ATHENS OPEN ART 1 1 T H
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INDEX 1. KONSTANTINOS CHATZIZISIS 2. MAYA COAQUETTE 3. CHRISANTEM 4. PASTITSADA 5. TESSA BLOT 6. HUGO LOUPY 7. SOFIA FIORAMONTI 8. THOMAS FALKNER 9. MARIA TOULOUPA 10. ROSARIIO 11. MICHAEL EPPS 12. OLIVIA GHALIOUNGUI 13. DR. EMER O’BRIEN 14. CRISTINA FERRI (LINK.ATHENS) 15. NIKITAS KAKAKIS 16. ΝERTA GIONI
KONSTANTINOS CHATZIZISIS IG: @xoxogossip_boy Kostantinos is a travel photographer who combines modern adventures with vintage aesthetics. He studied photography and has taken part in three photo exhibitions in Thessaloniki. Inspired by nostalgic settings, affairs of the past, and colourful contrasts, Kostantinos is an escapist who never compromises to stay in one place. He is now having his own travel blog, sharing the best clicks of his adventures with his audience.
MAYA COAQUETTE IG: @maytikk Maya Coaquette is a young French photographer who started photography two years ago through the prism of film. Composed mainly of portraits of friends, dancers and festive moments, but also of landscapes and nudes, the work presented is the mirror of a generation that seeks to go beyond the rules and constraints to reappropriate their bodies and their thoughts. After having exhibited at Nikon's headquarters in Paris, Maya will take over the Parisian gallery "The Window" to present her first photographic exhibition.
CHRISANTEM IG:@chrisantem.art Chrisantem is an analog black & white photographer and a painter from Prague, Czech Republic. He is 33 years old. At the age of thirteen, he began taking pictures and developing photos in his home darkroom. He studied photography in the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU). He likes at most portraying people in the studio, trying to express deep hidden emotions and thoughts. Each of his artwork is a deep dive to the human consciousness and soul.
PASTITSADA IG:@retropunky_pastitsada Chrysanthi Theodosi, is an actress and self taught collage artist. For her artworks she uses the name "pastitsada", a self definition as an honour to a traditional corfiot dish that goes by the same name, since she was born and raised in corfu, combined with the word etymology referring to the technique of pastiche. Having experimented with analogue and digital collage since 2012, she creates surreal personas found in utopian worlds, using self portraits and everyday life pictures. Her inspiration sparkles under the influence of psychotherapy and the examination of personal experiences through humor. This specific project is titled: 'Subconscious minds', an umbrella which embraces the various aspects of the self that coexist and affect each other through the challenges of life.
TESSA BLOT IG: @tessablot French photographer living in Greece, Tessa Blot focuses her work on norms, identities and bodies. She specializes in portrait and film photography, as she has a strong attachment to this medium and its material and authentic aspects. She graduated in film studies from which she draws most of her inspirations and influences. The models in her pictures are people who she has met and have been a part of her life in several ways. This is why intimacy is an important aspect of her work.
HUGO LOUPY IG: @hugoloupy
"Hugo Loupy is a film photographer based in Paris. Born in Reunion Island, he discovered the art of photography after moving to Paris for his studies and taught himself how to use a camera. Once his studies finished, he embarked himself on a solo trip around India and Australia with his cameras for only companions. That’s where he truly fell in love with the magic of film and realised this was more than a hobby. Since then, he moved back to France and always learning from the greats of street photography, he’s pursuing his passion on the cobbles of Paris."
SOFIA FIORAMONTI IG: @sofiafior_
Sofia Fioramonti is an Italian artist, born in 1997. Sofia pursued an alternative path that led her to the art field. She has not studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, but she has always observed the world around her, adopting a curious and perceptive approach. She graduated in Architecture. She has lived between Italy, France and Portugal, experimenting and mixing different techniques, from videography to photography and painting. Her work is strongly inspired by the alienation and deep sense of loneliness typical of Edward Hopper’s poetics. In 2021 she showed her first short film “The Nest” at the Holy Art Gallery in London and she was one of the 100 emerging artists exhibiting at the Rea Fair in Milan.
