery, Ludhiana, Young Artist Art Fest Reggio Emilia/Italy, Punjab: at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, Colours of India, Common Art Gallery, Windsor, Canada, Brijindra College, Faridkot). He has received many awards (Punjab Art Heritage Award, Jalandhar (Punjab), 1997 and 1998 / Merit Award, Indian Society of Oriental Arts, Calcutta (West Bengal), Honourable Mention in U.S.A. Millennium Hall of Fame, 20th Century Achievement Award and Distinguished Leadership Award for outstanding contribution to Contemporary Art, North Carolina, USA., 1998, Best Exhibit Award, Punjab Lalit Kala Academy, Chandigarh, 2009). He has also participated in many art organizational works, campaigns, seminars and workshops for AIDS, Ecology, Heritage, painting demonstration etc.
DESIRE Acrylic on canvas, 45x60cm, 2013
CONSTANTINA KONDOPOULOU Constantina Kondopoulou is born in 1987 and is a PhD candidate in Cultural studies and Literature. She holds a BA (hons), MA Â in English linguistics and literature and has completed a master degree in Psychology. She uses frames, poetry, films and photographs in her teaching process through creative activities, especially for students with dyslexia and ADHD. She has participated in various art exhibitions in Thessaloniki and has received a scholarship for a digital arts program due to her unemployment status in 2012.Â
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ELENI KATSOULA-KORONEOU Eleni Katsoula-Koronaeou was born in Athens, Greece, on January 27, 1950. She studied design, painting and batik. She draws her inspiration from a great variety of sources, either mythology or everyday life. Many of her works bear a naturalistic character. She generally uses expressionistic colours; some of her creations have naïve elements and rarely surrealistic ones. She is member of ETEE – Chambers of Fine Arts of Greece, of UNESCO, of DEEL – International society of Greek Writers, of Panhellenic Society of Athens Archibiscopacy, Panhellenic Society of Civilization, Letters and Arts, Friends of Classical Athletic Group “Olympia”, The Panhellenic Organisation of Women “PANATHINAIKI”, Home of Cypriot Culture “HOME OF CYPRUS”, Collective Administration’ s Organisation of Figurative Arts and their Applications (O.S.D.E.E.T.E.). She exposed her works in 12 solo exhibitions and in 133 collective ones. She has received many commendations and critiques (from the distinguished professors Chryssanthos Christou, Associate Professor of the History of Art (member of the Academy), Kostas Eurygene, artist - Associate professor of the Superior School of Fine Arts, Mr. George Farsakidis, writer-painter, Mrs. Ismini Dalla-Datsi, literary writer and from Mr. Stelios Lydakis), some of which have been published in daily and weekly Press. Her works can be found in museums, institutions, galleries, embassies, philanthropic institutions and in collections in Greece and abroad. She lives and works in Athens.
COUPLE Batik on silk, 55x40cm, 1990
LIHTING LI KOSTRZEWA Lihting Li Kostrzewa is a Taiwan born Chinese American artist. Her style of painting is lush, imaginative and cultural with simple brushstrokes exhibiting complicated layers of colors. She has a deep concern for humanity, social justice, and a true love for nature. Through her sensibility she creates art to express Life’s journey, human struggles, as well as the beauty of nature. Her color is expressive from the influence of study in German Expressionism and American Pop Art. Her ink-like brush strokes on her painting are deep rooted in her Chinese culture and the years of training in Chinese Art. She hopes to bring her Chinese Art perspective to modern painting and marry them into a cross-cultural uniqueness. Lily’s paintings have been exhibited in 22 solos and many group exhibitions internationally, including those at Art Expo NYC, Angel Orensanz Foundation, NYC; Art Basel Miami, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, Michigan Women’s Historical Museum; Old Town Art Center Chicago; Historical Museum of Infantry, Rome, Italy; Gallery Metanoia, Paris, France and Galleria d’arte, Pescara, Italy. Lily has taught painting, design and workshops in colleges, public schools and community art centers, including Lake Forest College, IL, Central Michigan University, MI, Marywood University, PA, and Kendall College of Art and Design, MI. Many of her artwork has been published including such books as Art Platform NYC (2015) Con Corso Buenos Aires VI Edizione, Milano, Italy, Identity, The Women’s Caucus for Art, US, Equilibrium: Art for a Changing World, The Women’s Caucus for Art, US (2014) Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective, United Women Org., Birmingham, MI, Effetto Arte: artisti a cura di vittorio Sgarbi(Italy) etc.
