ATHENS OPEN ART 1 7 T H
D E C E M B E R
GALLERY
SNEHTA
NODNOL EXHIBITIONS
INDEX 1. MARIA TITAN 2. MARIA LUISA ANGOU 3. NEFELI PARAMYTHIOTI 4. SANDRA MODREGO 5. VASILEIOS KARAVOTAS 6. ATHINA KYRIAKAKOU 7. KATERINA BABALOUKA 8. LOUISE HAPTON 9. ALEXANDRA ARNAVOUTOGLOU 10. GREGORY GOY 11. VICKY KOMNINOU 12. PATRICE LAMBEAU 13. GIOULI THOMA 14. MICAELA LEGNAIOLI
MARIA TITAN IG: mariatitanartist
Maria Titan is a full time artist living and working in Nicosia, Cyprus. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa where she grew up. She paints in mixed media and usually on paper. Her subject matter varies and will often include people, animals, food and interiors. Her work could be defined as figurative and expressive with bold likes and saturated colours. She is influenced by Klimt, Matisse and Frida Kahlo.
MARIA LUISA ANGOU IG: @maria.angou
Maria Luisa Angou is a Greek Russian artist based in Athens. She mainly creates abstract portraits but her subjects are not limited. Her works are characterized by very intense colors and experimentation with various medium and materials. She finds her inspiration in everything that she sees around her in her everyday life but she mainly interested in the person and his relationship with himself and therefore with the world. Looking at her paintings you can immerse yourself in emotions and enjoy the caused states. In her work she talks too much about women. The women she paints are as colorful as she sees them in real life. They do not pose, but they are in an internal , introspective state so they can provoke the same state to the spectator. "When im painting I'm not aware of what I'm doing and i dont want to have to explain what it is. I spread emotions on canvas and once you look at it it affects you. This is my purpose the spirit of true feelings."
NEFELI PARAMYTHIOTI IG: @nefelilium
Born in Athens, in 1993, she studied Education in Early Childhood in the University of Athens. She spents her time either painting or playing with children. She believes that everyone is capable of making Art and that Art is a language we should all be speaking. Therefore she always embeds art activities in her lesson plans. In 2016 she participated in an art exhibition of the painter Vasilis Michailidis, who introduced her to oil painting. In 2020 she had her first solo exhibition in Grigoriadi Gallery with the guidance of Maria Sikiaridis, the Gallery's supervisor. Since then she works with commissions and keeps a waitlist.
SANDRA MODREGO IG: @sandramodrego
With her collection Le Corps, Sandra vindicates the intrinsic beauty of the body, supporting the freedom of all forms, the principles of respect, and authenticity. Her works represent natural and free bodies, surrounded by colours that express their emotions and feelings, and which expand them in total harmony. Her will is to create works that invite us to love and care for all bodies. In this sense, Le Corps liberates itself from social conventions and draws itself as a pure subject of beauty and life.
VASILEIOS KARAVOTAS karavotasvas@gmail.com An architect and a painter, Vasileios Karavotas taught drawing and painting for a number of years at the educational centers of the Regional Committee for the Training of the Public. He organized and participated in group exhibitions in Patras. In this exhibition he presents a small sample of his artistic expression of the decades 80-90, where the influence from his architectural background is clearly visible. Works on watercolor paper with ink, watercolor and tempera gouache, inspired by both Greek mythology (Nireus-Aris) and the unhealing wounds of modern society (Lulu-Division).
ATHINA KYRIAKAKOU IG:@ath.inart @athina.kyriakakou
Athina Kyriakakou lives and works in Athens. She has completed her undergraduate studies in the restoration of buildings while her graduate studies were in scenography and theater costume design. She spends a lot of time working on her photography and painting. From her collection ‘Higher Pleasures’, she chose to present four representative pieces that focus on our most intimate pleasures, connection and eroticism, pushing us to question ourselves and stimulating the senses. What is pleasure? How guilty do we feel when we are enjoying ourselves? How would our faces look if we were caught on camera at the higher peak of our pleasure? And how would they look if we knew someone is observing us? What does the observer feel? Does he/she feel something? Have we stopped feeling? Is one image enough to make us feel? How much do these “higher pleasures” really affect us when we come upon them? What do we risk for them? Can we let ourselves go and truly enjoy them? How easy is it to share our internal and external nakedness?
