AthensArt Odysseia

CENTRE OF ARTS 4 SEASONS AthensArt Odysseia Corfu 2011 2300 Members 5 Continents 111 Countries

Oropos / Sykamino / Pano Laka, 190.15 Nea Palatia / Attica http://athensart-2010.com/ Mob.: 0030-6944128460, e-mail: ca4s@otenet.gr Prof. Dr. Takis Alexiou 39, Salaminos Str., 153.43 Ag. Paraskevi /Athens Tel.: 0030-210-6014313, Tel./Fax: 0030-210-6011904, e-mail: profalex@otenet.gr

CA4S-AthensArt short CV

For the last 30 years, the Centre of Arts 4 Seasons (CA4S) created various cultural Events like “Kavafia”, “Iaponia-Japan-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.

Our AthensArt Program for the coming years runs like that: In 2011 we are in Rostov Region and next year 2012 in St. Petersburg and Moscow, as well as in Suzhou/China, Yerevan/Armenia, Algiers/Algeria and Munich/Germany. In 2012 we are planning to be in Lisbon/Portugal, as well as in various islands of Greece, starting by Corfu, Crete, Naxos, Rhodes and Icaria. In 2013, besides Ubá, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brazilia of Brazil are in plan. In 2014 we have Dayton Ohio of USA. In 2015 Milan/Italy is in our program.

CA4S Acknowledgements

The Administration’s Council of the Centre of Arts 4 Seasons CA4S-AthensArt would like to thank Vassiliki Karounou of “Ambelonas CORFU” for her invitation and hospitality, starting in its beautiful spaces our AthensArt Odysseia in Corfu from 15-30 October 2011.

We would also like to thank the Governor of Ionian Islands Mr Spyros Spyrou, who had the kindness to open our exhibition and its parallel events.

In addition we would like to express our appreciation to the management of the sponsoring hotels: “Corfu Mare”, “Ariti Grand Hotel” and “Levant Hotel” which offered us an excellent accommodation.

We thank, also, our good Friends Sacha, Amel, Sissi, Kiki and Panos for the unique ecatalogue, invitation-program and poster they prepared in collaboration with the rest of the members of AthensArt Designers’ Group.

Finally, we would like to invite all our Friends to the next stop of our Odysseia in Rethymnon / Crete, from 1-15 December 2011, continuing to spread our idea of Friendship through Art that can change the World Peacefully…

Litsa Marandi, CA4S Secretary

FRIENDSHIP - IF NOT NOW, WHEN? PART B: THE BASIC PREREQUISITE FOR A SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE IN SOCIETY IS PARTICIPATION “This is the way I consider that things are. This is my theory. Try to improve it.” Thales of Miletus “Have the courage to use your own mind.” Immanuel Kant The “golden rule” as English people call the familiar principle of Hillel “do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you” as well as the position of Kant, regarding the respect of the individual and his believes, are in no case enough to characterize a State as politically free...

I also believe that the wider assessment of Popper that “we are free when we can get rid of the rulers without bloodshed” is not enough. So, no matter how much we wish to praise Democracy in the western world, describing it as the best system ever, unfortunately, it includes violence, bloodshed, hunger, misery and much pain, getting the last years of crisis more and more cruel all around the world... That’s why a State may be politically free, and therefore Democratic, only when, through participatory processes, not only violence and bloodshed are excluded, but also exploitation and injustice…

My personal estimation is that the issue, although political, unluckily, will not be solved by today’s professional politicians who represent or give in to the interests of an inhuman economy of markets. The change can and will come from conscious, peace-loving, active and determined citizens, artists or not, whose number, recently, increases every day.

According to Thucydides, Pericles argued that: “Although only a few of us are capable of planning and applying a policy, we are all able to judge it.” This does not mean, as some claim, that conscious and determined people can not have ideas and govern.

With this thought which combines the “get to know yourself” of Socrates and the “let the best and the wisest govern” of Plato (both supplementing one another), “Democracy” ought to stop working in a reactionary manner by securing us against a possible dictatorship. It is time for Democracy to act creatively by supporting effectively the real needs of the many (all) rather than the profit interests of the very few. Because only then crisis will come to an end and the entire humanity can prosper. AthensArt, our International Artistic Community, will, through Friendship and Art, continue to perform its work responsibly and steadily all over the world.

Prof. Dr. Takis Alexiou, Chairman CA4S-AthensArt

Ambelonas Corfu

Ambelonas Corfu situated in a wild natural setting with panoramic view of central Corfu, is a simple and flexible space, combining culture, nature and gastronomy, with a playful touch.

There is a permanent exhibition with equipment that was used for traditional production of wine and olive-oil, accompanied with a video projection showing the traditional process.

The first we know about the history of the property is that it was acquired from the ancestors of the present owners in 1600 when they emigrated from Venice to Corfu. Part of it was an olive grove which was burned down in 1999 and parts a vineyard along with traditional buildings and equipment.

Today the total area is about 74.000 sq meters of which about 16.000 are a newly planted vineyard, part is olive grove that escaped the fire and part was left to become a typical Mediterranean forest.

The present installations were built in 2004. The main building is an example of local traditional architecture as it was developed during the long history to house the two main agricultural activities of Corfu - Olive-oil and wine production.

The present ambelonas’s objectives are to produce wine with local varieties, to create homemade products of high nutritional value, offering cultural, educational and entertainment activities.

Vasiliki Karounou

PROGRAM OF PARALLEL EVENTS 15-30 OCTOBER 2011

ANDRÉS ALBERTO AGUIAR ACHI Andrés Alberto Aguiar Achi was born in Havana City on October 17, 1941. He graduated in the Schools of Arts and Crafts in the University of Havana and afterwards he graduated as well in Architecture. He studied Plastic Arts at the University of San Alejandro – Havana. He worked as an architect and design director from 1970 to 2000 in Cuba and the Republic of Mozambique. He is currently an independent artist. He opened an Atelier in Bremen (Germany) in 2004. He exposed his works in several exhibitions in Havana (Cuba) and Germany. Several of his paintings are in private collections in Cuba, Germany, Dominican Republic and Spain. He is Member of the National Council of Plastic Arts in Cuba and in the Newe Kunst Agency in Bremen.

My art tries to recreate the Afro Cuban religion theme from a probably never explored angle … based on the approach of Wilfredo Lam – the most universal Cuban painter… I am interested in laying emphasis on the religious system and the ethnic system, both coming from the south east of Nigeria (Calabar)…I hope to express in my paintings the essence of the mysteries living in us, the unknown with everyday, common symbols, from one generation to the next.

LA WEMBA O EL BANO LUSTRAL Oil on canvas 65x50 cm, 2008

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.

FLOURISHING SEAS Acrylic on canvas 70x100 cm, 2009

CRISTINA ALTOBELLI Cristina Altobelli began her non professional artistic experience in 2000 painting with oil colours, temperas and. She studied painting with teachers who were students of Zotti and Saetti at Venice’s Art Academy. She is now studying painting techniques and the theory of visual perception. She exposed her works in a solo and a collective exhibition in Pescara in 2008. ... her journey through informal art reveals to be full of light as it tends to a mirroring white in which she literally wants to enter and she does it getting dirty of the pictorial impasto and giving the canvases a sensation of complete implication. These are the shores where Cristina Altobelli arrives. Magic signs that want to represent the reality she has lived and interpreted. Where there is much more than sentiment… images wrapped in mystery…. (Leo Strozzieri).

PAESE Oil on canvas, 100x100 cm, 2009

GABRIELE ARMELLINI Gabriele Armellini was born at Castelletto di Branduzzo, Italy, on February 6, 1950. He lives and works at Voghera.

