Athens Open Art | 17th September

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NODNOL EXHIBITIONS

INDEX

1. SALIS 2. CHRISTOS CHATZIGEORGIOU 3. STEVÉN ‘GB-YEGA FAJANA 4. LOUIZA PERATIKOU 5. A.MAILLARD ANGELOPOULOS 6. DARE HERALD 7. EFI GEROKONSTANTI 8. GEORGE AGAP 9. DONA ASISI 10. HAROLD PERRIN 11. DAVID IAN BICKLEY 12. MOHAMMAD ALI FAMORI 13. AREZOU RAMEZANI

SALIS IG: @salis_paintings_drawings

Μichael Grimbilis (Salis) is a painter living in Athens Greece. He has been teached the

magical world of painting and drawing near the Visual artist DIMITRIS KARANDINOPOULOS. The styles of he's paintings are not just one.You can see expressionism, connected with naive style.Or impressionism with expressionist touches.He's mentores as an artist are CHAIM SOUTINE.APOSTOLOS GEORGIOY and other artists mostly expressionists.

CHRISTOS CHATZIGEORGIOU IG: @Christious_Art

In a moment of loneliness in the dark, where life has stopped, the mind begins to function at an unique way. Thoughts begin to spring and dance in the chaos of the atmosphere.

Images and memories bewilder the head. Darker and strange figures but - probably - more real. In the dark can shine even the least ray of light.

Passion and love, two words that always go together. Two emotions but one atmosphere that awakes and irritates mentally and physically, causing so much pain but also so much pleasure. It’s chased and persecuted forever by lonely souls. Like a piece of music written on souls, with a multitude of tensions and pauses, it gives to the atmosphere a sense of division, an sense of tension but also silence, liveliness but also frozen in the narrow context of time. One touch is enough to resurrect a life.

From the age of seven, with a brush in hand and passing through the architecture of the National Technical University of Architecture, I came to my first participation in an exhibition.

STEVÉN ‘GB-YEGA FAJANA IG: @art_of_gboye Art and creativity always mesmerized me since I was young, the infinite mix and variations. I have not been courageous to pursue this vocation wholeheartedly. Now I am stepping into the other side of the glass as an artist.

I live in London and received my Master’s degree in Design and Media Arts from the University of Westminster. I am a self-taught emerging multidisciplinary artist. My artistic preference is in photography, painting, sculpture, video and moving images. All these are interwoven to explore the visual gesture and the narrative possibilities presented in a type of “galleria”.

I started as a dancer but have always been fascinated with the dialogue between the visual nuance and the elusive pronounce in the artistic form. My videos have been screened and exhibited both nationally and on international platforms. My African identity and childhood memories stimulate my creative space. I draw influence from different artistic media and artists like Ben Enwonwu, Isaac Julien, Roy Lichtenstein, Basquiat, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Joan Miro, Young-Deok Seo etc. My art concentrates on the process with the visual narrative nuance by employing the available medium as a vessel to convey my story for each art pieces created.

LOUIZA PERATIKOU IG: @lou_perlou

I studied fine arts at Central Saint Martins in London and experimented with a variety of different art forms always initiating my ideas with a sketch. The last couple of years I have been concentrating on exploring the relations we create between mind and body, each other and I try to explore our detachment from existence, feelings and connections to ourselves and others.

A.MAILLARD ANGELOPOULOS IG: @alexisolid.15 My name is Alex , currently 23 year old. I've drawn for the majority of my life, making something out of the ordinary, a world that won't exist without me. I usually don't plant beforehand, it makes painting more free ,free to experiment. I like the works of Rene Magrite, Max Ernst, Henry Moore. They have built a world with atmosphere and inhabitants, it feels alive and beautiful. My art has a heavy dose of melancholy, but it is reasonable I think with everything that's going on. No matter how far you go into your fantasies the real world will always follow you

DARE HERALD IG: @Dareherald Dare Herald is an Artist, Storyteller and director of the Kokopelli Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria.

His Art explores the epignosis and exposition of cultures around the globe, other key areas being lifestyle. This very Painting 'In Her Prime' gives a thought to a phase in every woman's life as a young lady, how this stage however managed, sets the tone to what the Universe serves them. He takes extemporaneous approach in his works as he deeply connects to his Spirituality. Herald is based in Lagos, Nigeria.

EFI GEROKONSTANTI IG: @efigerokonstanti My engagement with painting began with my registration in the cultural centers of the Municipality of Athens.

I come from Livadia and I live in Athens since 2005. I studied Philosophy at the University of Patras.

My paintings are characterized mainly by the surreal and expressionist element and always following the modern style of painting.

I have participated so far in 3 exhibitions at a collective level.

GEORGE AGAP IG: @george_agap Passionate about the sea and the human element, always seeking to discover new cultures and exploring new ideas. Grew up in Athens and moved to Milan, Italy for his studies.

Moved to Dubai for a a bit where he completed his practice. After experiencing the city life for the majority of his life, he moved back to his birthplace, in the island of Rhodes. And then, the pandemic started.

The diver is lunging into a sea of changes and new experiences leaving behind his older self and his comfort zone. A transformative event that many people were seeking and experienced during the pandemic.

DONA ASISI IG: @dona.aglaia I live on world views, the mind-body problem, phenomenal women, gender questions and throw all the remains to my imagination.

HAROLD PERRIN IG: @haroldniperr

My work is very influenced by my graphic design background. I studied applied arts in Paris and then moved to London to kickstart a career in design and advertising.

The flow of life rerouted me towards a more technological approach to art while maintaining a very personal aesthet- ic. After a few months of experimenting with creative coding, I found my true vocation in 3D, motion design and VFX. Being very much influenced by abstract and surrealist artists, my current approach explores a world of ambiguous realities, where what you see will be very unique to you.

I am new to the field and this is the first time some of my work is exhibited.

DAVID IAN BICKLEY IG: @davidianbickley

Threads is a monomyth, a personalised journey that the viewer is encouraged to take, through a series of events based on Irish folklore. Through a truly immersive audio visual environment the visitor experiences a direct visceral connection with the conceptual, the ancient symbolic motifs embedded deeply in Irish culture.

David Ian Bickley is an award-winning media artist whose body of work spans the primitive technological of the 1970’s to the digital cutting edge of today. His media work has manifested as television, installation, electronic music and video art.

MOHAMMAD ALI FAMORI IG: @designfam

Mohammad Ali Famori is an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Art Director and Curator with a demonstrated history of working in the fine art industry.

He has pursued his BA in Photography and a master’s degree in Cultural Management, specialised in spearheading exhibitions and creative projects including running the first glitch video art group exhibition in Iran. He has +10 years experience in art directing, graphic design, photography and visual arts, as well as exhibiting his works in 30 international exhibitions including: “The Identity Architecture Exhibition” at Plaza Casanardi Gallery in Venice, Italy and “The Art Box” in Basel, Switzerland and a solo exhibi- tion at Seyhoun Gallery in Tehran,Iran.

AREZOU RAMEZANI IG: @arezouart

Having pursued two masters in Animation, Arezou loves to use different mediums. She believes sharing emotions is essential that’s why she investigates the human's rawest feelings through her art where she conveys an emotion and evokes a feeling to the audience.

In her ink paintings, she gets inspired by music and humans where she expresses herself by drawing figures and portraits through hatched black ink lines that are in juxtaposition of fluid colourful inks. She believes humans go through common experiences and art is the language we all understand and that's why in her art she tries to connect to the deeper layers of inner feelings of the audience and hopes they resonate with them.

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