ATHENS OPEN ART 2 2 N D
O C T O B E R
GALLERY
SNEHTA
NODNOL EXHIBITIONS
INDEX
1. ΝΊΚΚΗ 2. JEMIMA MURPHY 3. BRIGIT KOVAX 4. PSYCASSA 5. KIKO CLJ 6. REPAINTING DREAMS 7. ELENI SABANI 8. ANKO 9. THANOS VOZIKIS 10. JUNG EUN LEE 11. PATRICIA RAIN GIANNESCHI 12. HEDVIG KOVÁCS
ΝΊΚΚΗ IG: @nikki_dra
Νίκκη is 17 years old and this is her first exhibited work. In her piece, the display of chaotic
assemblies and clashing colors manifests that fire can be fought with fire. Chaos lives in everything around us and yet it seems to somehow make absolute sense. Just like in math, two negatives make a positive; hence the title.
JEMIMA MURPHY IG: @jemimamurphy_art
Jemima is a painter from the New Forest, England. Born into a large artistic family and inspired by the art around her, she started painting at a young age. Jemima went on to study Russian at the University of Bristol. Inspired by Fauvism, Jemima creates and reimagines nature in vivid scenes with bright colours and dynamic compositions. She paints with the bold and expressive style and palette of the Fauves while also bringing in a distinctly contemporary twist to her work. She aims to capture excitement and dream-like landscape, shifting the focus from the natural to the personal. Her 2021 solo show ‘Wild Things’ at 10 Hanover, London, was a huge success and her work has since been in private collections worldwide.
BRIGIT KOVAX IG: @brigitkovax She is a Hungarian-born painter living and working in London, UK. In 2021 she graduated as an art psychotherapist at University of Roehampton London, after that she had completed her MA degree as painter at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2017. Since then, she has been evolving her art through several phases. Her work displayed is from the series of her playful abstract paintings with circle-like forms which has been inspired by the American Abstract Expressionism, especially by Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt where she was focusing on the theme of connectedness and feelings evoked by relations to people. This theme is still on her focus.
PSYCASSA IG: @psycassa
As a self-taught artist, I started to paint at 18 years after an art-therapy course, where I discovered a free way to express myself outside the standards. Not attracted to realism, my imagination is my main tool to create. I consider my art as an experiment and a process guided by my feelings, my emotions, my visions and the energies of the places and people. That’s why I always improvise with what is here and now. In that way, my art is spiritual. I use acrylic and different mediums, like sprays, Posca, glitters and more. Seeing colours as a self and universal language, I like them bright and intense. I paint on differ- ent artistic media as canvas, walls and bodies. I like to paint in public spaces because I want to share my art, to make it visible and interactive. My bodypainting also follows that line. I participated to art projects in Paris, Milan, New York and recently in Ibiza.
KIKO CLJ IG: @kiko_clj I ́ m an artist based in Spain, living between Madrid, Cantabria & Alicante. After 10 years of experience in different brands and proyects I realised I wanted to show more of myself. Cosmo, my alter ego, arised to tell my story and share my inner me with the world. He represents everything that ́ s in my mind: colors, shapes, and happiness. Traveling, my family, skateboarding and surfing are part of my daily inspiration and they keep me in shape to keep going and keep growing as an artist
REPAINTING DREAMS (BY M. PAPAIOANNOU) IG: @repaintingdreams
My name is Maria Papaioannou (rePainting Dreams) and I'm a self-taught artist from Greece. I mainly use acrylics for my artworks but I've worked with oil paint as well. My love for painting came from my father, a great painter and a great teacher. My art finds itself attached to contemporary, surrealism and impressionism. I'm always trying to evolve by experi- menting with different themes, colours and moods, howev- er my main focus is landscapes and sceneries that bring me calmness and joy. As for my inspiration, I see myself as an extremely visual person. Whether it is a picture on the internet, a walk on a mountain, a stroll at the beach, art keeps making my world go round!
