ATHENS OPEN ART 1 4 T H
J A N U A R Y
GALLERY
SNEHTA
NODNOL EXHIBITIONS
INDEX
1. TERRY MOUSTAKAKI 2. ISTOS 3. SAMIOU ARGYRO 4. CBTH 5. NANO. 6. LINA KAKALETSI. 7. MARO ANTONAKOU 8. DOROTHEA KOLIA 9. CHRISTINA FRAGKIA 10. SINEM SPILIOTOPOULOS 11. AURORE LE LUDEC
TERRY MOUSTAKAKI (13:13) IG: @terrym.art_1313
Started creating photorealistic drawings, which led into 2 years of learning freehand and linear drawing. Studied Art & Design with the desire to learn the different applications of art in everyday life, along with the use of different practices and mediums upon occasion. Went into the art of tattoo, mesmerised by the permanence and accuracy needed, using skin as canvas. Mediums of choice are coloured pencils, ink and acrylics. Her graphic design projects are mostly cards, posters, album covers and logos for fellow artists. Her visual artworks are in the form of surrealism (drawings or collage) and abstract expressionism. Driven by lines, patterns, textures and the ongoing love affair of color combinations and light. Loves the challenge of custom work.
ISTOS toutougreg@gmail.com
In a reality overwhelmed by the chaos of modern living, serenity can be found in the unexplored surrealism of the subconscious mind. A moment of silence A breath before the fight A playground for your inner child Embrace the unknown, explore your mind… Enter surrealism. (ISTOS, self-taught painter, inspired by the complexity of the mind and the beauty of nature, where you are never alone)
SAMIOU ARGYRO IG: @argyro_samiou
Argyro Samiou has studied fashion design and history of clothing. In her paintings, she uses various techniques and draws inspiration by Pop art, Polka Dot Art and Aboriginal art. She has taken part in group exhibitions in Greece. Due to her environmental awareness, she prefers to make custom creations, with recyclable materials. Loves the colors for the inspiration and positivity they render.
CHARLES BRUN-THEREMIN AKA CBTH IG: @cbth_artist CBTH is a French artist from Paris. He is living and working between Paris and Athens. His painting is a work of honesty and introspection. He is in a perpetual quest of exploring what we are and what comes out of us. He concentrates to reach a meditative state where he allows instincts to take over and lead to what has to be done. It then goes from free figuration to abstraction, all this included in a surrealist-expressionism dynamic. .
NANO IG: @nanos_world_ NANO is a contemporary, London based Greek artist who focuses on pop art creations through the use of digital and mixed media. Having studied and worked in New York and London, he decided to pursue his passion for art and studied illustration at University of the Arts London. Through his mosaic art pieces, NANO aims to convey the importance and beauty of diversity. His art-pieces have been featured in popular publications and are rapidly becoming part of important public and private selections, such as that of the 5-star Athens Capital Hotel of the Hyatt Regency in Thessaloniki. He has also been sought after for commercial collaborations, with his most recent work being the decoration of Athens' buses which he was commissioned for by the Greek Ministry of Transport.
LINA KAKALETSI IG:@bluecement_ @_kk.lina
Lina Kakaletsi is an architect and painter based in Athens. She studied Architecture in the university of Patras and she is a self-taught painter. She finds her inspiration in the everyday domestic life and the objects that surround her. In her methodology she incorporates photography and projections as means of deconstructing that reality, some times in a surrealistic manner. In her paintings she uses simple materials like Ink, Acrylic, Charcoal and Chalk. She is influenced by artists like Joan Miro, Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin.
MARO ANTONAKOU IG: @maroad _
Maro Antonakou is 27 years old. Born and raised in Greece. She started painting as a hobby. She was inspired primarily by her tutor Konstantinos Archaniotis, who taught her to admire and appreciate all forms of art. To that end, her work introduces and marries different materials and explores the digital dimensions of art. Maro uses Ink, cement, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, pencil and clay among others. She graduated school in Athens (2012), during which time she was studying Fine Arts. During this period, she first exhibited her work and made contact with the public. She studied Landscape Architecture and Design in Leeds Beckett university (2013-2016). Currently, she is working as a Project Manager in the construction field, while continuing to express herself creatively through painting.
DOROTHEA KOLIA IG:@doro_thea_art
Dorothea Kolia was born in Markopoulo Mesogeas She studied Arts and Design, University of Derby, UK, combined with post graduate studies in Art Therapy. The central theme of the artists’ work is a desire for communication, transferring messages and esoteric knowledge. Her experience in teaching children for several years has combined with her artistic talents by presenting art as an alternative solution and a parallel learning method in various areas (art lessons for refugee children, environmental seminars for teachers, visual art History workshops in primary education etc). It is her vision to introduce a new teaching system through art, which will complete the classic methods for teaching History and other subjects.s The painting “Santorini” is based on Goethe’s study “The Theory of colours”.
CHRISTINA FRAGKIA IG:@christinafragkia Christina Fragkia is a self-taught artist based in Athens. She works primarily with acrylics, watercolors and gouache. Her artworks are an expression of her deepest feelings and thoughts on canvas. She is moved and inspired by the universe, the energy around her and the thought that we are all connected..
SINEM SPILIOTOPOULOS IG:@nocco.nocco Sinem (38) is a Turkish born self-taught glass artist, who lives in Greece with her husband and son. Her glass adventure began a decade ago with a small torch in the corner of her house. Through hard work and a passion for her Art, she successfully obtained an entrepreneur’s grant, built and kitted out a workshop. Sinem is influenced by Japanese glass art; her fascination for the material comes from ancient glass objects. To her, seeing something so fragile withstand the test of time, reaching far beyond the life of their makers, is magical. Sinem dares to dream that, when she is long gone, her legacy of Art might defy time itself too.
AURORE LE LUDEC IG:@aurorelldc Aurore le Ludec is a 29-year-old French artist. She graduatedfrom a Master 2 in research in Art and International Creation at “École des arts de La Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne” She works in particular on abstraction and portrait. Oil, acrylic, posca, fabric, the artist uses different techniques. For this exhibition, she presents two results of her research on becoming one with painting through a symbolic transposition of her menstrual blood into pictorial flow and colored prints. Studying in particular the colors and the absorptions of matter, the work of the artist is a sensitive and poetic result. Multiplying research with different colors and differentformats always with the aim of a new result, the artist's works combines a letting go and a real union between the artist and his work.
ATHENS OPEN ART 14TH JANUARY