ATHENS OPEN ART 1 9 T H
N O V E M B E R
GALLERY
SNEHTA
NODNOL EXHIBITIONS
INDEX
1. NINA KOUKLAKI 2. ELENUHXX 3. ALEXANDROS REICHENBACH 4. DAVID KANEEN 5. ADRIAN BLAG 6. LUDIANA ELENI THANASI 7. MARIA PITCH 8. MARTA BECHERINI 9. GOLDY 10. THOMAS GKIKAS
NINA KOUKLAKI IG: @ninakouklaki
Nina’s artworks explore concepts around intimacy with the purpose to capture the connection and relationship between her and the person depicted. This way, she intends to reveal her presence. Nina’s paintings aim to challenge how people will handle being viewers of private moments and make them wonder what is going on. However, the viewer could also recall their own intimate moments when seeing hers. Artworks aim to interact with each other and reveal her enjoyment while creating them. These specific showcased artworks depict mostly the awkwardness of a moment by giving more value to the face/look and making visible something that someone would hide. They also bring up everyday, autobiographical moments in order to represent a reality.
ELENUHXX IG: @elenuhxx
Elenuhxx is an aspiring artist from Greece. At the young age of 17 years old, she mainly creates minimal line art and pencil portrait sketches. Inspired by every day life, pictures, feelings, her main goal is to make pieces that resonate with each person on a deeper level whilst showcasing things and experiences through her eyes. Her newest pieces, which are exhibited, are a depiction of her take on platonic, romantic and self love
ALEXANDROS REICHENBACH IG:@alexandros__drawings
Alexandros Reichenbach is a 23 year old drawer/painter from Greece and Germany. He is completely self-taught and has no commercial education in Arts. He started drawing portraits in October 2020 due to a heart illness that tied him to his home for half a year. He became aware of his talent, as he suddenly got nominated for the 4th International Art Biennale 2021 in London after only six months of drawing and painting. As he says, his work is inspired by nothing and at the same time by everything, since anything he sees can be an inspiration. By his words his works are a treasure map leading to the treasure of a story, the viewer must find by himself.
DAVID KANEEN IG: @davidkaneen
David Kaneen is from Australia and has been residing in Greece for around 20 years. He has a degree in Fine Art and has been an avid artist since he was a young boy and to this day will always be a passion. David has had solo exhibitions in Greece and Australia, including winning a first prize in a contemporary art prize with the Victorian Artist's Society of which he is an ongoing member. His works cover a variety of themes, some dark and reflective of life but, mostly landscapes which are indicative of his love for beauty in the natural world.
ADRIAN BLAG IG: @adrian.blag Adrian Blag is a Romanian artist, born in the city of Cluj-Napoca, currently living, for the past five years, on the island of Zakynthos. In his adolescent years he was influenced by Romanian painters such as Radu Comsa, Victor Man and Adrian Ghenie. He didn't pursue an art career until later in his life because he didn't feel adequate with not having proper art training, but in 2016 after some personal events, he decided to learn and develop on his own. He has been diligent at developing his artistic toolbox for the last years, while also freeing his mind of concepts and finding his inner voice. These two paintings are some of his first attempts at creating for himself and enjoying the process.
LUDIANA ELENI THANASI IG:@eleni_thanasi
She was born in Albania in 1988. At the age of 9 she comes to Greece with her parents and siblings. From a young age she liked to make portraits mainly with pencil, to write and read. He went to the Nursing Department in Patras and after a year he returned to Athens where he started classes in a theatrical workshop. In 2013 he started attending the drama school ‘’Πράξη 7’’ and graduated in 2016. She takes part in some theatrical performances. This year she started painting with color for the first time and has become her new love. It is inspired by the expression of emotions and love. She has weakness in her siblings, in her partner and her two four-legged children.
MARIA PITCH IG: @maria.pitch
MARIA PITCH is a landscape painter. There is a lot of nature and travel in her work. This is exactly what inspires her and gives energy. She wants to remember the moment - feelings, movement, sounds and atmosphere of the moment. She graduated from Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry and Kosygin Russian State University. Maria Pitch has a personal exhibition in Moscow and she took part in Russian Art Week, Art geography of Russia etc.
MARTA BECHERINI IG: @jin__sabu Marta Becherini is an art historian who is trying to reinvent herself as an artist. She is interested in experimenting with various media and techniques, but is particularly attracted to watercolours, egg tempera, and clay. Marta draws her inspiration from anything under the sun that captures her eyes, whether due to its particular arrangement of shapes and colours or to the memories it evokes, or else to the possibilities it may suggest. In a world where engagement with raw materials is increasingly undermined by ever expanding technologies, she relies on traditional art making techniques to keep grounded and learn to appreciate the limitations and potentials inherent in each medium. The works she presents in this exhibition are part of a larger series of watercolors inspired by Marta’s encounter with Tenerife during the past lockdown.”
GOLDY IG: @goldy_art31
Goldy is a self taught artist. She has studied fashion design at the Aristotelian university of Thessaloniki. Her artworks are made for healing and therapeutic energy ( art therapy-color therapy ), She considers that art is a foundation for spiritual growth. Goldy gets inspired from people's eyes, spiritual conversations, nature's energy and colors, also sometimes from meditation oracles. Personal exhibitions: "Go In Sane" HOXTON Gazi Athens 2012 "Flow" Urban Dance Society Argyroupoli Athens Group exhibition Hip-hop Smile Festival 2016+2017
THOMAS GKIKAS IG: @_body_without_organs_
Thomas Gkikas studied Architecture at the University of Patras (2020). He has participated in architecture and art workshops, as well as in many competitions during his academic years. His works have been exhibited in Agora Argiri in Patras (2016) and at The Benaki Museum in Athens (2017). His Research Thesis (2019) and Diploma Thesis (2020) have been published in architecture magazines. Urban Interior 1, 2 & 3 are part of Inland of Megalopolis: Olive Grove’s Fruit a work in collaboration with Christos Voutsas.
ATHENS OPEN ART 19th November