The elegant and accurate research that Gabriele Armellini makes through the medium of painting has to do with time… investigated in its phenomenological dimension.

Beyond and above the figure, in his paintings, the dynamic and changing shape, captures the conscious interaction with the world, … what is described is life itself, its never-ending proceeding forward… The progression and the color overlaying depict the vibration internal to the movements of life…these fragments of life are depicted with ease and passion by a deep and searching sight. The work of this artist has therefore an important humanism that … allows the investigation to go beyond the camouflage need, without ever losing grip to the real. The climate produced… is a climate of a profound meditation, the black background is a sign of intimacy without fear, of readiness to uncovering without hesitation. The vivid and bright colors produce the sensation of a clear and distinct vision, the precipitated material of an experience that has come to the end.

(Silvia Petronici – gavagai)

SLIGHT AFFLICITION Acrylic on wood, 30x30 cm, 2004

PANOS ARVANITIS Panos Arvanitis was born in Athens 1991. He is a student of Civil Engineering and member of CA4S-AthensArt Administration’s Council, representing the Young Generation. Among his hobbies is photography and Video.

BRAZIL IMPRESSIONS Video, 2011

ALESSIA BABROW Alessia Babrow was born in Rome (Italy) in 1979. Her mother is from Naples with Trentino origins – an art history teacher and hostess for Alitalia. Her father is from South Africa – a rugby player of a Russian origin. Africa inspires her love for freedom and for Mother Earth. Her work, which began at the age of 14, can be found in a multitude of different media: restoration, radio, film, fashion, theater, television, concerts, magazines and galleries around the world. She has begun a course of study, still in full development that includes theology, physics, quantum mechanics, energy, transcendental psychology, and hypnosis, leads her to travel and experience first-hand her theoretical knowledge. She is currently working with magazines and exhibits in European and American galleries. Her life includes both between traumatic events and the growing love for art in all its forms. She makes art a bridge between matter and spirit as a means of processing for human suffering. Her art seeks to expand the consciousness of mankind, because every change that we want to see in this world must begin first within ourselves.

The memory of the "ONE". All the things are in constantly evolving. Every human being, awakening to his mission contributes to this process through his life. One of my contributions is through art. The real work is that of the "soul". The others are just means that we choose.

THE OWN TRAP : IN THE GOOD.. IN THE BAD...

Photography, A3, 2011

MA CAGE DORﾃ右 Video, 2011

GIANNI BAILO Gianni Bailo was born in 1941 at Sale near Alessandria, Italy, where he currently lives and works. Dental technician, after his retirement, he followed his early vocation for art, using the mean iron as his elective material. He shapes his ferrous creatures, as if he were using wax to model his dental sculptures. In every work you can capture the feeling of being immersed in a clear space of signs and gestures, driven by an almost continuous research towards a new visual language. In his structures what is more evident is the quality of the creative impulse - a move and bend of the iron which is deliberately deprived of any rational control. The result is a succession of sinuous and smooth shapes, punctuated by an harmonic endless movement. In Bailo - as in the leading members of the informal art - we witness the creation of a code of personal writing, where every line traced by the iron is significant in itself, hinting at the same time to something symbolic and magical as the �never-ending alphabets "of Emilio Scanavino.

(Roberto Vaggi)

MANO TESA ALL’UNIVERSO

KIKI BARDANI Kiki Bardani was born in Athens on January 29, 1962. He graduated from the School of Athens and the University of Rhodes in pedagogical studies. She has been working as a teacher in elementary school for the last 15 years. It is the first time that she participates in an exhibition. She lives and works in Athens.

SPRING Monotype on canvas 45x50 cm, 2010

ELENI BERBERIDOU Eleni Berberidou was born in Serres in 1955. Since 1972 he lives and works in Athens. He studied Byzantine hagiograph,y Mandala Design, Healing Arts (IAMA Bach, Australia and Kallifornias, Reiki II degree, Su Tok Therapy, Crystal Therapy) and Jewel, with which is actively involved till today. In 1991 she was asked by Arsenidis Publishing House in cooperation with the Swiss Embassy for a series of events "For 100 years since the birth of Carl Jung� in Athens, the presentation of the Mandala project entitled:" Symbols of a personalization process�. Since 1993 she is the artistic associate of the publishing house Spageiria for covers designs. Her jewels have been exhibited at the Cultural Center of the City of Athens in May 2009.

MANDALA Fibre pens, 50x50 cm, 2003

LUCILLA CAMPIONI Lucilla Campioni was born in Rome in 1952. She studied Graphic Advertising at the Academy of Costume and Fashion of Rome. She attended courses of Engraving, Painting and Decoration and she has graduated with honors in Decoration Experimental Multimedia at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She is currently dealing mostly with xylography, photography, computer and mixed techniques. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. She deeply believes in intermingling the various arts techniques and using materials outside the rules. She lives and works in Rome.

RED BOAT (LET’S SAVE THE SAVABLE) Photos, computergrephics and collage 49x 51 cm, 2011

SUFFERING WRAPPED Video, 2011

ELENA CANDOLI Elena Candoli was born in Forlì (Italy) on April 27, 1960. She studied Architecture at IUAV in Venice. She exposed her artworks in solo and collective exhibitions in Italy at Cesena, Ferrara, Capo di Ponte (Brescia), Florence. She realized the set design for 'Spring in Winter' - The Winterreise of Franz Schubert and for 'Through the Door' of Robert and Clara Schuman 1854-1856. She lives and works at Cesena.

Mine is a long time research on the matter of colour and on the background on which it lay and acts. The landscapes of nature and man are the home of these alchemies. My aim is - quoting Florenskji - to reach “the mystic perception of the world, the special gift of a spiritual end aesthetic understanding...the revelations of a pure, childish and at the same time very archaic conscience.”

MEMORY Mixed technique on wood

DALIBOR DADO CETKOVIC Dalibor Dado Cetkovic was born at Bar in Montenegro, on November 22, 1982. He attented the four-year secondary art school "Petar Lubarda" and his studies were completed in Cetinje(MNE), 2001 with Professor Goran Sekulic, department of painting.

That same year he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Trebinje (BiH). He graduated in 2007 with Professor Mark Musovicin the painting department. Until now he has had six solo exhibitions and over twenty group exhibitions at home and abroad. He lives and works in Bar.

MYSTERY HAND AND IVA Digital photgraphy, 42x297 cm, 2009

ANGELA CONSOLI Angela Consoli was born at Locorotondo, Italy, on January 2, 1973.

She is a conceptual and mix-media. After obtaining a BA in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari, she develops her research on revitalizing obsolete objects - such as residue of old doors, little blinds, drawers, plane bits of wood – that once belonged to someone’s everyday life. She recovers these ‘containers of memory’ near places strongly connected to country tradition of Apulia - places that had been dismissed in modern era – ancient farms, ‘trulli’ and ‘lamie’. She throws in again these ‘fragments of life’ through alchemy with other objects of common use and the use of plaster, acrylic painting, photos, verbal messages, video-installations, ceramics, tar and shreds of the same matter. She exposed her works in solo and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad. She works as artistic events organizer. Since 2005 she has been organizing and directing ‘Porta Mediterraneo’ – an international project consisting in international artistic research days. She is being represented by GARD Art Gallery since 2009 . She lives and works at Valle d’Itria.

LIFE IMITATES ART Acrylic and iron on the door, 54x70 cm

ROSSANA CORTI Rossana Corti was born in Cagliari, Italy, on December 10,1972. She attended Cagliari Academy of Fine arts and graduated with her final discussion about "The Golem- The living matter." She started exhibiting in 2007. She took part to various group exhibitions and to national and international competitions, developing a research in progress on the possibility of earthly salvation. First solo in 2009: “Plasfena or wonderful Island�. She exposed her works in Cagliari, Palombara-Sabina, Venice, Paris, Cernobbio and Naples.