CELEBRATION Acrylic on canvas, 24x33cm, 2010
PRABHINDER LALL Prabhinder Lall is a well known Painter Artist of Chandigarh that has been awarded with the Senior Fellowship (Ministry of Culture / India 2012-13) in the field of Painting (Visual Art) , for his project on the subject Environmental Art & Architecture related to Rural & Urbanism in Landscape. He has been awarded in All India Exhibition of Drawings at Chandigarh, and many others. He did his Masters in Applied Art from College of Art, Chandigarh in 1979. He has worked as a freelance Graphic Artist and held the post of Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts, Applied Art and Animation in Lovely Professional University, Punjab. He has participated in numerous national and international events of art, and attended prestigious art camps & workshops at national. His works are in important art collections and museums. My journey as a painter spans over 3 decades, my mediums range between the humble pencil and the complex art programmes on the computer. The light within, pushes my forms and colours. A painting for me is a journey, at times this journey spans a few intense hours, and at others it spreads over absorbing and involved few days, and then is born the painting-a product of my intensity, my play with colours, light, drawing instruments and depth. The day fades into night and night mingles into day when I paint. My inspiration, my muse could be anything –a conversation, a train journey, images on the silver screen, any seemingly mundane incident can weave itself into painting, one after another. The form usually stays abstract, yet rooted in the tactile, of late the sensuous curves of the female have made way on to my canvases, lets see what crystallizes next on this art journey.
URBAN GLIMPSES
BARRY LEE Barry Lee "Childhood is not necessarily the ground your life is built upon, but rather the pedestal on which the statue of your life sits." This is an aphorism that I like to revisit frequently. Usually a child will show certain proclivities by the age of seven, and ideally will pursue a path that would capitalize on those talents. I was trained as a musician, but my natural abilities began with text and writing at a young age, then evolved into the visual arts. There is a bit of every discipline in the things I do, which are then transformed by cognition and the process of making art either as objects, or art as ideas and experiences. Marcel Duchamp said that his work had different 'departments', and that is also an apt metaphor for my own work. Some pieces are art as objects, and some are more driven by ideas. My feeling is that once the viewer can connect with art through ideas, the art experience doesn't necessarily need to rely on notions of art as vehicles for beauty or decoration, but rather suggest new ways of understanding the world. Most of my influences are post-Pollack artists: minimalists, formalists, neo-dadaists, fluxus, pop, conceptual, light-and-space artists such as Robert Irwin and James Turrell, neo-geo, anything of modernist abstraction.
SEVENTHS Acrylic on plywood, 91x6,30x1,90 cm, 2014
BARBARA MARCUCCI Barbara Marcucci was born in Milan, Italy on 6.6.1976. She attended Arts State Institute ‘O.Licini’ and she is a graphic designer and scene painter. She exhibited in Spain and Italy her painting and photographic works. She lives and works in Ascona Italy. I experienced the art in life, in my every single day. My grandfather, a sculptor, always said: Love the art … of Life. I can say I do not see major studies. Simple diploma as a graphic designer and a simple certificate scenic artist of the theatre. I love the colours. I like to paint a simple day in its simple wonder and my little star loves the colours of the great day that unites us.
