25th March | Athens Open Art

ATHENS OPEN ART 2 5 T H

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NODNOL EXHIBITIONS

INDEX 1. ISABELLA FÜRST 2. YI 3. JUDIT PRIETO 4. ANDREIA ROCHA 5. ELPIFOS [ ΈΛΠΙΦΟΣ ] 6. MARIX 7. VASILIS SJÖGREN TZANETOPOULOS 8. JEAN BILLY BOB 9. INES KAUFMANN 10. OLENA HORHOL 11. E.R.I 12. NEDA

ISABELLA FÜRST IG: @fuerst_isabella Isabella Fürst's training as a graphic designer gave her an early sense of composition and design. Studying at New Design University introduced her to materials, taught her craft techniques, and gave her an understanding of what it means to be a designer. She finds her inspiration in nature as well as through different materials. Besides the handcraft work, she also enjoys illustrating and painting.

YI IG: @yixiongm Yi considers minimalism boring, and instead of using minimalist lines and bright blocks of color to express the beauty of a painting, he invokes a lot of natural language, such as fog, clouds, trees, mountains, rivers and lakes. He makes anything seemingly unrelated in the painting connect through a mysterious atmosphere. At the same time, he destroys all forms in the painting to create an anti-minimalist aesthetic, no line is straight and no block of color is evident. He wants to fill the painting with an alternative aesthetic by using blocks of color and constantly changing lines.

JUDIT PRIETO IG: @judit_prieto_art Judit Prieto is an artist from Barcelona based in London. She is a graduate of Interior Design that changed her path and followed her true passion, art. She has exhibited since 2014 in several selected group exhibitions in the UK and Internationally. Last year she was selected for: The 41th Mini Print International of Cadaqués (Spain), the Gallery Cinco33 Espacio, Bogotá, (Colombia) and Woolwich Contemporary Print Art Fair, London.

Judit's artworks explore her own vision and connection with nature. These are part of the Series Fields of the World. They stemmed from her personal feelings and cultural connections with the land. The inspiration to create this series of prints are based on the Earth element that came from an in-depth research and observation of the fields in all the Continents in the World. She selected different combinations of colours and textures to represent in abstract form each Continent. She combines monotype with linocut techniques.

ANDREIA ROCHA IG: @andreia.sofia.illustration Andreia Rocha, a Portuguese artist based in Vienna, with a background in molecular biology and scientific research, began combining her passion for science and art a few years ago. Her background enables her to bring to life a distinctive perception on the wonders of basic science.

Her work demonstrates a collision of in-depth scientific knowledge and love for art, allowing for creations representing a unique perspective and interpretation of complex and abstract concepts.

ELPIFOS [ ΈΛΠΙΦΟΣ ] elpifos@gmail.com Elpifos was born on 4th of February 1980.

Originally he began Construction Design studies, but after the encouragement of Proffesor Christina Dalla, he decided to follow the art of painting.

At 18 years old he discovered his INSPIRATION, that guided him through PEACEFUL EXPRESSION of STYLE WITH AUTOMATION....

The necessary conditions for his personal discovery were: traveling, friends and the artistic family that surrounded him.

Starting from 1998 until today Elpifos constructs his personal SYMBOLS and allows himself to observe the infinity and translate it into art* He believes art is an inseparable part of one’s spiritual path!!!

"One little stone in the memory field of the world….”

Elpifos creates in his atelier in Corfu island(Greece/Hellas)

▪︎2 group exhibitions ▪︎8 personal exhibitions ▪︎1st Award of the EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF ARTISTIC LITERATURES AND SCIENTISTS 2011.

MARIX IG: @marix_a_c mariX is a self-taught Spanish (Madrid) abstract painter. Her art helps mariX to deal with her anxiety and, in recent years, abstract painting has been a kind of renaissance for her.

She has exhibited most recently at Kunsthaus Rozig virtual Gallery (Los Angeles-California) and, from April to June, she will be showing at several Councils in Madrid Region. mariX is influenced by European Informalism and American Abstract Expressionism and other more recent artists such as Luis Gordillo (Spain), Tomory Dodge (USA) or Soledad Sevilla (Spain).

She mainly uses acrylic and spray painting and other mixed media such as: sand, newspaper or cord. mariX plays with a wide variety of styles, none of their pieces are the same.

VASILIS SJÖGREN TZANETOPOULOS IG: @vasilis_tzanetopoulos "I was born in 1989 in Athens, splitting my childhood between Athens and Gällivare, Northern Sweden. 2012 -2014 I studied painting at Gothenburg's School of Art. The years after I took my bachelor’s and master’s in Fine Art at The Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm 2014-2019.

I always had a certain wonder for fairy tales, personal legends, and mythology. The great emphasis on the untruthfulness behind all those stories, the subjective impact, and how most stories are made ”extra spicy” by the tellers. As a small child, I was embraced by two separate worlds and participated in so many stories that are incredibly different from each other. In my art I recreate these environments with a simplistic-naivistic approach to scale down the facts and emphasize the feelings of the scenery or the particular memory.

JEAN BILLY BOB IG: @jean_billy_b Jean Billy Bob is a french architect and illustrator based in Aegina Island since 2019. His work resides in order, symmetry and harmony. Representation of mystical and abstract symbols, mix of bodies in flat colors, his vision of art tends to be part of the "post-graffiti" and "tape artists" movement.

INES KAUFMANN IG: @studio_ineskaufmann Ines Kaufmann was born in 1996 in Austria.

Currently she lives and works in Vienna.

She studies at the Academy of the Fine Arts of Daniel Richter.

Exhibitions in London, Berlin, St.Petersburg, Barcelona, Athen, Sofia, Rom, Dresden, Kazan and Austria.

Her works define compositions between self-discovery and eroticism, feminist art and body language, dirtyness and pureness. The femme fatale of the modern Zeitgeist, as well as the exploration of the self becomes the subject of the artists work. Her own sexuality and desires are staged by the dominance of abstract nudity.

OLENA HORHOL IG: @olena.horhol Olena Horhol was born in 1994 in Ukraine. In 2011-2015 studied at Lviv National Academy of Art in the textile department. Her compositions are "woven" in a very clean rough texture which Is perhaps the most characteristic feature about Olena's paintings. Her minimalistic and synthetic works certainly belong to the circle of contemporary landscape paintings.

Olena took part in many international plein-airs and group exhibitions. Also took part in creating the first fully-painted animated movie “Loving Vincent” (2016). Her works are featured in many private collections across Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Hungary and Netherlands. Artist is currently situated in Wroclaw, Poland.

E.R.I IG: @eri_artwork Endrey Rodríguez Iglesias is a 24-year-old multi-style artist based in Spain, originally from Caracas, Venezuela. Inspired by her mother’s paintings, she embarked on her art Odyssey at a very young age, starting to attend art school at the age of eight. Endrey starts signing her paintings with the acronym E.R.I. that stands for her initials.

As time passed, a deep fascination about modern artists such as Picasso and Pollock sparked in her, which introduced her to a whole new abstract world. Through abstract art, she achieves to connect with her inner self in order to create something that nobody ever before has created, unique and unrepeatable pieces of art where the purest expression of her personality can be found.

NEDA POPOVSKA-KAMNAR IG: @some.kind.of.art Neda, is just someone who loves to draw. The thoughts, the smile and tears can be found along with the lines and shapes in these drawings. They are not art by definition, but more art from the heart!

ATHENS OPEN ART 25TH MARCH