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INDEX 1. PANAGIOTIS PAPAGIANNAKIS (PANOS) 2. WES ROGERS 3. IOANNA ARGIROPOULOU 4. JRISANT 5. KARAMANLIS MIHALIS 6. VICTORIA POURNARA 7. VERÒNICA FERNÁNDEZ BOIX 8. AZEEZ MURITADOH O 9. DIMA SUHOV 10. DARWIN ESTACIO MARTINEZ
PANAGIOTIS PAPAGIANNAKIS (PANOS) IG: @DrSurrealism Panagiotis Papagiannakis is a surrealist - symbolist painter influenced mainly by Salvador Dali and Boris Vallejo. He got involved with painting from a very young age and he managed to be distinguished in local, national and worldwide contests. After he graduated from Medicine School he received advanced training in oil painting next to Dimitris Efthimiou painter. Panagiotis believes that artists - painters are vessels of divine knowledge and their mission is to visualize this to the public through their paintings.
WES ROGERS IG: @badrogersgr Wes Rogers is a fictional character, “born” in late 2015. He is influenced by nu metal, graffiti, visual arts & bad pun jokes. During his Industrial Design studies in Syros Isl., he polluted the campus’ music stage with his band “Kawaii Sharx”, and he also developed an interest in graphic design & video production. During the pandemic, he created several artistic and musical projects, including music videos, art pieces and YouTube content, under the moniker “Bad Rogers Entertainment”. This is Wes’ first exhibition as a legit artist, and he hopes to get some honest productive feedback about his work, and possibly make some interesting new connections in the art scene.
IOANNA ARGIROPOULOU IG:@art_ioanna_argiropoul Ioanna Argyropoulou was born in Athens in 1979 and grew up in the province city of Trikala. From an early age she had contact with painting, as her mother was an amateur painter. In the first years of painting, she was inspired by ancient Greek mythology, the human figure and geometry. She started her studies in art but her love for painting turned her to other directions. She has given entry exams at the School of Fine Arts of Ioannina. Works mainly with acrylics, pastels and wood paints. She has used various techniques that give more expressiveness to the subject and enrich the composition. She has participated in the group exhibition in the «event hall of the Tsitsani Museum» in Trikala in 2021.
JRISANT IG:@jrisant
Juan Rivas-Santisteban (Jrisant) is a painter born in Andújar, Spain. His work is classified by many as vivid surrealism. Influenced by his work as a scientific researcher, he tries to give form to the existentialist concerns of the modern human being. The use of light and color are his main tools, with which he shapes mostly landscape and dreamlike scenes, with an high simbolic load.
KARAMANLIS MIHALIS I G : @ k a r a m a n l i s _ m i h a l i s Karamanlis Mihalis lives and works as an art teacher in Thessaloniki. Influenced by artists such as Francis Bacon, Egon Schiele and Karel Appel, he paints his nightmares, worries and concerns on paper. Random lines, color, abstract shapes and the human figure are the main elements of the compositions. He has participated in several group exhibitions in the city of Ioannina, where he also studied Fine Arts and in Athens
VICTORIA POURNARA IG: @Victoriapournara
Victoria was born in 1999, the last year before the brink of the millennium which could be the reason why she is an artist influenced by abstract art with a strong passion for expressionism. Although, she creates art with a purpose, she tends to keep her inner thoughts grounded in a quote from Alberto Giacometti, “The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.” As a self-taught artist, she breathes from her inspiration when she laid her eyes upon a paintbrush. As she has grown into adulthood, she has taken on a new love for Michelangelo which can be seen in her latest pieces.
VERÒNICA FERNÁNDEZ BOIX IG: @veronica.fb Verònica Fernández Boix, is a Spanish artist based in Barcelona. Her passion for painting and drawing started from an early age. She gets inspired by fashion and women, exploring them through portraits and the female body. Verònica’s work is characterized by a vibrant color palette and by capturing the fine details. She enjoys using traditional techniques such as watercolor, colored pencils, graphite… But her main medium is acrylic. In this digital era, she loves hand painting, a beautiful way to express and transmit emotions through her vision and style.
The present series “Three months of 2020” has been conceived during the first confinement in 2020. Gouzelle took analogue photographs of empty Paris during 1 hour long walks allowed by the government per day. Pre pandemic, Paris is visited by 30 million tourists per year and in 2020 it looked so lifeless, shut down and Gouzelle felt the urge to “travel” into her inner world to bring emotions, flavours and state of mind during this period when the world was put on hold
AZEEZ MURITADOH O. IG: @lagosboyartworld_
Azeez Muritadoh is a Nigerian black artist, born and raised in Ajiran Agungi lekki Lagos State Nigeria. He excels in the use of modifying geometric and cuvilinear forms. His art reflects his interest in culture, nature and technology. His pallette is innovative and complex. He studied general art in Yaba college of technology Lagos, Nigeria. The artist is skilled in several aristic field, such as creativity, innovation, technology, and entrepreneurship. He juxtaposes elements of reality with abstract, realism and expressionism using paint, charcoal and waste products. In 2015 he got his first teaching job as a fashion illustrator in Tailornimi fashion school lekki Lagos State, he also handles school kids on home teaching on art. Muritadoh's many exhibitions include PlainAir LAGOS, lagos art and fashion gala, Artloveexpo2019, New era@number23.UK. His influenced by the great PABLO PICASSO, who devoted himself to an artistic production that contributed significantly to the whole development of modern art in the 20th century.
DIMA SUHOV IG: @suhovarts13 Abstract artist, born in 1986. Russia- Moscow. The artist is self-taught, works with oil paint and a palette knife. When creating his works, he is not interested in the ratio of color and shape or anything else. He is interested in the expression of basic human emotions: fear, happiness, hatred, ecstasy, grief, separation, love and much more. The expression of these emotions for him is the color and how it is applied to the canvas. For him, color is a means and a tool that can directly affect the soul. All his works are written in an instant, that is, fast enough to accurately reflect on the canvas what he feels and what happens in a certain period of time in which he lives.
DARWIN ESTACIO MARTINEZ IG: @darwinestaciomartinez
Darwin Estacio Martinez was born in 1982, in Manzanillo, Cuba; he is a graduate from the Professional Academy of Fine Arts "El Alba" in Holguin city, and also is a graduate from the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana. He is professor at the National Fine Arts Academy (San Alejandro). He has had an extensive artistic career having participated in exhibitions across Cuba and other countries around the world. Images of his works have been included in several publications and many of his artworks belong to private collections in and outside of the Island. He lives and works in Havana
ATHENS OPEN ART 18TH FEBRUARY