THIN SOUL Oil on canvas, 50x70 cm, 2009

DANIELA DA RIVA Daniela Da Riva started painting at age 12. She entered the Seneca advertising office in Milan as a designer. Then she organized some advertising campaigns and she entered the “Convegno” theatre as scene designer, working with Pierluigi Pizzi and Luca Sabatelli. A period of artistic interruption followed in which she took a Physics Doctorate, married and had twins. As soon as possible she went back to painting. Her artistic career was encouraged by Giampietro Maggi and Daniel Schinasi, Italian artists. In 2005 she had the honour to exhibit her work at the “Salon Primo” of the Museo della Permanente (Milan), where she was introduced by the painter Luca Vernizzi of Brera Fine Arts Academy. In 2006 she received her degree at “Scuola degli Artefici” of Brera Fine Arts Academy. Since 2002 she has had several exhibitions in Italy, France and Spain. She teaches at ‘UNI3 University in Milan and works with painter Massimo Zuppelli of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.

THE DANCE Oil on canvas, 32x39 cm, 2010

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).

ARCHANGEL MICHAEL Venetian wood temepera, 39x34 cm, 2011

ELENI DIMOTSI Eleni Dimotsi was born in Athens, on 18 November 1956. After her graduation of the Law School of the University in Athens, she worked for 30 years in the Bank of Greece.

Having recently been retired, she is free to enjoy several activities: Writing (poems in Greek and English language, translations, plays, e.t.c.) Singing (songs from all over the world). Working as a volunteer in the public library of Corfu, as she has a passion for books and language. Creating collages and various handicrafts : dolls, jwellery, embroideries, hand made rugs e.t.c.The materials she uses are old clothes and also stones, shells and woods found on the sea side. For the last 17 years she lives in Corfu island.

THE GIRL WITH THE EARING Colage, 29x58 cm

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.

LIFE

OPPOSITE

photography, 21x29 cm, 2009

photography, 21x29 cm, 2009

TAMMY DUFFY Tammy Duffy lives in New York, USA. She exposed her works in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia, Mariana (Brazil), Amsterdam, London and New Mexico.

I like to think that somehow, some of my fascination with creating abstract art has come from the love I have for my father as well as for the people I create my art for. I started painting 15 years ago and have grown as an artist through experiences and formal training. I am an accomplished physicist who switched to art but still dabbles in physics.

The physics informs the art.

I make abstract paintings that help me to reveal what I feel about the natural world: its colors shapes, textures, lines, and forms. My background in science supports my visual expressions on the canvas where my goal is to make a connection between myself and the observer. I hope my work inspires the observer, subconsciously or not, to develop his or her own special vision and see beauty where one might not even know to look. My mind is my brush and I use it to create images that transcend the ordinary.

ORANGE-YELLOW photography, 2010

JAKE ELDRIDGE Jake Eldridge was born in Yonkers, NY, USA in 1971. He currently lives and works in Chicago. As a digital artist, photographer and musician, he has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Brussels, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati. Jake made honorable mention on the Photography/Digital Graphics Short List in the 2009 Celeste Prize run from Poggibonsi, Italy.

I believe art connects us all bridging linguistic, cultural and temporal divides. My approach skews towards the abstract. While I do not exclusively create abstract works, I love the style because it actively incorporates the viewer into the aesthetic process. I believe this is more of a two way interaction between myself and the viewer. In my work I concentrate on composition and color embracing entropy, stressing patterns.

EIFFEL Digital photo print 33x48 cm, 2006

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN Digital photo print 33x48 cm, 2008

SUFFERING WRAPPED Video, 2011

HENGAMEH FARAHMAND Hengameh Farahmand was born at Shiraz, Iran, in1962. 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 often explores themes of love, aspiration, dreams and compassion, 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 transfixed. Hengameh has exhibited her work widely with a prominent exhibition at the Open Air Gallery in Berlin (2008). Her latest exhibition in Athens (AthensArt-2010) was one of her greatest experiences regarding international art exhibitions.

MOTHER EARTH Acrylic pigment and copper foil on canvas

EVA FELLNER Eva Fellner was born in Hungary and she is living since 1977 in Vienna /Austria.

Eva 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. Furthermore she also visited courses at Art school Lazarettgasse in Vienna and Seminars by Prof.Fischer / Academy of Fine Arts and Professor Kaiser / Univ. Applied art as well in Vienna. She took part in 60 exhibitions national and abroad, among them participation in the "16-17-21th Seoul Int'l Art Festival /Korea , Biennale Florence, Gallery 24 _Dumbo New York Leopold peace prize nominates Castle Klosterneuburg, Int. Art Festival Kiev ,Seihoun Gallery, LA ,,Athen,Las Vegas ,Santa Fe, Canada ,Germanie, China, Winning Artist "The World’s Greatest Erotic Art Today" Vol3 Book Presentation and Exhibitions Tour/USA. Her art can be found in numerous private and permanent collections.

DANCER Oil on canvas, 75x58 cm, 2010

ERNESTO FERRIOL PEREZ Ernesto Ferriol Perez was born at Holguin, Cuba, in 1971. He studied at the Raul Gomez Garcia Elementary School of Art and at El Alba Professional School of Art in Holguin before majoring in Painting at the High Institute of Art in Havana. His work had been displayed at the Center of Visual Arts in Havana, The Provincial Center of Art in Holguin, The Iberoamerica House, Holguin, Cuba; Caixa Penedes Aula de Cultura, Sant Vicenc Del Horts, Barcelona, Spain; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan. Marziart Internationale Galerie, Hamburg, Germany, Promo-Arte Project Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Gallery Mayha, Takatsuki. Osaka, Japan and many other venues. Ferriol is essentially a draughtsman inheritor of the great Cuban Masters in the field. Drawing is a natural gift for him. A blend of image and imagination driven brightly into private and perverse social terrain, lays at the foundation of his watercolor excursions. His drawings work as pieces of wishful thinking in which the main purpose is to confront the beholder with a fragment of reality and inner thoughts. Member of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. U.N.E.A.C, he lives and works in Japan.

DREAMERS Watercolor pencil on paper, 32x28 cm

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.

ABYSSAL MONSTER mixed technique on canvas 40x40 cm, 2010

SPYROS FRONIMOS Spyros Fronimos was born in Corfu. From 1966 to 1969 he studied in Art School of Corfu and his teachers were the late Angelos Contis and Nick Zervos. He has exhibited in Corfu (Corfu Mask Art Brown 1. 2006 - Corfu Mask Art Coffee, individual, Corfu DIM Theatre Foyer 2. 2006 – Igoumenitsa Pantheon Cultural Center, 2007, Corfu Stablus Art Coffee, 2007, Corfu Palace Hotel, 2007, Rotary Club of Corfu Ionian University, 2008- 'From Dusk till Dawn' Art Coffee Corfu, 2008), Italy (Rafael art gallery Lecce, 2007, Galleria Di Palazzo di Citta (Gallipoli), 2007, Torino, L’arte in Bottiglia, 2008), Patras (Patra Millennium Multiplex, 2007, Patras Palace Spyros Sokaris, 2007, Patras Arsakeio, 2007, Unesco.

Action of Piraeus, 2008.

