25th February | Athens Open Art

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NODNOL EXHIBITIONS

INDEX 1. AKINOLA TAOHEED 2. EVA NIKOLOU 3. HANNAH SKINNER 4. SMARO TACHMATZIDOU (SMARO SALIV) 5. ERRATIC MIND (ALLOPROSALOS_NOUS) 6. EVA DANIIL 7. TETIANA PAVLOVSKA 8. KAROLINA KOBLEN 9. TIMON I. L. SCHROFNER 10. CHRISTINA GOUNAROPOULOU 11. FELIX ZIEGLER 12. AGGELIKI PANTOU 13. ANDREA GEORGES BARAKAT 14. HARIS PSYRRIS 15. XRISAMILTS 16. MIKE OIKONOMOU 17. LUCY HUNG

AKINOLA TAOHEED IG: @akinolastudio (born in 2000, Lagos) his a contemporary Nigerian artist (Painter) who specializes in Painting. He creates pieces of Artworks with different kind of medium like Charcoal, Pastel, and Acrylic sometimes mix all the medium together to create a work of art. His works speaks about humanity, which you can solely relate with through the eyes. He believes "Everything about humanity speaks through the Eye".

Akinola Taoheed has been practicing Art since childhood. He underwent training under Odeyemi Oluwaseun Ezekiel and Aragbada Steven Olayinka in 2013/ 2014 to enhance his skills.

He then registered for a Training program at the Universal Studios of Art (year 2020/2021 Under Abiodun Olaku and Salako Olajide Peter, and has considers art a hobby a potential Profession. His works are widely recognized and appreciated.

However, He decided to further his Art career (2021) by studying Art Education in one of the best tertiary school in his country "University of Nigeria 'NSUKKA'.

He had participated in three group exhibition; One Virtual international group Exhibition sponsored by Vivid Exclusive Gallery and two other physical group exhibition

EVA NIKOLOU IG: @evanikartwork

Eva is a young contemporary painter currently based in Athens. She experiments with all kinds of materials and techniques and even though she is self-taught she has already exhibited her work in London.

In these pieces, she plays with people and animal figures and explores the connections between their instincts and minds. The combinations she creates lead to different, not obvious, interpretations for each one, which, still, create a common sense of harmony.

HANNAH SKINNER IG:@ _hannah_skinner_.

Skinner Is a British artist that recently took part in a 6 month artist residency in Berlin with Urban Nation Museum where she created the work ‘Organza Hands’. The embroidery that runs the length of the work was inspired by interviews with LGBTQA+ people about self presentation. The subject of her residency was how queer people express their gender and sexual identity through dress, accessories and persona.

Skinners second work, ‘Plus Sized Dream’ was created from a life drawing class called Fat Life Drawing. This work draws inspiration from Klimt and Chagall but highlights a strong feminine body unshaded by a male presence. The work was made using machine embroidery which is a laborious process but yields highly texturised results.

SMARO TACHMATZIDOU (SMARO SALIV) smarotachm@gmail.com Smaro Tachmatzidou has graduated from faculty of Fine Arts, School of Visual and Applied arts of Aristotle University, continued with MSc on Strategic product Design at International Hellenic University and currently she studies Design Architecture, also at International Hellenic University.

Her major in painting focuses on figurative and portraiture subjects, in order to express mental and emotional conditions as directly as possible. Adopting both realism and formalism she tries to depict the sense of an in-between state among two random inversely related states, either between 1 and 0 or like Schrödinger’s cat’s state, between life and death.

ERRATIC MIND (ALLOPROSALOS_NOUS) IG: @alloprosallos_nous Ηis name is Panagiotis and he is a graduate of architecture. The Erratic miND is his artistic

name but also, to a certain extent, reflects the logic behind his art. Digital design, photography and cinematography are his main means of expression. Drawing and photography are the way of capturing his own perspective and reality. His first aim is the expression itself and not the means of it. Τhe trilogy of digital drawings on a frame, that presents in this exhibition, has as features

the intense forms, combined with intense colors and the illusion of movement. Through them, he seeks to present to each viewer his trial truth and emotions, from the aesthetically pleasing and joyful to the provocative and insecurity.

EVA DANIIL IG: @eva.daniil

Eva Daniil (1997) is a digital artist based in Thessaloniki, Greece. Her artworks have been influenced mainly by cartoons and modern art. She has a BA of Department of History and Archeology of the University of Ioannina and she studies graphic design at AKTO in Thessaloniki. In recent years Eva has created posters and invitations for various events. In 2018 she took part in the group exhibition "Glika kai glikakia gallika" that took place at Thessaloniki's International Book Fair 2018. Today Eva collaborates as a set designer with the puppet theater "Redicolo". Last November she held her first solo exhibition at the "Stretto caffe bar" in Thessaloniki.

TETIANA PAVLOVSKA IG: @pavlovska_t_.