LIFE
EFI MARKOU Efi Markou is born in Fier of Albania on the 26th of February 1985. She spend her childhood in a small village until the age of 12. In 1997 the family moved in Athens where she joined school immediately. Later on she studied Hotel Management in a private school in Athens. Currently she lives in Corfu and works in a hotel located in the south part of the island . Her relationship with Art is a relationship of Love that accompanies every single day of her Life.
KERKINI LAKE Photo , 30x40cm, 2014
ANDREY MIKHAYLOV Andrey Mikhaylov is a Russian artist, born on December 15, 1988. He studied at the Southern Federal University, Faculty of Visual Arts (2007-2013). Since 2011 he is working as an art teacher to the Children Art School, N. Dobovskoy, Novocherkassk (Russia). He is a member of the All-Russia creative public organization “The Union of Artists of Russia” (junior section) and of the Creative organization of Russia and Belorussia “Our Motherland: Russia-Belorussia”.
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IGNACIO (NACHO) MILLET Ignacio (Nacho) Millet is born in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), on October, the 4th, 1974. Actually he lives in the town of Matar贸. He is a graduate of philosophy from the University of Barcelona, 2004. Later on he started his painting exploration (2012-2013) and continues studying in philosophy and literature: work in progress. No publications yet. Actually: Literature projects: poetry, novel, philosophical essay; poetry translation. Music videos: synthesizer experimental music; photography, micrography as art (ars microscopica). Writing.
THE BIG SHIP Video from photocompositions, 2015
TATYANA MITAKI Tatyana Mitaki was born in Izmail,/Odesa region, Ukraine on 1960. In 1977 she graduated from Art School, Izmail, and in 1992 from the Moscow People’s University. Since 2008 she is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and since 1995 a member of city, regional, national and international art exhibitions. Personal art exhibitions: Art Gallery of Izmail, Izmail, Ukraine (1996), Autohaus Wossidlo, Berlin, Germany (1999), “Millennium”, Berlin, Germany (1999, 2000), “Russian House of Science and Culture”, Berlin, Germany (2000), GFK (Hellenic Foundation for Culture), Odessa. Ukraine (2001), House Council Sharloteburg. G. Berlin, Germany (2005), “Labyrinths of the soul”, the Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine (2008), Marshall Center. A.Kuindzhi, Mariupol, Ukraine (2010), “Space and Time.” Donetsk Regional Museum of Art. Donetsk, Ukraine (2011). She has also participated in group exhibitions: For the 50th World War II, Izmail Art Gallery, Izmail, in the 4th International Art auction, Berlin (1995), and many other exhibitions in Berlin (1999-2002). She has also participated in exhibitions in Kiev (2003, 2011), Odessa (2004), Berlin (2005), Starobeshevo (2009), Mariupol (2010), Izmail (2010, 2011, 2012). Her works are in museums and private collections in Ukraine, Russia, USA, Romania, Austria, Germany, Greece and Sweden.
UNTITLED Oil on canvas , 45x35cm
MANOUSOS NANAKIS Manousos Nanakis was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1969. He has a secondary education degree. He is a student in Photography and Architecture and he is also studying Drawing and Painting. He has published two poetic collections: “Voiceless entreaty” (2000) and “Biography in seven acts” (2005). He graduated from the non commincion officer’s academy in Greece (1985). He has participated in AthensArt exhibitions in Athens/Greece, Vienna/Austria, Rostov on Don/Russia, Corfu and Rethymno/Crete. He lives and works in Crete.
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LUY NGUYEN THANH Luy Nguyen Thanh, short name Luy Nguyen, was born March 12, 1972 in Da Nang city. He is living in Saigon - Vietnam. In 2007, I started into photography. At the beginning, I think this is a game. Until 2009 I began to participate in the photography contest. I had the early success quite nice. I also had a lot of domestic and foreign medals. I participated in many exhibitions. The most important group photo of me is the picture: The & pets. I made within 7 years. However, I still see it as a part of life. I still have to make a living every day with the work of a mechanical engineer. I hope to bring you the feeling of light entertainment.