Since I was a little boy I watched the sunsets and the sunrises of each day and I was attracted by the colors, still now they shock me. I took my frst drawing lessons in the technical school in Athens, since then I was drawing day and night. Even in the army I never stopped painting the portraits of my colleagues and officers. I was fortunate enough to visit at a very good age the British Museum, Louvre in Paris, the Royal Museum of Amsterdam, even the Hague, Panorama Mesdag. During the decade 80-90, along with painting, I worked hard also in the theater. Together with other Corfiot (dear) fellows, I played throughout Corfu. I never stopped travelling, painting and visiting exhibitions and museums everywhere, and then back to Corfu again, painting and painting again. After my friends’ persistence, I decided to make my first personal exhibition in 2006 wich was a great success. Tthis fact gave me wings, so I started to work harder and harder.

UNTITLED Oil on canvas

NIKI GEREKOU VASSILAKI Niki Gerekou Vassilaki is a very active artist, president of the Artistic Shelter, poet and songwriter, writer also of two award-winning books (see Papasotiriou page on internet).

She was taught the mandolin at the Maestro’s Kostas Pagratis Corfu Mandolins and Byzantine Music to St. Basil’s Papaspinoula. She has participated in organizing concerts, cultural events and children’s parties. She has also created a CD for children titled “Birthday Party”. She has also been a hairdressing teacher, and sometimes made the hairstyling of the movie stars from abroad, playing in the “Island”. She created the hairstyling in the film “The price of Love”, which was 1911’s hairdressings. The film was directed by Tonia Marketaki, it was awarded abroad, financed by Melina Merkouri and made the bun of that time, an artwork.

Last two years she paints in her own unique way. Her artworks have a special expression and style, with many interpretations and messages emerging, transferring the people in the ancient and modern era and history with her expressive and dramatic themes. Her paintings are painted on authentic papyrus and are about 360. However, full copies, as well as the authentic ones, decorate houses and offices. Finally, through her artworks shows the cruelty of the society turning a blind eye to the problems of the citizens.

UNTITLED Oil on canvas

GEORGIA GRIGORIADOU Georgia Grigoriadou was born in Kozani, Greece, at March 13, 1975. She lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece. She studied Business Administration. Since 2005 she participated to several national and international exhibitions in Greece, Portugal, Holland, Poland, Nepal, Germany, Mexico. She also took part to lots of Symposiums in Holland, Greece, Italy and France (3d BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE GRAVURA - DOURO 2005, Portugal, "International Mother Language Day", Nepal Art Council Gallery, Babar Mahal, Kathmandu, Nepal,…). In 2009 she organized

the “1st international

Environmental Art Symposium Zone Zero – Gallikos River”, Kilkis, Greece, at 2007 the “1nd International Mail Art – The Philosophy Day”, at Art Space “VLASSIS ART.COM”, Thessaloniki, Greece and at 2008 the “2nd International Mail Art – Elimination of Violence against Woman”, Library of Technological Education Institute, Serres, Greece.

UNTITLED Etching

Lauretta Halilaj Laureta Halilaj was born in Albania on November 19,1990. In 2009 she graduated from Highschool of arts “Jordan Misja” (Painting, Graphic).

She studied at the “University of Arts”, Faculty of Visual Arts, specialty: Painting, Multimedia. She speaks English and Italian. From 2007 she is working as a coordinator of Avon. She also worked as a freelance photographer and as a make up artist and styling at company of production “Red Rock Ballcans”. She has made her personal exhibition (July 2004) and participated to many group exhibitions (2006: exhibition “60 years of liceo” with “Sandra” sculpture and “Still” painting, oil su canvas, 2008: exhibition “Stop AIDS” with painting, oil su canvas, 2010: exhibition “Atelie 2010”Galeria FAP, Tirana ,Albania, with “I me and myself” techniques mix, exhibition “Metropol Tirana” Tirana, Albania, with “Auto portrait” techniques mix, 2011: exhibition “Ambelonas Corfu” Corfu, Greece, with “New Age “ performance and “Red Sonnets” video, exhibition “Bridge With Three Arches” Tetovo ,Macedonia, with “New age performance, exhibition “End and beginning” Drimadhas ,Albania, with “Blodfeud” video, exhibition “Apollonian” Albania with “Fireworks” techniques mix, exhibition “World” New Orleans, USA, with “Blodfeud” video and “Find yourself” photo. From 2002 to 2005 she has participated to all activities organized by the National Centre of Culture and in 2007 she made the script of fotonovela “True friends” for “Trendy” magazine. She also played in the theater “No sex please, we’re Britannic” (July 2011). She has won several prizes: second prize in exhibition “Red cross and children in new century” (May 2000), fourth prize in exhibition “1 July” (July 2001), first prize in exhibition “Little Mermaid” (January 2003), third prize in exhibition “Miracle” (July 2004), third prize in exhibition “Europe near and far” (May 2005).

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Raiber González Hechavarría Raiber González Hechavarría was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1981.Inspired by the letters began philosophy studies at Havana University and later at “San Alejandro” art academy, where he ends his studies in 2005. That year he developed a community (art-therapy) project of exchanging with schizophrenic patients. In July of 2005 he received the prize on the XX edition of “Havana” Art Salon, which supports his membership in the National Arts Council of Cuba and later in the “X Havana Bienal”.

“Raiber´s expression is supported by an existentialist approach to creative process; distant from archetypes derived from structural criticism he rediscovers the time, the sensorial experiences, the routine, the memory, and the fake. His essay work supports his analytical position about mechanisms and processes of signal languages transmission. His first stay in Europe, led him to Amsterdam, where he established the platform of artists creation “TARA projects”. In February 2011, in Spain, creates “Funda Mental” project, a documentary records about language systems studies, emphasizing in communicative noises, distortion and transmission processes in general. Funda Mental diffuses these records and try to build a window into the collective work and avoid the obstacle that institutional promotion usually assumes against the young creators’ methods. In the search for these spaces he found another social networks to share his work. Currently also works on documentation and diffusion of community projects in Havana (Cuba)”. (Guacimara Rivero Pérez, sociologist) Some of his recent solo and collective exhibitions are: “Recursos humanos” Hexaedro Rosa Gallery, Havana, Cuba, Sept. 2009, “Background” OT 301, Amsterdam, The Nederland’s, Sept. 2010, Hipercolectiva, “Aperitivos visuales”, Tenerife, Spain, DEC. 2010, Concurso Nacional de videoarte Click&rec PHE10, Spain, July 2010, Funda Mental Opening, “Aperitivos Visuales” Tenerife, Spain, Jan. 2011, Funda Mental public intervention, Havana Book fair, Cuba, Feb. 2011, “Caravan” festival 2011, Tenerife, Spain, July 2011.

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Khairy Hirzalla Khairy Hirzalla was born in the West Bank (Jordan) on December 26, 1952. He lives and works in Amman. He attended the Fine Art Institute Jordan-Amman and the Fine Art course at the University of Jordan-Amman . He is Member of Jordan Plastic Art Association, of Alrasafa Culture Institute, of Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, and of the Jordanian Association of Environment. He exposed his works in several solo and group exhibitions in Amman, Beijing Biennale, Dubai, Qatar, Los Angeles, Tehran (Iran), Morocco, Beirut, Hanover (Germany), Al- Shareqa (UAE), Baghdad (Iraq). His sculptures can be found in the Spanish Culture Center– Amman (Cervantes), in King Hussein Gardens Amman, in Hanover Expo (Germany). He realized Great Arab Revolution monumental Al Tafila, Farwa Juthami Martyr Monumental Ein Afra, the Memorial and Monumental Muta, Muta University Gate and Al Hussein sport city Jordan memorial. He got the Second prize in Amman municipality fine arts competition (2005); Second prize in Mamdooh Bsharat Fine Arts Competition Amman treasures (2005); he was the First winner Poster Competition Jordanian Palestinian cultural days (1990) and in al sha’b Newspaper logo competition (1988).

