20TH MAY | Athens Open Art

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INDEX 1. YUJIE LI 2. ALEXIS MAILLARD ANGELOPOULOS 3. MARIE LE MAO 4. NICOLAS ELIA DOLZER 5. PAULA ELLINGER 6. EURYDICE MARIA VENTOURI (MEV) 7. KIVANÇ NALÇA 8. MARIANNA TZORTZI 9. ROMEO MÉNDEZ 10. VERONICA PINTI - VENTOGITANO 11. KATASHA ROSE 12. ERICA ENTROP 13. MEE JEY 14. BRUNO PAVIĆ 15. MICHALRAZ

YUJIE LI IG: @jane__schiele Yujie Li (b. 1998) is an artist based in Guangzhou

， China.

She completed her Bachelor's degree in Chinese painting from The Guangzhou Academy of fine art in 2020, Now,she studying at the royal college of art in 2021 Yujie Li interested in intimacy, social identity and identity perception. She use her experiences and memories, as well as thinking about psychology, to create images. Her projects are created around public bathrooms and people. She inspired by Stephen Reicher's crowed theory. He said that people define themselves by the people around them at the time of the event, thereby reducing their personalized selves.She think people are slowly blurring their perception of being human after losing their social identity in such an environment.

ALEXIS MAILLARD ANGELOPOULOS IG: @alexisolid.15 Alexis Maillard Angelopoulos is an upcoming artist who has been painting from an early age. His mother, a psychologist , taught him about individuality, how everyone is complex and unique. But Alex as he grows up he sees how sometimes people reduce each other, making them into things. And then an idea came, what if people were only one thing? They were only doctors or only drinkers? farmers? rulers? Would they even be human beans? or would they be something monstrous? The Farmer is just something that only tends to the crops? And a Ruler it's just a thing that rules? One has nothing and the other has everything but both are still empty, but they continue to do their work for that's all they know.

MARIE LE MAO IG: @marie_le_mao My personal presentation : Marie is passionate of shades of colors. She learned more about art history and painting thanks to Ateliers des Beaux Arts in Paris and night courses of Ecole du Louvre. She created a Pantone of bright colors of many houses in Sicily. We find bright colors including acrylic paint and oil paint on her artworks. To work color and shadows in a different way, she made sketches in watercolor, ink pen and pastel.

We find it in the selection of the exhibition : women’s bodies.

NICOLAS ELIA DOLZER IG: @nicolasdolzer Nicolas Elias Dolzer is a 21-year-old self-taught professional artist from Vienna, Austria. In his works, he is depicting the rawest forms of humans. He is separating the natural interpretation of thoughts or feelings based on how people act or appear and the raw appearance of a human figure in space. His works are about the way he sees the human figure and how it feels being one

PAULA ELLINGER IG: @paula_ellinger Paula Ellinger - The optical optimist Strong colours, strong contrasts and strong messages mark her way as an artist.

She won`t let herself be bound to a specific artstyle, there are some surreal and abstract elements to her art.

The only thing she wants to be is - FREE. Like art is meant to be.

The optical optimism means to interpret everything - even sad and dark themes - in an colourful optimistical way.

There is a blessing in every tragedy.

EURYDICE MARIA VENTOURI (MEV) IG: @eurydice_maria_ventouri_art Eurydice was born in Piraeus (Greece) where she attended the French Lyceum "Jeanne d'Arc". She studied architecture in Rouen and Paris, graduating from the "Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La Villette (ENSAPLV)" During her stay in France, she was mainly engaged in ink drawings and metal engravings with the techniques "eau forte" and "pointe sèche".

Since returning to Greece, Eurydice has been involved in oil painting on canvas. She regularly participates in exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

Eurydice paintings are an automatic recording of the subconscious. They are made by themselves as the artist typically tells us and just watches them being born, helps and takes care of their structure and aesthetic development. She considers that she lends her hand and works as a midwife, giving life to her painting, thus hoping to create a special result, which could be born through her and only from her.

Most of her works have no narrative. Her work typically features intertwined objects, nevertheless they are not intended to form a narrative. The different objects act as independent creations separate from one another, together forming an abstract landscape. subconscious expresses itself, was built and that the result may not belong to any one art movement exclusively.