GOING TO THE MARKET
IOANNA NIKOLARAKI Ioanna’s Nikolaraki first “teacher” Irini Karaleka, when they both were twelve years old, at some point taught her drawing, painting and especially loving oil colors, brushes oil and soft pastel, color pencils, acrylics and first of all painting! Attempts here and there during the years, become reality with Jane Cote, teaching her the wonderful world of watercolors. She continues lessons with Mariela Konstantinidou who taught her new techniques and materials. Born in Egypt, a trip starting from Port Said and from port to port with countless stations and lighthouses in her life the colors, sights and sounds of the busy port and fishing fleet could only inspired her. Since her childhood in a harbor, staring commercial vessels passing through Suez Canal, with grandfather Yianni (captain), godfather Vassilis and uncle Dinos (naval engineers) and of course her father, Costas (shipbuilder) who as taking along with him to the shipyard of Suez –where he was working – his three daughters, she was capturing images and moments until later on she could transfer every small detail on the canvas. Harbors, lighthouses, anchors… rust… bicycles, doors etc., things to tie and release… These early experiences were to have a decisive influence on her later artistic expression… in order to travel to magical places.
MOROCCO
TAHAR OUAMANE Tahar Ouamane was born on 12th March 1954 in Biskra in southern Algeria. Tahar began his artistic career in 1971. Paintings, etchings, frescoes and illustrations of literary books and furthering his training of etchings in Bulgaria 1975, Cuba 1978 and 1983 and France. To date, he has illustrated more than 250 literary works. He started exhibiting from 1975 in Algiers, Bulgaria and Germany. Since then Tahar has exhibited globally at Spain, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Tunisia to Washington in USA, Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, South Africa, South-Korea, Greece, Russia, China, Austria, Mexico, etc... He painted also many murals and ceramics in Algeria for Cultural institutions and Universities. He worked at Ministry of Culture from 1978 to 2000. He obtained some awards in Algeria, Cuba, Russia and Arabic world. His works are in several private Collections, governments and royal museums around the world. He lives and works in Algiers since 1975.
NOSTALGIA FOR CHILDHOOD Mixed media on glass, 15x15cm, 2014
THANASIS PANOU Thanasis Panou studied organisation and administration of enterprises, sociology criminology and realised special study of figurative arts (picture sound-movement-reason), in the Art and Culture Center For Artistic Development and Culture with object of research operation artistic forms and her formal equivalence from a type of art in the other. With the musical form of Moles Band they have invested musically productions documentary. As teacher it has worked with teams art therapy and is scientific collaborator of centre of Artistic Activities and Education of Arts in the department of experimental research and expression. It has taken part in individual and common reports of Painting - video-art, in Greece and the abroad and has organised literary events aframed with music and video poetry. The institute of Experimental Arts (The Institute for Experimental Arts) in 2013 and 2014 presented videoart and his poetry (International Film Poetry Festival). Articles, unimaginatively and his poems have been published in newspapers, periodically and literary anthologies.
GARDEN WITH COLORS Chinese ink drawing on paper and digital paint, 97x97cm, 2014
OLEG PANOV Oleg Panov has studied in St.Petersburg Art-industrial Academy. He is a member of the Association of Free Artists of St. Petersburg and of the Union of Russian Artists. He has participated in about 100 art exhibitions. His works are found in private collections to Germany, U.S.A., Hong Kong, Greece, China, Finland, Russia and other countries. He has been awarded with the Gran Prix Casalgrande Padana city of Bologna, Italy (2005-2006), the Diploma of the Association of Russian Universities, Moscow, and he was the winner at the “Monumental Art�, St. Petersburg (degree work).
