Exhibition Catalogue | 16th July

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INDEX 1. VERENA BAUER 2. MORGANE NICOLAIDIS 3. ANASTASIA SAITA 4. FOTINI KAVALARI 5. POLINA A.K.A. ART POH 6. MICHAILIDOU NINA 7. TOLUWALASE RAYMOND AWOLAJA 8. SOTIRIS ILIADIS 9. ELLI ZARIFI (ELZARART) 10. MYRTO KALLIGA GAVRILI 11. DIOCHNOU DIONE-DESPINA (DORMEHZ) 12. HENNA BAKHSHI 13. SEVASTI CHATZISAVIDOU

VERENA BAUER @wvwerena

Verena Bauer´s artwork is all about bringing her past experience as well as her daily life to canvas. Due to this her work changes focus on different series quite often. The artist likes to experiment with colour, technique, and materials.

The currently exhibited artworks belong to a series about the generation of the artist. They talk about being confused, feeling alone, and having to focus on the wrong things in life.

Verena Bauer is a self-taught artist from Austria. She is currently non-exclusively represented by the Albe Art Gallery and her works have already been displayed in several exhibitions: ·

Diversia: Woman 2021 – Biafarin Exhibition

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Artist of the Month March 2021 – Artjobs.com

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New Era – Art Number 23

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Speechless – Albe Art Gallery

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Athens Open Art – Art Number 23

MORGANE NICOLAIDIS @morganenicolaidis

I'm Morgane, a French-Greek artist based in Athens.

I grew up reading comic books, and ever since I’m a little girl it is something that we always did in my family.

I love the freshness, the originality and the freedom that this artistic style gives you.

Because of my love for comic art, my illustrations are mostly influenced by its characteristics.

My multicultural background has considerably helped me find the topics of my drawings. I have chosen to draw mostly about different cultures, ethnicities and traditions of the World.

I have a passion for all the ethnic diversity that the World has to offer and I desire to show it through my art and style.

Very often the areas around the Mediterranean and the Middle East are a great source of motivation and influence for me.

ANASTASIA SAITA @anastasia.st_

As a mechanical engineering student, my view of life can be practical and maybe a bit literal so, in an attempt to preserve my wild imagination and creativity, I make art. From a young age, literature and painting was my way of expressing my inner thoughts and making the world seem less chaotic. Creating art developed into an actual need, not just a passion. This is my first attempt to show the world my view of life, through a painting of a dreamy world that falls in the hands of a powerful woman.

FOTINI KAVALARI @fotinikavalari

Working on the internal anxieties of modern man and realizing their vastness,i declare the emptiness and the distance that modern man has from the deepest in his and the momentum of his soul towards....stating, at the same time that anxiety and action are the main goal in succeeding in the momentary interest in emotions today.

A subject which is deposited in reflection towards a more interesting reading opening the horizons and the soul for a critical introspection

POLINA A.K.A. ART POH @_art_poh_

My name is Polina and I'm an artist. Art for me is a very intimate dialogue between the artist and the viewer.

Portrait of my left foot This work reveals a trend towards narcissism in social networks and questions of selfesteem. What is worthy of the viewer's attention? Am I the whole or even a part of me that has the right to be popular on the net? Is the person or her body attractive?

SWY (I) PE Work on increasing the speed of life in the modern world. You have to chase trends all the time, keep up with all the changes, novelties, news to just living. And it's also about our scrolling through lives with each swipe.

MICHAILIDOU NINA @nina.mch

Artist from Greece, Michailidou Nina has graduated from School of Fine Arts and Art Sciences of University of Ioannina, with an Erasmus+ scholarship in Spain. She continued her studies in Interior Design. Also, she is a member of Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, and she deals with various art forms, such as painting, engraving and photography.

Nina has in her CV two individual exhibitions in Thessaloniki, the first one at Myro Gallery in 2017, with the title "Prosopia”, and the second at Govedarou Art Gallery, in 2020 with the title “Memory”. However, she has participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, such as Athens Video Art Festival in 2013, Art Thessaloniki, an International Contemporary Art Fair in 2019, the group exhibition (Im)Possibilities at Galleria La Pigna, in Rome in 2021, the virtual exhibition ‘New Era’ at Art Number 23, in 2020-2021 and at the Artbox Project World 1.0 at Artbox Gallery in Zurich, in 2021.

TOLUWALASE RAYMOND AWOLAJA @toluraymondart Toluwalase Raymond Awolaja (A.K.A Tolu Raymond) is a contemporary Nigerian visual artist and was born 10th September, 1997 in lagos. He started art at an early age and furthered his education in art at YABATECH with an HND in painting.

Tolu’s artistic dynamism connects enthusiasts in more perspectives than one as he exploits the use of various mediums and techniques such as acrylic, charcoal, and oil whilst speaking on broader issues of self exploration and identity.

Across Tolu’s work, there is an implicit thematic projecting his interest in self image, identity formation, gender construct, society and governments impact in his telling of untold stories.

My work expresses one of the many struggles of humanity, the compelling social conditioning structured to force people to appear and act a certain way in order to be acceptable. The body of works highlights and interrogates the arduous struggles of the socalled “weirdos” whose inclinations are not in line with pre-existing status-quo or other forms of orthodoxy.

SOTIRIS ILIADIS @sotiris_eliadis

Sotiris Iliadis was born in Athens. He is a self-taught painter who relies on his desire to create, studying Art History, new currents and new materials. He experiments with various materials and techniques.

Thematically, his painting revolves around the human form and landscapes using mainly acrylic paints on canvas and old wood.

He lives and works in Athens.

ELLI ZARIFI (ELZARART) @elzarart_and_more

I'm an abstract and contemporary acrylic artist based in Athens. Studied Marketing and Advertising and worked in the field until I became a mother. After a long hiatus where my art took a back seat to my life, and the support of my husband, I took lessons in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and I'm finally putting some focus back on my passion. I view my work as a journey full of love, happiness, and light. But sometimes there are moments of pain and darkness.

MYRTO KALLIGA GAVRILI @kalli_gavrili

My name is Myrto Kalliga Gavrili, and I am an artist based in Athens. I am currently studying in direction workshops painting and engraving at a Fine Arts University. Choosing to be challenged every day by using different mediums and techniques to explore the range of creative possibilities in my artworks has provided me with the correct principles to begin my career. Therefore, attempting monotypes on paper unlocked a whole different universe for my work, thus exploring a subject of composition and visual language.

DIOCHNOU DIONE-DESPINA (DORMEHZ) @dormehz

Censored Art Imagine if art was censored. It would be of no use. Blocking the way to the truth should be illegal. It allows more and more misinformation to get stuck in our ideas and in our daily lives, making us unable to grasp the raw beauty of every reality. Watching the work of Diochnou D.Dione that has been exhibited as DORMEHZ (french/dormir) which means sleep or inertia, shows indirectly how your brain would stay if you don't work your way out of inaction.

While studying in The Athens School of Fine Arts the artist is in the search of finding the best way possible to transmit the one truth through the many timeless realities in the history of art.

HENNA BAKHSHI henna_b@hotmail.com

SEVASTI CHATZISAVIDOU @chatzisavidou

Dim. Eginitou 8 Thiseio Athens

@artnumber23

ATHENS OPEN ART 16th July 2021