ATHENS OPEN ART 1 0 T H
D E C E M B E R
GALLERY
SNEHTA
NODNOL EXHIBITIONS
INDEX 1. KOSTAS KOROVILAS 2. OLIVIA ROSE 3. DENITSA MIHAYLOVA 4. COSTA XANTHIS 5. AAKASH RAJENDRA MALI 6. NIKKI ALLFORD 7. SULE CIFTCI 8. DINGNI WEI
KOSTAS KOROVILAS
FB: Kostas Korovilas Studio of The Arts Kostas Korovilas, abstract expressionism painter. His paintings are poetic allegories expressing the unknown, worlds far beyond that an ordinary mind cannot reach.He is inspired and influenced by Kosmos and states of mind. He studied painting at the West of England College of Art, Theatre design at he Old Vic Theatre School, Bristol, England, and philosophy at University College London He worked as theatre and costume designer in repertory theatres in UK, London Scotland and elsewhere. He is now dedicated to painting and poetry. He has participated in several international art shows. London biennale twice, Paris Art Code at Grand Palais, Art Monaco, Monte Carlo, Palermo biennale, Vienna Moya museum, Athens and has recieved various awards. He is now living in Athens
OLIVIA ROSE IG: @oliviarose.kunst
Olivia Rose was born and raised in Vienna, where many countless weekends were spent at museums and galleries with her family. Whilst she pursued her studies in psychology and psychotherapy; exploring her subconscious in various ways, became of interest. Yearning to find new and creative ways to make her pieces, her style can be described as vibrant and experimental. Without committing to an outcome, she expresses her emotions through exploring colors, materials, medias and techniques; one never knows what to expect next.
DENITSA MIHAYLOVA
IG: @denitsa.mihaylova.art
Denitsa Mihaylova is a painter based in Sofia, Bulgaria. She graduates Master's Degree at National Academy of Art, Sofia Bulgaria She has several solo exhibitions and participations in various group art projects and exhibitions in Bulgaria and Europe. Denitsa is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists. Through her art Denitsa present a journey to one world fulfilled with colors, lines, figures inspired from the nature and from the colorful emotions that are trying to touch and to provoke the spectators. The paintings are presenting a special state of the spirit that expresses an invisible inner world and journey full of imagination, world that is outside the boundaries of the reality full of fantasies where your spirit is free and unrestricted to fly. Everyone enriches the story by seeing or feeling different images, and sometimes it could be a memory or a dream.
COSTA XANTHIS IG: @costa.xanthis
Costa Xanthis is a visual artist and a student at the Faculty of Visual and Applied Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, demonstrating a background in Ceramics and a Bachelor's in Theology. He mainly focuses on three-dimensional compositions while being influenced by the work of E.Haeckel, K.Blossfeltd, B.R.Dietzsch, H.Bosch, and the movement of biomorphism in art. His work often deals with the dual reality of things and circumstances. The two compositions “Fragile Growth I” and “Fragile Growth II” are the result of his research about how growth succeeds decay and prosperity comes after decline. The thin and fragile nature of the clearly outlined ceramic forms plays an important role as it contrasts the heavy and barren rock formations underneath while being their aftermath.
AAKASH RAJENDRA MALI IG:@Kabir447 Aakash Rajendra Mali was born in 1999 in Vadodara district, Gujarat, India to a family of farmers. After graduation from high school, he pursued an Interior Design at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad. The design schooling was a starting point to provide him an exposure to the Fine Art discipline. Aakash discovered a new visual vocabulary inspired by the Kota Paintings and has been working on subjects such as animal hunting, Urban Poverty, Fantasy Landscape and reimagining folktales such as the Arabian Nights. The Sikar series is thought to explore and revisit the subject such as animal hunting and help the viewer to comprehend the subject with a new perspective and to encourage the idea of coexistence. While ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ explores the narrative and imaginative subject and an experiment on combining fluid forms, Interior elements and appearance of the characters into his paintings.
NIKKI ALLFORD IG:@nikkiallfordart
Nikki's practice involves time consuming repetitive processes, with an obsessional attention to detail. As she manipulates and pushes the possibilities of her materials expectations are left unsettled, emphasising the physicality and materiality. Her Installations have a presence that disrupts a space. Structures are built from the accumulation of lines and tape . The resultant pieces can be read as abstract, or as hinting at other qualities - perhaps reminiscent of the innards of the body, pools of blood or water, feathers, skins or organic plant growth. Nikki exhibits Nationally and Internationally, including Moscow, Mexico City, Prague,Slovakia and London.
SULE CIFTCI IG: @suleciftc
Sule Ciftci is an artist based in İstanbul. She mostly emphasizes the silent, unnoticed emotions in the chaos through the figurative forms she creates. She creates an expression that flows from chaos to simplicity by playing with the words whose meanings have been assigned by others, the shapes that are free to be unclear, and colors that create a different memory each moment. She feels the reflections and intensity of different emotions arising from the society or herself, and reflects the power of balance and senses on painting. Having an education on architecture and design provides her with various opportunities such as multidisciplinary perspective, creating or destroying form.
DINGNI WEI IG:@dongni_wei
Dongni Wei is an illustrator, picturebook author and picturebook-making educator, based in Beijing, China. She graduated from MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art in 2019 and currently is represented by the Bright Agency. Dongni has published four children’s picture books. Her artworks have been invited to many international exhibitions and selected to international illustration competitions from the Europe to China. Bold and vibrant colours with mixed media are her visual voice. The inspiration for her work comes from her daily life, travels around the world, people she loves, and different cultures.
ATHENS OPEN ART 10th December