CITY OF LIGHTS Oil on canvas, 40x50cm, 2010
DRAŽEN PAVLOVIC Dražen Pavlovic was born on May 1962 in Varazdin, Croatia (EU). From his early youth, his attention and effort were occupied with painting. He is a master painter and pioneer and co-founder of a new art movement: The Metastabilian Movement. He Lives and works in Varazdin, where he has an art studio called "Atelier Pavlowich." He is member of the Art Association Varazdin (LUV), chairman of the Managing Board of LUV and guide of the Gallery LUV in Varazdin. He earned his fine arts education from teachers B.A. Ruzica Grgevcic, and later from B.A. Mirjana Ducakijevic, who taught him about knowledge and beauty of the history of fine arts. In 1990 he attended "LC Zagreb“, learning and improving his art techniques, delving deeper into the technology of painting. From 1995 onward he has worked as a professional artist. He has given 33 solo exhibitions and he has also participated in 150 group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (Slovenia, Italy, Austria, Hungary, USA, Germany, Macedonia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, etc.). For his art work he has won several valuable prizes, such as: "Golden Palette" 2007; government of Brcko DC BiH, "GrandPrix PaletaFest" 2008 & 2009; Varazdin,Croatia, "1st Prize of 52th GI LUV" 2010; Varazdin, Croatia, "Emerging Artist of The Continent Europe" WAC , New Delhi, India, "Winner - 1st Place Contemporary" 2011; and others. Recently, he has begun to work together with the Artist ~ Neuroscientist David Engstrøm on a new art movement called "The Metastabilian Movement". The vision, concepts, method and criticism of this art movement are based on an appreciation, respect and inspiration for 'the complementary nature'.
SPHERE IR Oil on canvas, 40x40cm, 2014
GABRIELA Z. PICKETT-MOSIER Gabriela Z. Pickett-Mosier is a native of Mexico City (March 20, 1969). Coming from a long line of artists, she studied art at Wright State University in the United States. Her life is full of experiences that have allowed her to develop her talent as an artist. Being born in Mexico she developed a fondness for what most people would label as morbid images. The horrendous reality of war and political instability that Mexicans endured from 1810 to the late1930’s inspired many great artists. When Gabriela paints or creates sculptures she uses a fusion of influences from her native country, drawing on the influence of Jose Maria Velasco and his landscapes, Posada and his morbid sense of humor, Diego Rivera and his desire to show us the harsh reality of life experienced by the Mexican peasants oppressed by corrupt governments, and Frieda Kahlo, who painted from the heart communicating a sense of physical and psychological anguish. Gabriela aims at raising awareness regarding the living conditions of the Mexican indigenous people who have been marginalized by economic realities and social discrimination. As an activist, Gabriela uses her art as a venue for social commentary in the hope that indigenous people are not forgotten. In an era where Zapatistas have put down their guns and use words as a weapon against tyranny, she uses her art to compliment the messages of peace and respect for human rights emanating from the jungles of Mexico. Her landscapes are memories of her childhood recorded for posterity. As urbanization takes over the Mexican landscape, Gabriela wants to show the world the beauty of Mexico’s countryside before it fades away.
TRANSFORMATION Oil on canvas, 20x20cm, 2014
EWA PISARSKA Ewa Pisarska was born in Bartoszyce, Poland on April 4, 1972. Painting and photography are her passions. She has taken part in open-air painting exhibitions in Poland and Ukraine. She is co-founder of the Photography Association. Professionally, she is working as a graphic designer for print and advertising. She lives and works in Bartoszyce.