ELENI SABANI IG: @eleni.roxy writer / psychotherapist / artist #txtureadings acrylic, stucco, carbon As a storyteller in all forms, I create and consume language. #txtureadings is a series of perspectives, giving touch to our thoughts. Grooves give the impression of movement through time where everything that once becomes completed, gets empty in an eternal repetition. Ruins of our thoughts, ruins of our action, ruins of our love end up like pieces of timeworn walls narrating values through Arte Povera and Abstract expressionism. Words of old and new poems from my personal works as bodies to be read and seen and heard like any other body in this world. Spread #txtrureadings around.
ANKO IG: @anna.kor.13.8 “Boneshell” Inspired from the shapes of nature this piece is a combina- tion of the marine and land’s life and forms. A sculpture that portraits and blends in shapes of sea shells and bones. Are they though 2 different things in order to combine them? Aren’t sea shells evidence of bones underwater? Anna Korali is student in her final year of architecture at National Technical University of Athens. Her main artistic focus at the point is creating jewellery but she is somebody that likes experimenting and learning from all the art medias available to her. Other creations of hers are projects such as “Igloo”, a real size build from ice and snow and “The room that I live”, an architectural short movie inspired by the renovation and build of her own living space.
THANOS VOZIKIS DOROS POLYDOROU (SUPV.) IG: @__thantan T“In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of the others. In the almost unfathomable Ts’ui Pen, he chooses – simultaneously – all of them. He thus creates various futures, various times which start others that will in their turn branch out and bifurcate in other times. That is the cause of the contradic- tions in the novel.” - “The Garden of Forking Paths”, Jorge Luis Borges. The story follows Dr. Yu Tsun who has a conversation with Stephen Albert, the keeper of the Garden of Forking Paths. Albert starts to talk about Ts’ui Pen, a provincial governor who retired to write a novel and to create a maze in which all men would lose themselves. He says that he has figured out that Ts’ui Pen’s labyrinth was his own novel. He explains that the character of the book chooses simultane- ously all alternatives, in doing so the character creates infinitely various futures -and thus- an invisible labyrinth of time is created.
JUNG EUN LEE IG: @thestoryof_goodtree We always look at flowers and trees, the sky and green fields, and the beautiful nature. And I feel happy and give thanks to God who created all these things. The way we live in this nature is all different. I think that I am lonely because I am alone, and I also think that I am happy with the two of us. There are many stories among the people who come and go. What stories are hidden? Here, we introduce people who can and should meet people who can and should meet themselves and who they want to meet in the hidden story search. A girl who rides a bicycle full of flowers sings that love springs up with fragrance wherever she goes. I also convey the fragrance of love to you who are looking at this painting. Bachelor of Fine Arts Arts and Culture Education Instructors
PATRICIA RAIN GIANNESCHI IG: @patti_rain
As a mullti-media artist using paint, words, and music as a portal for imagination and spirit, I am involved with the process of Becoming and Creating. Secret messages are hidden in the textures and shapes of my work. My desire is to bring the viewer into a space to become open to the forces of imagination and spirit. I believe Art can transform us and take us to a new awareness, create new sensations, and form. For me, the act of painting is an act of spiritual practice. I enter the painting with body and mind, search- ing for the images as I wander through the canvas, or pick up a pen, or my guitar, or sit down and touch the keys on my piano. I am an artist.
HEDVIG KOVÁCS IG: @hedvigkovacs
London based Hungarian visual artist currently doing BA (Hons) Film and Television at University of the Arts London. I work in production design, and I enjoy the process of creating a cohesive and aesthetic world. I am especially interested in creating era-specific, unique visions, and applying colour theory to sets. I am someone who is well immersed in art history and I have a deep appreciation for most art forms and I practice acrylic painting too, I am currently working on a series of paintings focusing on the subject of pop culture. People and their complex emotions endlessly fascinate me and they are my main source of inspiration and the subject of most if not all of my work. I have obtained a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Design for Theatre and Screen at UAL, Camberwell College of Arts in 2018.
ATHENS OPEN ART 22nd October