KIVANÇ NALÇA IG: @kivanchnalcha Actor and storyteller Kıvanç Nalça, who has performed more than 300 one-man shows in European cities, is known in his country as a novelist, poet and playwright. The beginning of the artistic career of Kıvanç Nalça, who is also one of the leading names in the world in Radio Theater, is painting and sculpture. Kıvanç Nalça has taken part in many exhibitions with his works. Influenced by forest fires in Mediterranean countries during the pandemic period, his abstract expressionist works are exhibited in Greece for the first time.

MARIANNA TZORTZI IG: @mariannaincolours Marianna Tzortzi studied Electrical and Computer Engineering, followed by a second Master in Data Science and Machine Learning. She currently works on European projects focusing on Machine Learning for scheduling Supercomputers. Marianna started painting in childhood and ever since she paints with acrylics. This year is her first public presentation of her works. Besides this exhibition, one of her paintings was chosen to be the cover page of the poem book “Οι καρδιές των ζώων”. For Marianna, the process of painting is a form of expressing feelings and messages to society. She wants her paintings to be with strong emotions and to provoke the thoughts of the spectators. She refers to issues that concern her, such as the position of women in society and refugees.

ROMEO MÉNDEZ IG: @RomeoMendez Mexican visual artist born in the capital city of the state of Chihuahua, known for his work as a painter and muralist.

Romeo has consolidated his own style that is characterized mainly by the use of contrasts between colors in a technique based on figurativeism that sometimes recalls expressionism and pop art, creating a mixture that could be called: contemporary expressionism.

His work can be interpreted as an exercise in exploration of human feelings and imagination. Mostly there is history, reality and background message. Despite lacking localism, everything portrayed in his work happens in spaces and times of this world.

VERONICA PINTI - VENTOGITANO IG: @veronica_pinti SVeronica Pinti is passionate about art in all its forms. She recently focused on painting, representing the impression of distant worlds and the feeling of exotic moments. Gipsy women, horses, sea sunsets, palms and bright colors are recurrent symbols of her sense of freedom and light-heartedness. Landscapes and characters of her artworks are often squared, however surrounded by swirly lines, as an invitation to face a patterned reality with their own creativity.

KATASHA ROSE IG: @katashart SVeronica Pinti is passionate about art in all its forms. She recently focused on painting, representing the impression of distant worlds and the feeling of exotic moments. Gipsy women, horses, sea sunsets, palms and bright colors are recurrent symbols of her sense of freedom and light-heartedness. Landscapes and characters of her artworks are often squared, however surrounded by swirly lines, as an invitation to face a patterned reality with their own creativity.

ERICA ENTROP IG: @eentrop Erica Entrop was born in Roswell, New Mexico and graduated Cum Laude from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque with her BFA. After completing her studies, she began traveling across the United States exhibiting in different locations including Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.

She has had an extensive artistic career having participated in exhibitions across the country and the world. Her works have recently been included in the Premier edition of Blue Bee Magazine. In the past year she has participated in the 13th Havana Biannual and the 25th Romerias Festival showcasing her newest film works in collaboration with her partner, Cuban artist, Darwin Estacio Martinez She lives and works in Havana.

MEE JEY IG: @mee_jey Mee Jey is an Indian multidisciplinary artist based in Missouri, USA. Her creative practice is deeply influenced by the global politics of wall- war- violence, and it's impact on lives of immigrants and future of children around the world.

BRUNO PAVIĆ IG: @bruno.pavic Bruno Pavić was born on March 30, 1988 in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated from the Film and Video department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Split and afterwards took his master`degree at the same Academy – Department of Film, Media Art and Animation.

Together with fiction and documentary films he also deals with video arts. His work has been shown at international film festivals and exhibitions. He is the founder, director and curator of the first Croatian video art festival "Split Videoart Festival".

MICHAL RAZ IG: @michalraz Michal Raz (born Jerusalem) is a London based artist. In 2013 she completed her B.A. at Hamidrasha School of Art and Education in Israel, and her MFA in 2018 at the Slade School of Fine Art London. Her work has been exhibited in Israel, UK, Europe, India and South America.

Layering is the fundamental principle in Michal’s work; providing both its method and its theoretical framework. Layering proceeds by augmenting that which lies beneath, whilst simultaneously erasing it. Thus, a finished work is a series of traces in which one can glimpse vestiges of pop cultural imagery, the austerity of high modernism, gestural painting, and kitsch decoration; each stratum vying for our attention. Such a process relies on construction, destruction, deconstruction and reconstruction as the final state of the image is wrestled from conflicting elements.

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