ATHENS OPEN ART 2 4 T H
J U N E
GALLERY
SNEHTA
NODNOL EXHIBITIONS
INDEX 1. KARMA 2G (TWO GEE) 2. VICTORIA V 3. ELENI STEFANI 4. ALESSIA BAYRO 5. XIMENA BARAONA / CHILEAN VISUAL ARTIST 6. ALEXIS PROVIAS 7. MARTIN MUGNOLO 8. ANNA GIAKOUMAKATOU 9. B. THE CROSSOVER ARTIST 10. BRISCHEL BIMOKO 11. GROTESKOS 12. NIKOLAI LANGGUTH
KARMA 2G (TWO GEE) IG: @karma_two_gee Influenced by hip-hop culture and music, KARMA 2G began in 1997 to develop design experiments on paper and using spray to build his artistic career as a graffiti and street artist so integrated into the hip hop crew (Wsk (walls screw kings) after Anb (art n 'bombing), later Hcw (hate clean walls) and finally in 2G as well as individually. As part of his three-day solo exhibition at the Toss Gallery in La Doze, a selection of his designs on paper is presented, which has recently been enriched with popular Marvel and DC Comics characters. To the artistic approach of KARMA 2G, however, are added a series of larger-scale works the result of individual and collective work with other street artists - which include both letters [lettering] and style, as well as portraits in the form of murals. But how could one approach, and therefore experience, his own works? Works that now exceed 3,000 drawings on paper and 1,500 on walls, as he has mentioned. Answers may be given by his favorite magazines - Stylefile, one of them -, the sounds, the music and the beats that shape his rhythmic movements, his letters and designs, the writers that finally stand out, such as Hoxeone FX , but also the tag itself; a word that, going through multiple time points, renders both the (artistic) act and energy as well as the (artistic) result.
VICTORIA V IG: @victoria_flowart Born in Ukraine and based in Vienna, Austria, Victoria V has incorporated in her art practice influences of Eastern European aesthetics as well as Western approach. Interested in ancient symbols and mythology, she combines intuitive yet expressive manner with contemporary influences, using secret writing and abstract calligraphy, planting Kandinsky’s and Itten’s theories on form and color impact. Victoria’s figurative as well as abstract artworks explore the humans’ social boundaries along with personal ones, engaging concepts of trance, subconsciousness, sexuality, mystics and symbolism; while different media (acrylics, markers, collage, ink etc.) used in her practice allow Victoria to create multidimensional textured original artworks with strong emotional vibes.
ELENI STEFANI IG: @l1rtist Born in Athens, raised in North Evia. Got a BSc. in Chemistry, now she is doing her MSc. in Organic Synthesis. Painting is a hobby for her. Influenced by existing people and real situations - photo without copying – she paints using bright/intense colors: she seeks to create contrasts with them! Each painting hides a message and captures the truth!!
ALESSIA BAYRO IG: @alesbayro Alessia Bayro (1997) is a visual artist whose creative production revolves around hyperrealist figurative painting and analogue photography. Although her pictorial style is figurative, the focus is on the emotional content of the narratives and the creation of suggestive atmospheres. Using colour as a mechanism of exploring, she explores concepts such as duality, ecstasy, eroticism and self-deconstruction. She places the body at the centre of the plastic discourse and investigates the poetry of the nude presented in a contemporary style. Her treatment of the nostalgic character of analogue photography plays with intangible themes such as dream and memory. In this way her photography acquires a language and a postmodernist aesthetic, characterised by a return to abstraction with the fragmentation of the image, it is the result of an experimental creative process, where the material is left to act and react on its own.
XIMENA BARAONA / CHILEAN VISUAL ARTIST IG:@ximenabaraonarte Ximena has a Bachelor of Arts degree in painting from UPLA, Valparaiso, Chile. She has worked in painting for more than 20 years, has created a unique canvas, endemic of her studio where she paints chilean and latin american flora and fauna in oil and acid on woven copper (typical chilean mineral). Also, in her studio, she has done various calligrams that she likes to call “Escribujos” (“written drawings”), which are realistic, made up entirely of words or phrases that highlight the image and viceversa. She has participated in various art shows and has been in art fairs such as ArtexpoNY (2021) and Artweek Chile (2021).