POPPIES Oil on canvas, 50x60cm, 2014
CARLOS RAFFO Carlos Raffo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is a selftaught artist. He studied scenography at Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. Since 1973 he lives and works in Rosario, Argentina. From 1989 he has participated in Mail Art and has sent artworks to Italy, France, Germany and Sweden. 1992: “International Mail Art Archive” exhibition, Pisa, Italy; organized by Bruno Pollaci. 1997: Raffo received a group of artist from Europe: Giovanni Strada and Emilio Morandi, both performers. Centro Cultural Bernardino Rivadavia, Rosario, Argentina. 1998: Exhibition at “L’ Idioma” gallery. Ascoli Piceno, Italy; organized by Dino Sileoni. In return, Raffo coordianted the visit of Dino Sileoni, painter, poet and performer, who made an exhibition at Centro Cultural Bernardino Rivadavia. Rosario, Argentina. 2000: Carlos Raffo and Emilio Ghilioni organized an exhibition of Piceno’s artists at Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. Universidad Nacional de Rosario. Rosario, Argentina. 2004: Exhibition at Alliance FranÇaise of Rosario with Nelly Arias (graphic). Rosario, Argentina. 2006: 2nd. acquisition Prize “Salón Nacional de Pintura Fundación Banco de la Nación Argentina”. Palais de Glace. Buenos Aires. Argentina 2007: Exhibition during the inaugural of Casa de Santa Fe. Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2008: Individual Exhibition at Alliance Francaise of Rosario.
FRANSISCO Oil on canvas, 50x70cm, 2013
IRINI RITI Eirini Riti is 24 years old and she has recently graduated from the Department Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics of the University of Thessaly. I truly love photography and I am keen on enriching my photographic portfolio with my new adventures, capturing every moment of my life!
FIGHTER Digital photo, 42x28cm, 2013
ANDRIJANA SIMEUNOVIC Andrijana Simeunović is born on the 12th of October, 1977 in city Zaječar, Eastern Serbia, where she lives today. She was studying nursing school and higher school for teacher. Today she works like nurse in hospital for psychiatric patients. In free time she is having fun to making Venetian masks, to make mosaics and taking photos.
RED ON THE BEACH Digital photo, 40x30cm, 2015
POLINA SIMOU Polina Simou studied German Literature and Philosophy in the University of Athens. Painting and Art History was a passion from a very early age. Nowadays she is a PhD candidate in the field of BioArt in the Department of Audio and Visual Arts in the Ionian University, cooperating with the Bioinformatics and Human Electrophysiology Laboratory on BioArt creations merging Painting and Science. Her academic and artistic interests mainly focus in the dissemination of BioArt and the research on the ethical and philosophical aspects of biotechnology, genetic engineering, hybrid organisms, clones, semi-living organisms, stem cells, quantum mechanics, nanotechnology, brain interaction, Transhumanism and NeoHumanity. She has participated in London Art Biennale 2015, 1st Italian Biennale of Creativity 2014, Chianciano Art Museum Biennale 2013, a solo exhibition of Science-in-Art oil paintings in the 1st World Congress on Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Disease Research 2014 and many others. She is also co-author in Collective Volumes: Artificial Humanoid for the Elderly People (2014) and Exploring Artificial Intelligence Utilizing BioArt (2013) in Springer AEMB and IFIP series. According to my artistic point of view, philosophical enquiry and personal experiences can be occasionally expressed through artistic material on canvas. Human noble or dark emotions, the convergence of biotechnology with the human nature on the upcoming era of post humanism, the four elements, the role of subcellular reactions in human body and a long list of inapplicable humanitarian ideas are presented in her latest oil paintings, attempting to emerge the interaction between art, science and philosophy in modern life.
SEE Oil on canvas, 80x60cm, 2012
GABRIELLA STERZI Gabriella Sterzi was born in Rome, Italy, in 1958. She showed a keen interest in drawing and everything that pertains to colour since her childhood. She graduated in Psychology at Università degli Studi La Sapienza in Rome, and continued her studies in New York City, at The Graduate School of The City University of New York, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology. She lives in Rome, and works as a teacher at Grade School. After having completed her Graduate Studies, she rediscovered her inclination for the Fine Arts and started her vocational training to learn drawing and painting techniques. The first step on this path was the attendance of Illustration courses at Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, in the years 1994-96. Because of her interest in drawing the life model, she attended Scuola Libera del Nudo of Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, in the years 2000-2003. To learn oil painting techniques, she attended Painting classes at Scuola delle Arti Ornamentali di via di San Giacomo, Rome, in the years 2000-2003. She has attended Summer School classes in drawing and painting at the following Schools in London: The Slade School of Fine Arts, 2006, The London School of Painting and Drawing, 2007, The Lavender Hill Studios, 2008, The Prince’s Drawing School from 2008 to 2012. In the Summer 2008 she also attended Summer School painting classes at Angel Academy of Florence. In the years 2009 and 2010 she has attended Scuola di Nudo at Upter of Rome. In 2011 and 2015 she has attended painting classes at The Painting and Drawing Art Studio of Rome of American painter Timothy Allen. She has participated in several collective Painting Exhibitions in Italy (Rome, Genova, Palermo) as well as other European countries (Germany, France, Spain, Greece).