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Michael Horne Michael Horne was born in Keighley, UK on December 14, 1953. He lives and works in Hebden Bridge, UK. I have been a practicing artist for the last 5 years, having previously worked as an academic, (social sciences, ethics and social work) in various UK universities and colleges.

My art spans 2D, 3D and installation work. My work mostly explores how we see and make sense of the world, inviting quiet contemplation on these processes. Nothing is fixed – everything is open to exploration and interpretation. Whilst using levels of abstraction, my work draws heavily on my own spiritual and meditative reflections encompassing experiences of place, memory, spirituality and social comment. My artwork at the moment mainly takes the form of pen and ink work, exploring my imaginings, based on memory and sky/landscapes. All are to various extents abstracted and ‘free’ in the sense that the finished form often lies deep in my unconscious, only to be revealed at a later time. Much of my work starts with or includes a spiritual element. I have exhibited widely in the north of England as well in the Czech Republic, (International Drawing Biennial).

everything in its place pen/ink on watercolor paper 64 x 82,5 cm 2007

Joseph Toufic el Jamous Joseph Toufic El-Jamous (monk Grigorios Sinaite) was born on August 16, 1966 in Amman, Jordan. He obtained a BA in English literature – Yarmouk University (Jordan), he studied web design at Ottawa Cultural Centre, Jordan and several foreign languages courses in Jordan and abroad. He studied drawing and free sketch and attended Intensive iconography and icon restoration seminars (Mt. Athos, Greece), intensive mosaic seminars in Athens, drawing and painting in Bari - Italy and intensive and advanced mosaic seminars and beginners and advanced affresco seminars at the International School for the Study of Mosaics (S.I.S.A.M) Ravenna, Italy, Restoration of floor mosaics seminar, at Madaba, Jordan. For the last fourteen years he has been living as a monk at St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mt. Sinai. He took part to group visual arts contests and exhibitions in Athens, Andros island (Greece) and in lots of Italian places. He received several awards in Athens and Italy. He is Member of AIMC (International Association of Contemporary Mosaicists), Ravenna, Italy, Honorary member of Associazione Culturale Galleria Amici dell’Arte, Castelnuovo della Daunia (Foggia), Italy and of Egyptian Translators and Linguists Association, Cairo, Egypt.

The Fall of Icarus acrylics

Sacha janzee Sacha Janzee was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1965. She took a BA in art and design at Windesheim, Zwolle. She exposed her artworks in solo and group exhibitions in Renesse, Steenwijk, Almere, Lelystad, Baarn, Dronten, Nagele, Barchem, Amersfoort, Emmeloord, Vienna and Athens. She lives and works in Marknesse, The Nederlands.

With color, space and personal symbolism I search for a certain feeling, deeply rooted emotions, not bounded to culture, religion or race, but universal and recognizable for every human being. I hope the spectator finds something of himself in my work. My search is not spectacular or shocking, I am searching in the world of silence. Paintings and objects showing large color fields, with small figurative elements in it, like a leaf, a jacket, or a child. Approximate formed squares and circles are connected with thin lines to each other or to the space outside the painting or object. Glass is a material that gives me the opportunity to enter light literally into the work. Paper looks vulnerable and transient. These materials are becoming more and more important in my work.

Just a thought acryllic on canvas 20 x 20 cm 2006

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 Exhibition, New Delhi, Bharat Bhawan, Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh), Drawing Biennale, Solid, Chandigarh, World Punjabi Conference, Art Fest, Punjabi University, Patiala (Punjab), 2004, World Punjabi Conference, Art Fest, Punjab Lalit Kala Academy, Chandigarh, 2000, 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, 2001, Kala Gram, North Zone Culture Centre, Chandigarh, 2002, Indusind Bank Art Gallery, Chandigarh, 2003) and group shows (TAC Art Gallery, Ludhiana (Punjab), 2003, Young Artist Art Fest Reggio Emilia, Italy, PANJ-AAB: at Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, Sept. 2004, Colours of India, Common Art Gallery, Windsor, Canada, 2009, Brijindra College, Faridkot, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011). 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).

Girl with icecream opaque watercolor 13 x 17,5 cm 2010

Orgeda Kapedani Orgeta Kapedani was born in Albania, on May 10th, 1990. From 2005-2009 she studied at the School of Arts“ Jordan Misja” Painting Department, (Graphic). She has participated in collective exhibitions: in an art colony in Korca, Albania (2007), in a colective exhibition in Shkodra (Albania) with one work, technique: oil on canvas, in Durres (Albania) with one work, technique: carbon on paper (2008), exhibition in Peja (Cosovo), a photo competition in Tirana(Albania), a competition in the ‘’Tirana express’’, (prize for the best tourist photo), (2010).

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Ilda Kapllani Ilda Kapllani was born in Albania, in December 6th,1989. From 2004 to 2008 she attended the “Jordan Misja” School of Arts, Painting Department,(Graphic). From 2008 she follows the studies in “Faculty of Fine Arts” Tirane Painting Department, (Multimedia). She has participated in many exhibitions: “Ponti verso Europa”, collective exhibition in National Art Gallery (2003), collective exhibition of contemporary Art, “T&G”Gallery (2008), collective exhibition“ Rruga e kombit”, organized by the Ministry of Culture of Albania and the Ministry of Culture of Kosovo (2009), a photo contest organized by “Italian Consulate in Vlora”, “Open Art Port Art” at the Port of Durres, curator Klod Dedja, an Art colony in Kosovo organized by Intersos with Ballkans Artists, Prima biennale di Lecce”, appreciation price (2010), “Ambelonas Corfu”, “The end and the beginning” Albania Drimadhe, “The word” America , New Orleans (2011).

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Maria Karayianni Maria Karayianni was born in Athens in 1965.She studied journalism and worked for many years in mass media. In 2000 begins her artistic research. She followed advanced courses in painting, photography and sculpture. She works mix media technical on her paintings, with oil and acrylic on canvas. She exposed her works in many collective exhibitions in Athens. She lives and works with her family in Athens.

The Trip acrylic and oil on canvas 2008

Natalia Kessler Natalia Kessler was born in 1976 in Kiev; she now lives in Yerevan, Armenia. Natalia is both an international attorney and a self-taught artist. In Bosnia and Herzegovina she worked as a legal officer in the Special Department for War Crimes in the Office of the State Prosecutor. In Kosovo, she held several important positions, including legal officer for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo and the Department of Justice. Natalia focuses her art work on both oil and acrylic paintings. She has had two solo exhibitions in the United States Embassy, Yerevan, Armenia. She speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English, Serbo-Croatian, good French, and she is now studying Italian. In 2010, Natalia started showing her art to the wider range of people via Athens Art and Celeste Prize networks. “Born in Ukraine, Soviet Union, I thought my life had been all written down, like the lives of the majority of the Soviet people. Happily, the old system collapsed and I started understanding that if I really want I could make a difference. I succeeded in my job as a lawyer: I received scholarships, studied abroad, worked for the United Nations in Kosovo and the International War Crimes Prosecutor in Bosnia. And one night I started painting and since then my life has changed again.�

Abstract acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 cm

Pol Koukourakis Pol Koukourakis is an architect. Some of his artworks are: 1) Μetal creations based on verses of nobelist poet Odysseas Elytis (Axion Esti) - Metalification of poetry. 2) Metal compositions based on the principal of Euclidean geometry “π”. 3) Metal creations composed from the remainder material from the construction of Calatrava’s Bridge in Athens, when Pol Koukourakis was the supervisor architect during the construction of the bridge in 2004.