Tetiana Pavlovska is a self-taught figurative and landscape painter. She is drawing since her childhood, however her main specialty is organic chemistry, which is also art by its nature.

She's currently doing her postdoctoral studies in Prague, Czech Republic. This magical city inspired her to start painting again after long period of time. She uses acrylic paints, grafics and aquarelles. The last ones became her favorite medium to work with. This show will be her first exhibition. While painting portraits, mostly women's, she longs to catching the feelings and emotions on their faces. She's inspired by works of Ergon Schiele, Claude Monet, Johannes Vermeer.

KAROLINA KOBLEN IG: @kkartstuff Karolina Koblen is a Czech painter, photographer and a retired photomodel.

Ever since she studied Visual Culture in Pilsen, Karolina's biggest artistic idol was Andy Warhol, but more in a spirit animal sense rather than as an artistic influence.

Her paintings and photographs have been shown at many solo or group exhibitions.

Her introspective work speaks mostly of the author's own insecurities, frustrations and unsharp memories.

Karolina will perhaps never finish the journey into her inner self, however she will continue in her artistic endeavour, describing her innermost vibrant and moody facets.

The usage of contrasting dark shades with signal colours sets a scene of vigilance for the spectator, submerging them into an intimate and silent conversation.

TIMON I. L. SCHROFNER IG: @timonschrofner

Timon Schrofner is an austrian painter and law student suffering from severe depression, anxiety and OCD. Paradoxically, his depression is what he is most driven by as an artist.

Using his creative process as therapy, it is of great importance to Timon to convey his suffering and intense emotions with his work.

As a self-taught artist, most of his time and effort not spent on painting itself goes into practicing the craft and studying creations by his favorite artits. These include especially Francis Bacon, Salavdor Dalí and Rudolf Hausner.

CHRISTINA GOUNAROPOULOU IG: @christinas.paintings

Christina Gunaropoulou is 18 years old self-taught painter . Within a year,she has managed to make 7 group exhibitions in Mykonos in Paro and Athens. She loves nature and most of her works are landscapes.She started painting in acrylic colors two years ago and she’s fallen in love with this technique. She describes us her little room that creates all her works as "My magic world" as she lets herself out and enchants us with her works

FELIX ZIEGLER IG: @tsarart_vienna_ Felix used to draw cartoons since his childhood, thx to Covid, he started to draw paintings and got to know different techniques which are now seen on his canvases and digital art.

Pop-Art, cartoon, inked paintings are his prefered styles.

AGGELIKI PANTOU IG: @aggelikiscreations Aggeliki Pantou is an artist born in 1995 in Greece where she lives to this day. She discovered her inclination in painting from a young age. She has attended seminars and classes in sketching and painting at "School of Fine Arts Ornerakis" and at the "School of Arts To Spirto". She prefers to create surreal artworks with a slightly dark touch, to make them she uses pencils, pens, and acrylic colors.

ANDREA GEORGES BARAKAT IG: @drea.barakat I am a 21 years old artist from Lebanon. I came to Athens, Greece to discover who I am and to let out parts of me that I have been suppressing for a long time. Those parts were mainly related to creativity so this is why I decided to study Graphic Design. I like to keep an eye on new art trends and visually pleasing photos to gain inspiration. I like all forms of art, and I'm a visual person. The perfect day for me would be spent at an art gallery / exhibit or museum

HARIS PSYRRIS harispsyrris@gmail.com

for the coquelicot mendiant: The pain and the patience of an old woman who tries to escape from a surealistic enviroment but for the moment she is wiating to find the power and the greatest time to make the change.

This painting combines cubism with digital modern art and the yellow old fashioned color creates a great contrast with the radical mesage.I could say that tis piece of art has a similar style with the paintings of the french artist Fernand Leger. the cubbisions: the beautiful chaos. Five completely differant personalities are forced to leave together in a small place. With a first glance, there is a weird confusion but after a few minutes you will receive their calm and their cerenity witch is their common element. they could be totally different but their little imperfections make them more special and unique.

XRISAMILTS xrisamilts@gmail.com

Xrisamilts is an amateur artist, inspired from ancient Greece,expressing urban thoughts and concerning about modern social problems

MIKE OIKONOMOU IG: @mikeoikonomoucom

Mike's artistic creations are pieces of earth and their embracement with the sea or fire.

During his divings, he extracts different discoveries from the ocean bottom. And just by looking at them, he gets inspired to create their compositions such as human forms, unique lightings, and other syntheses. Also, the artist's daily life and experiences drove him to create the series of wall clocks named ''The Kiss". Mike likes to experiment with different materials such as metal, terracotta, acrylic colors, and a variety of natural pieces such as African wood and stones. His creations are an effort to harness fire, at times successfully at others not...

LUCY HUNG IG: @lucy.illustrator

Warm you and me Slow down when you feel sad, do not need to be good very soon, but remember I am here with you, you are not alone, light will back to you someday, before that be brave and embraced yourself as you can.

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