RED AND BLACK Oil on canvas, 50x70cm, 2013
JOALEX TATARI Joalex Tatari was born on 14/10/1975 in Lamia Fthiotidas, in central Greece. Having an innate tendency to painting, during her childhood and adolescence, she has participated in competitions and have won many distinctions both in Greece and abroad. She studied Graphic Arts and Painting. She uses oil, acrylic, mix media, graphic print art. Her themes mainly refer to fantasy and dreamlike sets, mostly influenced and directed by surrealism. A lot of her artworks can be found in many private collections.
HANDS Digital print art, 80x80cm, 2015
JOAN DEQUITO TINAMISAN Joan Dequito Tinamisan was born in Pagbilao, Quezon, Philippines on January 15, 1980. She took up Business Administration major in Management Accounting at Manuel S. Enverga University Foundation in Lucena City Philippines in 2000. She worked in Manila for 6 years then relocated to Bangkok, Thailand where she now works as a Financial Controller for Logonet Thailand and Hong Kong. Her frequent trips to some parts of Asia present her a great opportunity to pursue her passion in Photography. She loves photographing flowers, insects, portraits of people and anything she finds interesting. She had her first group exhibit in 2014 with Kolour Asia' “Bridging Cultures in Southeast Asia� in Bangkok and 2015 in Thepsatri Rajabhaat University, Lopburi Thailand.
SIDEWAYS Digital photo, 28x45cm, 2014
ANNA ZAYIDOVA Anna Zayidova focuses on an experiment in art. First Ann created as painter, then as photographer. She uses computer photo manipulation or in an unique technology combining watercolors and photography. Anna created under the pseudonym Fidje. She took part in AthensArt Greece 2010 exhibition, twice in «Masterskaya» exhibitions of Moscow Museum of the Modern art (2013 and 2012). She also has medals at such competition as Trierenberg Super Circuit "Gold medal of excellence" (Austria, 2008), «FotoOdlot» (2012 and 2011, Poland), No Borders "Experiment" (Poland, 2005), she has a Honorable Mention of International Photography Awards (IPA) 2010 and thrice laureate by All-Russian Pushkin's Festival Of Art (Russia, 2004, 2006, 2007). Her work was submitted in exhibitions at USA, Austria, German and India.
REVIVED Photomanipulation, 2015
SHANGLIE ZHOU Shanglie Zhou (BE) is Born in Shanghai of China in 1958. She lives in Belgium and is a contemporary conceptual multimedia visual artist. Shanglie studied art and design at Shanghai Light Industry University and did advanced studies of multimedia-computer art. During the 80s, she did various in-situ researches on ancient Asian cultures as well as anthropological research. Her paintings and mural paintings were engaged in Chinese avant-gard movements and have been exhibited at the Shanghai, Beijing, New York, Denmark and in major cities in Japan. She received national art awards from the China Fine Arts Museum in Beijing and the Shanghai Fine Arts Museum. In 1991, she moved to Belgium and studied at The National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp and was a Researcher in Ghent University. Since then, her drawings, paintings and multimedia works have won prizes internationally. She is best known for her 1997 art event in a Delhaize supermarket in Antwerp. In 1998, she realized the art project “Turbulence, a water project� in the City Swimming-pool Wezenberg in Antwerp. In 2003 and 2004 she staged a performance theatre piece with underaged refugees from refugee-camps in Belgium. She gives philosophical lectures at the FVG in Belgium and multidisciplinary workshops in Europe. She is doing researches on the interrelationship between art and philosophy in cultures; the interrelationship between art and public spaces, art and science. In recent years, she has been working for IYMF European art projects in Belgium, France, Scotland, Spain, Greece, Denmark, Switzerland, Slovakia, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Serbia, Finland etc.