Geometry metal composition

Magdalena Kourkoulos Magdalena Kourkoulos was born in Germany in 1951. When she was 18, after finishing high school, she moved to Colonia, where she studied and get married. She has two children. She has traveled a lot with her husband, George Kourkoulos, at the Greek historic places and the Greek islands. She is learning Greek and the last 8 years she is visiting every summer Corfu. She and her husband had the idea of twinning the Municipality of Corfu with the Municipality of Troinstorf, near Bonne, where they live in winter. She has worked in education for 34 years in Bonne. The last 25 years she is dealing with naïve painting, she is taking photos of Corfu and Greece and often collects her thoughts in poetic form. Since 2004 she suddenly changed her style and painted “furiously” her first abstracted work just with her hands. In her work Magdalena tries to feel the life again and expresses views of eternity, capturing the moment.

She considers her work as a presentation of life itself. Life is an interaction field where people put their signs and leave their marks. She often uses findings from the beach, which underline her intention to create a representation, an image of the existence.

After all, is there any better way to perform the meaning of human destiny than the sea? From 2008 she is a member of the Corfu Art Union.

Odyssey acrylic on canvas

Ermioni- Eleni Koutsiafti Ermioni- Eleni Koutsiafti was born at Ioannina, Greece in 1970. She has a degree from the department of Philosophy and Pedagogy, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessalonica. She worked as a substitute teacher at the 3rd Junior high school of Igoumenitsa, during 2001-2002. The last 7 years she is working at an engineer’s office, as a secretary. Her hobby is micro sculpture using clay. She lives and works in Igoumenitsa, Greece.

THE GAULS (AN ETERNAL FRIENDSHIP) LUCKY LUKE (THE DEFENDER OF JUSTICE) Video 2011

PEACE -COMPANIONSHIP -LOVE Plasticine 2011

Astrid Krüger Astrid Krüger was born at Glückstadt (Germany) on May 21, 1966. She lives and works in Hamburg.

She has been interested in art for a long time , but she turned to practice it when she saw an African stone sculpture exhibition. She immediately decided to learn sculpture from a local artist. For some years she concentrated in specializing in stone sculpturing. Afterwards she needed to change and to experiment with different materials and different approaches to art. Meanwhile she studied art at the Free Art School in Hamburg – held by former Beuys-Students. In result she became a painter with a great love for Asian wash painting. Nevertheless she mainly paints with oil colours.

But I try to create a similar atmosphere of silence, emptiness and space for continuing the painting in mind.

passing Campari Part II oil and acrylic on canvas 100 x 50 2010

Charly Lindsay Charly Lindsay was born in London UK in 1964. He lives and works in Manchester.

Fine Art Printmaking BA – Manchester. ’91-94. WFA workers film association – Manchester 1996. IDEA – Innovation in Design & Electronic Arts 1997. He exposed his works in London, Manchester, Nottingham, Salford, Newcastle and London.

My current practice continues to sublimate & employ natural forms. The two selected images have in common leaves. One directly uses actual leaves as the stencil to create the image, making a virtual pictorialrepresentation of the leaves themselves. The other image is an idealised digital drawing of Japanese cherry-blossom, a totally fabricated virtual image made in 1 take; an image that existed only as pixels, right up until the print was made. The real and the virtual co-exist and create further cross-reference.

SAKURA digital print 20 x 45 cm 2010

Bo Suk Lee Bo Suk Lee was born in Korea in February 4, 1955. She creates paintings with abstract and semiabstract themes, installations and ceramics using mixed media technique.

She organizes art symposiums, art workshops and art seminars. She is also the President of 21st Century International Creative Artists Association ( 21C ICAA).

The World of Story Telling Happy Life 60 cm x 80 cm Mixed Media

Christos Macheridis Christos Macheridis was born in Athens on October 25, 1957. He studied Drawing with Vrasidas Vlachopoulos and Sculpture and Plastic Arts at the laboratory of Athanasios Limneos. Some of his works can be found in private collections in Greece and abroad: Austria, Germany, Italy, France and America. He was awarded with the 2nd Panhellenic Award for Greek Resistance Monument. Solo Exhibitions:1985 “Kreonidis” Gallery, Athens; 1989 “V. Milonoyanni” Gallery, Chania, Crete; “Kreonidis” Gallery, Athens; “Bouzianis” Gallery, Athens; 1992 “V. Milonoyanni” Gallery, Chania, Crete.

Group Exhibitions: 1985 “Kreonidis” Gallery, Athens; 1986 Jewel Competition “Golden Form” 1986; FA CA D’ ORO. Greece; “Kreonidis” Gallery, Athens; 1990 “Dimito” Gallery, Rethimno, Crete; 1992 “Titanium” Gallery, Athens; “Epoches” Gallery, Kifisia, Athens; “Epipeda” Gallery, Athens; 1994 “Contemporary Chanian Artists Exhibition” ; 1995 “Exhibitions and Visual Events”, Chania Municipality; 1996 “V. Milonoyanni” Gallery, Chania Contemporary Chanian Artists Exhibition”; 2002 Chanian Artists Exhibition for the 750 years since Chania city’s reconstruction; 2004 “V. Milonoyannis” Gallery, Chania.

The two Friends bronze 25 x 18 x 12 cm

Litsa Marandi Litsa Marandi was born in Athens in 1966 and graduated in 1990 at the University of Athens, in Mathematics. During the period 1995-1996 she participated as Secretary to the Organizing Committee of 4 conferences, held by the Panhellenic Historical and Philosophical Society at Zappeion and at National Technical University, Athens. This is her first presence at a group exhibition. She lives and works in Athens

Puzzle of LifE monotype on canvas 80 x 80 CM 2010

Nicola Mastroserio Nicola Mastroserio was born in Italy on October 14, 1972. He lives and works in Italy.

He is an international artist – painter, sculptor and writer. He exposed his works in solo and collective exhibitions in Utrecht, Madrid; Bolzano, Rome, Bari, Civitavecchia, Conversano – Italy.

He is the founder of ‘Cellulismo’ (2007) conceived as a new Model of Artistic , Scientific and Cultural Innovation, as a new way to interpret Life and Art… it is the Symbolic Artistic Expression of Universal Life; it is the world of infinite intelligences, the imperishable world in its Universality. “Cellulismo” is the new artistic avant garde, a new Culture of thought and of Being.

Tamax oil on cloth 78 X 52cm 2009

Natalia Mramorova Natalia Mramorova was born in Miass, South Ural, Russia in 1966.

She graduated at Repin’s Academy of Fine arts in the department of History and Culture and afterwards she also graduated at Stieglitz Art Academy in Saint Petersburg in the department of monumental and decorative painting. From 2000 to 2003 she took part in decorating the Orthodox Cathedral in Magnitogorsk and designed a few private and public interiors. She also worked as a lecturer in painting and art history in some institutes. She exposed her work in various exhibitions in Saint Petersburg and in Ural. She lives and works in Saint Petersburg, Russia .

Green Afrika oil on canvas 55 x 65 cm 2007

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 officers academy in Greece (1985). He lives and works in Athens.

Puzzle of Colors digital photo 35 x 50 cm 2011

Bassey Ndon Bassey Effiong Ndon was born at Ibadan, Oyo state, Nigeria on November 6, 1974.

Painter, digital artist, experimentalist and motivational speaker, he is currently an art lecturer of fine arts, Painting and Drawing at the Department of Fine and Industrial Arts, at the Faculty of Environmental Studies – University of Uyo, Nigeria. He got a MFA and a BA in Painting at Uyo University. He exposed his works in various group exhibitions at Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria among which ‘’Productivity’’ Society of Nigerian Arts (SNA) Exhibition in conjunction with Ministry of Science and Technology, Office of the Executive Governor in 2009. He was awarded with the First Prize in the NFC/ Mobil Art Competition of Schools and Colleges in 1992. He is member of the Society of Nigerian Artists (SNA), of the Inspirational Association of Nigeria (ISAN) and of the African Missionary Network.

