ATHENS OPEN ART 2 8 T H
J A N U A R Y
GALLERY
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NODNOL EXHIBITIONS
INDEX 1. CHRISTOS HADJICHRISTOFI 2. URBAN LITTLE PLANETS (BY VASILIKI POUSKOULA) 3. SOPHIE IAKOVIDI 4. ANA GOLOVIC 5. SOFIA EFREMENKO 6. CONTE ZAN 7. ELENI ISCHAKI 8. BAKENEKO KLUB 9. REDA M. 10. DAVID SACKS
CHRISTOS HADJICHRISTOFI IG: artedichristo
Christos Hadjichristofi is a Cypriot artist who is currently studying at the second year at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In his bold works, he expresses his personal experiences and theories. The appeared artwork represents his current research witch concerns symbolism of colour, tones, shapes.
URBAN LITTLE PLANETS (BY VASILIKI POUSKOULA) IG: @urban.little.planets Vasiliki was born in Thessaloniki in ’86 and raised in Giannitsa. She holds a BA degree in Balkan Studies and a MA in Management. She started painting only as an adult. Living under tight timelines and modern’s life pressure, painting in the nights became her way out and psychotherapy. She experiments with different means but the one she uses the most is watercolor. Urban Little Planets is a life project, a diary that concerns to the people of the modern society, their desires and suffering, their loneliness and sadness. It relates to the real life and at the same time to a parallel imaginary world. It concerns to the building’s windows and to the stories well hidden in our rooms.
SOPHIE IAKOVIDI IG: @soph_ikv
@pastelightart
Sophie Iakovidi is a contemporary visual artist with an educational background in visual arts, hospitality, and marketing management. She speaks 5 languages. She has gained work experience in retail, hospitality, marketing, and these days she is working in the exhibition industry. Due to her dual citizenship, Greek on her father's side and Austrian on her mother's side, she has grown up between two cultures. Sophie is a lover of animals and art. In her free time, she likes to paint, visit cultural events, and travel to various destinations. Her favorite artists are the Viennese modernists, such as Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. These works have been inspired by various contemporary artists and have been created during different years.
ANA GOLOVIC IG: @anagolovic
The body of a woman in the work of Ana Golovic is a body that is alienated, detained, isolated. The phenomenon of social distance and isolation she has treated wittily long before the coronavirus pandemic. Given this context as our collective experience, observing her artwork draws our attention to the problem of the lonely man of the 21st century, as a paradigmatic way of life. In a series of paintings of her “Dictionary of Fear,” loneliness becomes disturbing and ubiquitous until it finally abolishes the human body that speaks of it, and leaves the space desolate, filled with a trace of a past presence, thus becoming a space of fear that cannot be abolished.
SOFIA EFREMENKO IG: @sofia_efremenko_official Sofia Efremenko is a painter born in 1999 St. Petersburg, Russia and is currently based in Berlin, Germany on her way to graduate from Weißensee Kunsthochschule with a degree in Fine Arts. Consisting predominantly of paintings and drawings, Sofia’s oeuvre covers a broad spectrum of topics, from loudly political and public-oriented to very personal and private. She strives to build a bridge between herself and the audience to create a dialogue around the understanding of how our emotions work and how our world views are formed. Being a young artist, one could say that her works are still in the “searching” stage but have already gained some recognition by being exhibited both nationally and internationally.
CONTE ZAN IG:@kontizasdimitrios
Conte Zan studied Technology of Graphic Arts and Design in the University of Western Attica, Athens. He has more than 19 years of work experience in graphic design, screen printing, desktop publishing, painting and photography.
ELENI ISCHAKI IG: @eischak
Eleni Ischaki (b. 1975) is a Pulmonologist – Intensivist, working in ICU department of Evaggelismos Hospital in Athens, Greece. She is also a painter and writer/illustrator of children’s fairytales. She has participated in 3 group exhibitions as well as in the online exhibition of EMST named “Actions of health”. Her work has been included in the 5 th volume of “60 contemporary Greek’s artists”. Lately, she is working with acrylics, on her personal exhibition inspired by the connection between man and nature. She believes that the art of painting must be characterized by truth. The truth of each artist, as long as he can see inside himself and capture what he really sees and not what the rest people wants to see. For this to happen he must practice this truth in his life too and only then all his creations will reflect his personality.
BAKENEKO KLUB IG:@bakeneko.klub 'I want to go on living even after death.” Kung Fu jacket with dying flower and growing flower embroidery. BAKENEKO KLUB is embroidery artist based in Berlin. She makes embroidery work of animal, wild life and mythical creature.
REDA M. IG:@redaoconnor @easy.targets “It’s so funny to see, how if you don’t show it, it can be erased.
This series was born to reclaim spaces of representation in the wake of anti-LGBTQIA+ laws across Europe. - « If deprived of alternatives to porn, then we, as a community, only exist as promiscuous societal ‘degenerates’ within visual collective memory. » Reda M. is a London based POC artist & menswear designer, his work - as any world interaction - is political. From ‘Easy Targets’ (2015) manifesto menswear collection, tribute to the Euromaïdan activists, to ‘Dakar Fashion Trip’ (2017) photographic pamphlet advocating for diversity within fashion imagery, the news feed is his creative impulse. Fashion & Art share this visual memory quality, retaining choices of representation influenced by contemporary concerns. - « As creatives, whose role is it to challenge them if not ours? We illustrate the retroactive study of our time; we make History. »
DAVID SACKS IG:@davidsacksdavid David Sacks is a South African (1986) self-taught artist and virologist living in England. Sacks works with an alternative darkroom method called chemigram. These are made on photographic paper with darkroom chemicals, without film or an enlarger. Different hues, forms and textures are produced as these chemicals are brushed, dripped or splashed onto the paper. Through the use of resists (such as varnish), the action of the chemicals can be controlled, allowing intricate patterns and compositions to develop. Deeply influenced by classical art, Sacks also produces master copies of Greek and Roman statues. The chemigrams on display here, printed with archival materials, are the result of his synthesis of experimental darkroom methods and Classical Realism.
ATHENS OPEN ART 28TH JANUARY