LOOKING FOR THE HORIZON Part seven, Video Full HD , 2012-2015
AGNES BORSA-ZIRINIS Agnes Borsa-Zirinis was born in Paris / France, where I got a Master degree in Law. She lives in Greece since 1980. She came to painting in 1991 as a colorful natural following (or companion) of writing, and both are her passions as ways of expressing herself and her perception of the world and others. She loves colors, movement, and experimenting with different techniques, from water painting to oil and pigments, the wonderful diversity of materials and supports, and this is why she also learnt byzantine iconography. She had great teachers on a private basis Colette Darras (French sculptor from Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts), Pete Engelman and Pavlos Samios. Her last collection, titled “Maman les P’tits Bateaux” had quite a success online, and wherever she showed them (3 personal exhibitions in 2013, 2014 and April 2015). Painting is for me like thinking in shapes and colors, sometimes like meditating or praying, sometimes just enjoying playfully, always in a state of pure happiness.
PECHE EN MER Tempera on paper, 27x32cm, 2013
COLLECTIVE ARTWORKS We strongly believe that Artists should be able to move from “I” to “WE”, to reduce their super Ego and to explore various possibilities of Collectivity, without any discrimination between professionals and amateurs, young and old etc. In this way we think that Artists will better learn the Others and by respecting them, will strengthen the message of the artworks, coming to a constructive dialogue and cultivating Friendship… We strongly believe that Artists should stop “acting” like cinema stars, and try, with all their beings, to build a better Self, in order to build a better Society. In this spirit we, some Friends from AthensArt, started from 2010 to create such works, which have been called “hemiergo”, means in English, “unfinished”. We continue this project, having in mind to exhibit all the artworks we will collect, in all participants’ cities and countries. Artists who participated in this project, are: Takis Alexiou, Theodosia Argyraki-Assariotaki, Panos Arvanitis, Tim Bennett, Eleni Berberidou, Elena Bolgova, Carlotta Castelletti, Eleni Dimopoulou, Amel Djenidi, Aggliki Drakaki, EEEE Centre, Jake Eldridge, Hengameh Farahmand Valcir Fernandes de Siqueira, Mario Fois, Boris Gatnselevich, Khairy Hirzalla, IP School, Jaspals, Masha Knyazeva, Apostolos Kyritsis, Litsa Marandi, Barbara Marcucci, Antonia Matzouka, Giota Mitsi, Natalia Mramorova, Gabriela Pickett, Helaine Sabbatini, Triada Samaras, Magdalene Theocharis, Andrej Trnkoczy, Evi Tsana, Volpi Davide Giovanni, Geert Weggen, Sabine Wurz and Sofia Zagka from: Egypt, Greece, UK, Russia, Italy, Algeria, USA, Iran, Germany, Brazil, Israel, Jordan, India, Mexico, Slovenia, Sweden and Belgium.
CHILDREN’S PAINTING Children overflow Creativity and Hope! They are our future! Here we can share children’s artworks which have a special energy. We can use this energy to be more strong to provide Peace and Friendship all over the world! Art has something that I can’t explain, but it makes everyone feels better, it makes all eyes shine! Even children who don’t know to read or write very well, can produce an especially artwork. I worked during 5 years with a little girl with cognitive problems. She change my life and my art perception. Here I will also share some of their paintings and I invite you to share your experiences with kids! Bianca Sollero, Brazil
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