Drummers Acrylic on straw board 61 x 61 cm 2011

Tahar Ouamane Tahar Ouamane was born on the 12th March 1954 in Biskra in southern Algeria. Tahar began his artistic career in 1971 with etchings, frescoes and illustrations and furthering his training of etchings in Bulgaria , Cuba and France. To date he has illustrated more than 250 literary works. He started exhibiting from 1975 in Algeria, Bulgaria and Germany and in 1978 participated at the World Expo of young painters in Cuba. Since then Tahar has exhibited globally from Spain, Switzerland, France, Tunisia and Italy to Washington in the USA, Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Cap Town (South Africa) and last participation was in 2010 “ Art for Peace” at Seoul( South Korea)... He has also painted many murals and ceramics in Algeria for specially universities... In 2004 Tahar was invited to participate in the International Exhibition in Barcelona at the ‘Centenary of Salvador Dali’. His works are in several private collections, government and Royal museums around the world. He live and work in Algiers since 1975.

Dialogue with Hammamet Monoprints on paper 42,33 x 95 x24 cm 2006

Kostas Panaretos Kostas Panaretos was born in Athens in 1964. He studied ceramic in the state school of professional training and from 1986 till 2004 he worked as a teacher in ceramic schools of Greece. He has exposed his work in “Ceramieus” gallery in Athens (2000).

He has also participated in group exhibitions: Panhellenic Ceramics Exhibition (1987, 1988, 1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999), Ceramic Exhibition, Markopoulo (1990), “Levels” gallery, Athens (1991), 1st European Ceramic Competition ( Grand Prize, 2004). He has also received many distinctions at Panhellenic ceramic Exhibitions (1989, 1995, 1996, 1998). He had his own workshop in Athens (1986-2007) and then to Corfu.

From 1990 he is working with Clio Brenner. From 1991 he is a member of the Visual Arts Chamber.

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Despina Papadopoulou Despina Papadopoulou is an autodidact painter. She comes from Greece, she was born on 1963, and she lives in Germany.

The unprotected, vulnerable and deeply injured is the central theme of my art. I had as a nurse for many years worked...until 3 prior years I decided a new way to go. The path of Art!!! I will very clearly and also Drastik to the dark side of being notice. Because far too often is away, will remain closed if the view of things that nobody really wants to be true!! I would like to address the external and internal injuries ,the injury to the peoples sake only inflict themselves are capable of!!! Without guilty and yet again they are occurring as a daily, steadily and in secret, in silence with and against each other!!

The viewer of my works is required to inner contemplation and reflection, for making thoughts on his OWN!! The central theme of my art is deeply wounded being.

Dialogue Acrylic on canvas 120 x 100 cm 2008

José Américo de Oliveira Marques Pedroso José Américo de Oliveira Marques Pedroso was born in São Paulo in 1953. He is an artist and designer. He studied Animal Science at the State University Julio de MesquitaFilho UNESP Campus de Jaboticabal (1978). Self-taught in Arts courses and internships in studios of sculptors, potters and paper mills, (1987/1993/94 / 95/98/2002).

In 1994 he returned to Maiden Island, within the State of São Paulo, where he decides to work only with design and sculpture in Active · Art Workshop, using carbon steel, stainless steel, wood in organic form, acrylic, handmade paper, stone powder, glass and concrete cell. In August 2002, conceived and founded the Association of Fine Ilhense Artes.2007 start their work in digital art. Collective and individual exhibitions in Brazil, USA, Spain, Portugal, France, England Italy, Germany, Czech Republic and Chile (2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010). He has been rewarded many times and his works are found in private collections and museums, sculptures, art books published in Brazil and abroad.

Creativity is present in small things. It is, for example, in the act of looking at nature and how it can be reused for patterns plastically always subjective and cultural beauty.

It is this mystery that drives the work of Jose Americo in his ongoing research materials. The main feature of his sculptures and wall table is in the mix of types of wood (mastic, for example) with metallic elements (carbon steel, among others). The visual result of the dialogue is marked by the dominance of abstraction and the curved line.

Various compositions generally appear in subtle organic shapes. The artist also makes jewelry. Work as studies of larger works, constructed from pieces of wood found on the banks of the Parana River and the shaping of the steel... (Oscar D’Ambrosio).

Wind Rolled mixed media 33 x 34 x 15 cm 2011

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. Some wanted to use their artistic abilities to attest to the brutal living conditions of every day life in Mexico.

Others used their art to express their political opinions. 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.

Sunset oil on panel 20 x 25 cm 2007

Aspasia Sigourakou Aspasia Sigourakou was born in Piraeus where she lived till 1980. Since then she is living in Corfu with her family. After academic training in literature, translation and sociolinguistics, she turned to fine arts, her lifelong ambition. She is self trained artist and photographer. Since 2002 she offers voluntary artistic assistance to local schools and held group exhibitions mainly in Corfu. On August 2009 she held her first solo exhibition under the title : “Photopainting : the wild flowers of Corfu”. 2009 -2011 she offered voluntary work to “Enallaktiko Politistiko Ergastiri Kerkyras” teaching fauxbijoux and cheap-art constructions.

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Kyklades

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Eleni Sishaki Eleni Sishaki was born in December 1972 in the village of Dioni, near the town of Komotini in Thrace-Greece.

I have attended the primary school in Dioni and the secondary school in Komotini and finished my studies as a qualified nurse in Heraklion Creta. Since 1995 I live and work in Komotini and since 2005 I have started practising amateur photography. I’m very happy to occupy myself at home with my aquariums and making jewels with alternative and cheap raw materials and painting.

Breathing together digital photography size may vary 2011

Andreas Sitorengo Andreas Sitorengo was born on 1972 in Sienna, Italy. He studied painting, engraving and sculpture at the workshops of D. Mitaras, T. Patraskides, and G. Lappas, respectively, at the Athens’ School of Fine Arts. Also, during 1998-1999 he won a scholarship from the Lillian Voudouris Foundation through which he attended classes on cinematography and video art at D. Kozaris’ class, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bergamo (Italy). On 1995 he attended a four-month course at the Winchester School of Fine Arts on a scholarship from the Foundation of State Scholarships at the ERASMUS program.

In 2003 he completed his two-year post-graduate studies on digital forms of art, at the Athens’ School of Fine Arts. He participated at the Third Festival for Human Rights, organized by the NGO “Open Horizons” and entitled “wo-man” at the Cheap-Art Gallery (2006) and at a six-artists residence in Istanbul, whose subject was the ancient city of Zeugma. He also participated with his video titled “dry soul”, in a 22 artists joint exhibition named “Fourth Dimension” organized by art historian Anna Hatziyiannaki at the Spyroudis boot camp in Aghia Paraskevi and in a Boston conference, at the “Art Interactive Gallery, 130 Bishop Allen drive, Cambridge”. In 2005 he participated with the video “scream”, at the Fourth Festival of Experimental Cinematographic Video and New Media “Strange Monitor” at the Thessalonica Cinematography Museum. He organized and participated in the show and workshop “den milao ellinika/non parlo italiano” in Lecce, Italy. He organized and participated in “rebirth” a group show of seven artists with their respective interactive works, in the old planetarium of the Evgenides foundation. “Scan Istanbul”, international workshop and show with Greek and Turkish artists in Istanbul. He participated at the 1st, 2nd, 4th and 5th International Festival Medi@terra, as well at the New European Artists’ Biennale in Sarajevo (2001) and in Athens (2003). He also participated at the International Triennale of Echigo-Tsumari Short Video Festival in Japan.