ALEXIS PROVIAS IG: @wherealexatt Alexis Provias is a Greek self taught artist whose passion for art started in 2009. He studies Graphic Design and he is also a tattoo artist.His artworks are all about dealing with emotions and how he sees people and the world generally, his signature is making images out of his own personal experiences but also from people too.“Cohesion” is about to resemble separate images as emotions which can be side by side and instead of chaos create something dynamic. Alexis’s artwork is dedicated to his beloved cat Anemone which sat all the way across him as he created his artwork but she did not made it through the completion of it because of cancer.As he said, you can always make something beautiful and powerful out of a bad situation,it is all about how you will handle it.
MARTIN MUGNOLO IG: @mykonosart Martín Mugnolo (Argentina, 1973) is an artist who fell in love with Mykonos island. His love for the Hellenic world led him to soak up their culture, mythology and stylelife. For him, only surrealism can portray a place like Mykonos. He exhibited his paintings in Mykonos, Rome, Marbella, Barcelona, Malaga, Córdoba, Athens and Buenos Aires. He is also a writer, designer, photographer but above all a traveler. You can see his others art piece in: www.martin-mugnolo.com
ANNA GIAKOUMAKATOU IG: Signifiedandsignifier Anna Giakoumakatou is a nineteen-year-old up-coming artist from Greece. She grew up on Karpathos Island and later moved to Athens, where she went to school. She is studying Visual Arts at Deree, the American College of Greece. She is interested in various art fields, such as painting, theatre, poetry, music, and writing. This exhibition is her first one, and she decided to show the specific works displayed as her first steps and first influences, such as Jackson Pollock and Paul Cézanne. Hopefully, this is one of the many opportunities that will come up in her life. She would like to thank and dedicate this exhibition to her parents.
B. THE CROSSOVER ARTIST IG: @b_thecrossoverartist B. is a young artist from Vienna and started her pseudonymised artist career in 2020. It all started on social media, but in February 2021 her first presentation at a gallery took place and since then numerous exhibitions, projects and even two awards have followed. Her style is characterized by a mixture of different styles, techniques, materials and genres such as pop art, comic, pouring and fineline techniques. The person behind B. originally comes from the field of literature, which is why words and literary references play a large role in her artistic creations - sometimes in the form of text elements and sometimes discreetly in painterly metaphors. As a result, various interpretations become possible, which should encourage the viewer to deal with their own thoughts about the artwork.
BRISCHEL BIMOKO IG: @brischel04 Since his earliest childhood, Brischel Bimoko has always dreamed of creating with his hands. That's why it was easy for him to choose his path. He is an artist who sees the world as an open-air exhibition and where through gouache painting, he describes his vision of what the world gives him to see.
GROTESKOS IG: @groteskos_official Groteskos (b.1988 / Athens) is a self-taught illustrator. His love for Pop Art culture is the reason for most of his artworks. Andy Warhol's and Dave Ortiz's series of Campbell's and Goya soup cans inspired him to begin the project "Yes...We Can", based on Greek products' cans. This is the first part (Vol. 1) of the project, presenting Kyknos cans.
NIKOLAI LANGGUTH IG: @nilangguth Nikolai is a multidisciplinary artist. His work includes sculpture and painting, and explores the intersection between tactile and abstract expressions. Through an experimental approach to re-constructing surfaces, he taps into a grey zone between the twodimensional and three-dimensional sphere. He is mostly self-taught, with some training from Florence Academy of Art and Barcelona Academy of Art. Nikolai is 31 years old (born 1991), and is of Norwegian-German descent.
ATHENS OPEN ART 24TH JUNE