KATERINA BABALOUKA IG: @_kat.babaloo_
Katerina Babalouka is there for vivid colours,flowers,tales and the combination of romantic and dark. Great inspiration for her has been the illustrations from some books such as fantasy and science fiction for she is a bookworm.Another inspiration are various tattoo artists as she respects and loves the art of tattooing.The main materials she uses are black pen and watercolor but she has been in love with charcoal too.
LOUISE HAPTON IG:@louise_hapton
Louise Hapton is a teen artist and writer from the South of France. The eyes on her paintings are her signature: they represent madness, anger, sadness, and death. They are the artist's chronic hallucinations since childhood, which she started suffering from after being bullied at school. Louise has always felt different and misunderstood and has tried to transcribe these feelings in her literary and visual work. Her interests in psychology and even psychiatry have inspired her to create a few pieces about mythology and imaginary tales seen in a psychoanalytic way, as they were the only human behaviour referral for a long time. Succubuses, demons, angels, and what she calls "errors" share her world full of vivid colours and empty silhouettes.
ALEXANDRA ARNAVOUTOGLOU IG:@lex.aart
Alexandra Arnavoutoglou (she/her) is an abstract painter and digital illustrator. She experiments with different mediums such as acrylic markers and watercolors. The defining features of her artworks are the use of intense colours, forms, lines and shapes. When starting a new piece she lets her spontaneity and intuition guide her. Oftentimes she has a general idea of what she is going to create but the meaning or even the whole concept is under gradual and constant change. She herself describes her process as similar to puzzle making, whose pieces connect together, forming a larger whole. Some of the artists that she draws inspiration from are Hattie Stewart and Eva Malley.
VICKY KOMNINOU IG:@blackcauldron_
Vicky is a mostly self taught ,amateur artist based in Athens, Greece . She had always been interested in drawing and painting and has been very active the past 5 years learning and experimenting with different mediums and styles ,one of her favourites being oil paintings inspired by Bob Ross's ala prima style which were one of the main reasons she fell in love with art.
PATRICE LAMBEAU IG:@Patricelambeau_
Swiss fine artist and musician Patrice Lambeau’s approach to his creative process is experimental. He combines traditional fine art techniques with innovative digital technology to create an aesthetic that is dynamic and unique to his work. Of his creative process, Patrice states “Creating art is sculpting emotions through a series of creative decisions. It is a dialogue between the artist, their world, and how they perceive it. For me, making art is the process of discovering beauty, meaning, urgency, humour and a way to explore our social and political climate”. Patrice has recently begun finalising his collages with several epoxy resin layers, which are often set, inseparably, into ornate antique frames. He currently resides in Berlin and is available for commission upon request. capsules book - curatorial 2 , leaders in contemporary art 2020
GIOULI THOMA IG:@thomagiouli
Thoma Giouli is a nurse, she was painting since was a little kid for personal pleasure. After a rough period she experienced working in a hospital due to covid she started to work for the public showing that life has its own bright side. Aglaope is her first painting to come out in the public eye.
MICAELA LEGNAIOLI IG:@m_i_c_a_e_la
Born in NewDelhi (India), she lived in different European and South American’s countries, since she decided to stay in Rome. From the early years she had a particular sensibility for visual arts. Her artistic path begins with flowers that spring from the assembly of discarded materials, "to give new life to what no longer seems to have any" Micaela emphasises the idea of something that, having lost its form and dignity, generates new form and different dignity. The result is an unexpected visual structure that is at once delicate, witty and whimsical. All her work is about the individual and existential problems, using mixed technique and different materials. The sequence of the works realized by Micaela is the path of formation and maturation of each one of us, in our anxieties, worries, hopes, ambitions, joys and desires.
ATHENS OPEN ART 17th December