PSICHOSOMA video

Madeleine Strindberg Madeleine Strindberg was born in Cologne (Germany). She is currently Senior Lecturer at Brighton University. She lives and works in London. She received several awards and bursaries in UK. She exposed her works in solo and collective exhibitions in London, Sunderland, Leeds, Coventry, Brighton, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Cambridge, Aylesbury, Farnham, Mostyn – Wales, Spitelfields (UK), Rome, Bologna, Turin (Italy), Quimper (France), Berlin (Germany).

Right from the beginning I have always been interested in translating emotions into a visual language, to give feelings form. Thematically the work moves between opposite poles: the personal, things I have experienced, seen, imagined or dreamt; and the political, where secondary source material generates primary images. The underlying subject throughout all my work could best be described with the word CONFLICT. This can be of a political nature or equally inspired by autobiographical events.

Qalqilja oil on canvas 40 x 50 cm 2010

MONIA TARTARINI Monia Tartarini was born in Milan on October 4, 1975. She lives and works in Milan as a photographer. She considers herself a self- taught artist - always with a camera and a desire to speak through her photographs. Photography has been her passion since she was a child. After her graduation from the Australian Centre for Photography – Sydneyshe embarked on a trip around the world seeking to enhance her abilities in the art of recognizing photo opportunities and bringing them to life through the camera lens.

She travelled to many distant places in search of a universal sense of art. Her travels led her through the South Pacific, New Zeland, Australia, Tasmania, Papua New Guinea, Antarctica,

Indonesia, Thailand.

Energy is expressed in her art through simple

originality, creating a speechless and beautiful effect. Her range of subjects is wide from the very most southern part of the Earth to beach scenes, surfers, nature, landscape.

She is specialized in environmental and studio portraiture.

ZAHIRA Photography, 150x70 cm

PAOLO TINELLA Paolo Tinella was born at Locorotondo, Italy, on October 15, 1966. His great passion for painting makes him experiment several materials and techniques. He specializes in the restoration of canvas, frescos and in encaustic technique. His experience as restorer and advertising graphic is the basis of his artistic involvement in painting. His figurative canvas reveal the inwardness of the subjects by means of expressionistic brushstrokes.

His curiosity makes him experiment other artistic languages such as installation and performance. He collaborated with several studios of architecture, graphics and design.

He is one of the founders of “Adunanze� - an artistic association with the aim of promoting contemporary art organizing international exhibitions and workshops. He took part to various collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad.

PORTRAIT OF CESARIA EVORA Mixed media on canvas, 60x100 cm

SPYROS TROUSAS Spyros Trousas was born in Corfu in 1949. He is graduated from A.S.T.E Rhodes. He studied sketching in Athens and attended lessons on the History of Arts under the Arts Historian and Professor of University of Ioannina mr Th . Cristou. He became closely acquainted with Renaissance and Baroque Art during his 4 years stay in Italy.

He is one of the founders member and vice-president of Cultural cooperation of Corfu.

He is member of Artist committee of Corfiot Gallery. He is also member of The cultural Association of ? talia in Arte, the cultural Association of ‘Athene’ in Catania. ? e participated in cultural evens of International movements of Greek –speaking women and international association of Greek writers. He received the title of Academic Master from the International culture Academy of Milan ‘SEVERIADE’. In 2006 he received the REMBRANDT Prize. His paintings have received excellent comments from the Hellenic Cultural and Arts Foundation of South Australia. He has been honoured from: The Club of Classical Athletics “OLYMPIAS”, the Municipalities of AthensKallitheas-Iliou-Ancient Feneos-Kassopeon-Leucadas e.t.c . He has organized 7 Personal exhibitions and he had participated in over 60 Group-exhibitions in U.S.A., England, Italy and Greece.

SPRING Oil on canvas

YUAN YUAN Yuan Yuan was born in 1980. She got a Master of Science in Forest Products Marketing at the University of Washington, an M.E. and B.E. in Interior and Furniture Design at Nanjing Forestry University. She is Lecturer at Suzhou Art & Design Technology Institute and has been Research Assistant, CINTRAFOR, University of Washington (Sep. 2006-Jun. 2007).

As an artist and a designer working mainly in mainland China, I have been keeping an eye on events happening in this land and daily life of ordinary people. Some are astounding, some are dramatic, some are humorous, and some are touching. I believe in the borderless communication among artists in the world once we can find the true way of expressing. In my art works, the basic belief and principle are to identify the dignity and value of individual life in whatever difficult and struggling situations.

YOUR NAME Computer graphics, 2009

GHEORGHE ZAHARIA Gheorghe Zaharia was born in 1952 in Romania. He is a Romanian and an American citizen. He lives and works in Bucharest. He obtained an MA in Sculpture at Fine Arts Academy in Bucharest. He is a member of the Union of Fine Art Professionals from Romania and the International Association for Monumental Sculpture Events. He has exhibited his works in several national and international exhibitions, including Yekaterinburg (Russia), Athens (Greece), Samothrace (Greece), Cannes (France), Bucharest (Romania), Eskisehir (Turkey), Crete(Greece), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Buzau (Romania), Beijing (China) and Sibiu (Romania). He was awarded with the 3rd prize at The Young Artists Gala “The Spring”, Bucharest (2006), the Gold Medal at the Olympic Fine Arts Exhibition, Beijing (2008), the Plaquette d’or at the 12th Intl. Art Salon MCA Azur, Cannes (2010), third place at the 2nd International Biennial of Painters and Sculptors, Split, Croatia (2010) and the sculpture prize at the 5th Edition of Little Salon, Art Shelter Gallery, Bucharest.

ASCENSION Bronze, 20x30x20 cm, 2010

ANNA ZAYIDOVA FIDJE Anna Zayidova Fidje is a young artist, which focuses on experiment in art. She first created as painter, then as photographer. Her long search for inspiration led her to a new wave of art. And now she creates in a unique technique combining watercolours and photography. Anna creates under the pseudonym of Fidje. She obtained medals at such competition as Trierenberg Super Circuit “Gold medal of excellence” (Austria, 2008); No Borders “Experiment” (Poland, 2005). She is one of the laureate of Russia Art Week 2010 and thrice laureate by All-Russian Pushkin's Festival Of Art (Russia, 2004, 2006, 2007). Her work was submitted to exhibitions in Austria, Germany, Qatar and India.

ICY TREE Processing graphics, 50x70 cm, 2009

SHANGLIE ZHOU Shanglie Zhou was born in Shanghai in 1958 and lives in Belgium. She studied art and design at Shanghai Light Industry University and did advanced studies of multimedia-computer art while she was teaching painting at Shanghai University Fine Arts College. During the 80’s, she did on-site research on ancient Asian cultures along the Silk Road and anthropological research on collective tribal religion, ritual ceremony, social structure, folk art and literature of 18 minorities in Eastern Asia. In 1991, she moved to Belgium and studied at the National Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium and was a Researcher in Ghent University, Belgium. In 2003 and 2004 she staged a performance theater piece with refugees from refugee-camps in Belgium, “When The Moon Waxed Red – Experiments With Truth And Reconciliation” in Fedasil and Kaaitheater. She has had more than 50 exhibitions and received national and international art awards in China, Belgium, and the United States. She is currently working on the following projects: International philosophical art project “Walking On Thin Ice - experiments with truth, justice and reconciliation”; the scientific research project “Sandscape” (206 BC – 2060 AD); architectural multimedia project “Urban Liquid”; and a multi-media project “Tomorrow Sun”. She is also doing research on the interrelationships between art and philosophy and art and science. In recent years, she has been working with European art projects in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Greece, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Scotland.

MEMENTO FONTIS Video, 2011

WE NEVER KNOW THE DISTANCE Photography on canvas, 30x40 cm, 1997