THOMAS FALKNER IG: @thofalkner Lives in Berlin. Self-taught artist. When photography and digitalization started coming together a good twenty years ago, it occupied him more and more in his spare time. In the beginning, there were real-image montages of motifs that did not match in the real world, which were combined to ultimately disturbing new images. Now he offers what he calls photographic prints: highly reduced and distorted photographs in which structures, contexts and again perspectives become clear. In this style we see the Federal Chancellery he lets the massive façade recede behind the abstract sculpture in the foreground . When looking across the Spree, all that remains of the heavy, old Reichstag is the new, light glass dom
MARIA TOULOUPA IG: @palettepillows
Maria Touloupa is a 3rd year fine art student studying in Scotland. Her work reflects Christian religious symbolisms in Renaissance art and biblical stories such as Adam and Eve. It is mainly inspired by her upbringing in a Greek orthodox environment, which makes her question her role as a woman upon traversing adulthood. She analyses concepts such as dissemblance in Christianity, Madonna’s virginity and their manifestation through iconography.
ROSARIIO IG: @justrosa_justrosa ROSARIIO Nandjui is a French photographer from Paris , at the age of 22 ROSARIIO moved to Russia and started doing photography In Moscow. ROSARIIO’s work is characterized by the subjective ideal of beauty . Mostly in black and white his attention is drawn by clean lines and strong forms . This graphic simplicity allowed his images to be read and felt instantaneously . His work often challenged conventional notions of gender or race . ROSARIIO lives and work between Paris and Moscow
MICHAEL EPPS IG: @michaelepps Michael Epps is a Portrait Photographer and Filmmaker, based in New York. Some of his cinematic influences include, Tarkovsky, Bergman, and Fellini. His favorite photographers are Richard Avedon, Mario Testino, and Stephen Meisel. He's been exhibited in several international group shows, and publications. His short films have been screened internationally, at several festivals.
OLIVIA GHALIOUNGUI IG: @oliviaghalioungui Olivia Ghalioungui is a 23 year old photographer who works with both digital and analog photography. Born in Athens in 1998 and brought up in between Cairo, Egypt and Antiparos, Greece, She focuses mainly on fashion and diaristic analog photography. After attending grade school in Cairo from 2005 to 2016, at the age of 17 she moved to Paris to pursue a career in the fashion photography industry, and has since been interviewed for Creators Magazine, Page Magazine, and Frameload. Publications include ELLE Arabia, Crash Magazine, Purple Magazine, Mob Journal, and A Part Publications, among others.
DR. EMER O’BRIEN emerobrienstudio@gmail.com Dr. Emer O’Brien is an installation artist and the Professor of Photography at Deree College, the American College of Greece. Her work is primarily concerned with Modernity. It refers to a particular relationship to time, one characterized by intense historical discontinuity or rupture, openness to the novelty of the future and a heightened sensitivity to what is unique about the present. Started in 2003 ‘ Contemporary Amnesia ’ is a series of analogue photographs and lightboxes characterised by specific forms of response towards both Modernization (technological, economic and political processes) and Modernity (the social conditions and modes of experience that are seen as the effects of these processes). The title ‘ Contemporary Amnesia ’ refers to the predicament of a simultaneous process of construction and disintegration - the Modernist tradition represented by a ‘Change of State’.
CRISTINA FERRI IG: @cris.tina.ferri Cristina Ferri is an Italian visual artist born in Matera in 1995, she degreed in Arts and Sciences of Performing Arts at "La Sapienza" University of Rome; she has been dedicating herself to visual arts since 2018. She discovered photography through self-portraiture, which is still a fundamental part of her artistic production. Her photography embraces fashion and makes it float in a world suspended between dream and absurd, pervaded by a surreal and intangible atmosphere.
NIKITAS "NIK" KAKAKIS IG: nikitasyaw "Nikitas "Nik" Kakakis, is a photographer currently studying photography in Athens. Raised in the small island of Sifnos, he grew fond of the art of photography at a young age. His passion for travel led him to buy his first camera, at the age of 10, as a means of preserving the memories, the feelings and the sceneries he visited. He firmly believes that, indeed, a picture is worth a thousand words, because in a single image you can capture a whole story which, otherwise, would take an entire chapter of a book to narrate!"
ΝERTA GIONI IG: nerta.gioni " Nerta Gioni's artworks are expression of personal experiences or her life’s vision. She creates to keep a diary of events that changed her, or better, to remember who she was in the process of changing, to reconstruct her lost self. She also paints since 3 years old, so it comes naturally to her interpreting emotions through images and having an elegant approach in photography. She has always been inspired by fashion editorials and psychology. In her real life she is a fashion photographer, graduate of the University of West Attica, department of Photography & Audivisual Arts. Currently she works as an in house photographer for one of the biggest fast fashion brands in Athens, Greece.
ATHENS OPEN ART 11TH MARCH