Athens Open Art | 2nd July 2021

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CAMILA MAIA SOFIA DALAMAGKA ADEL FARES ANĐELA TUCAKOVIĆ MARIA SANTA AIDA SERANAJ ELIZA MATICA SOFIA PYRROU WANNA B A KIDDO OLATUNJI B. DAMILAR DIMITRIOS KARANIKAS

CAMILA MAIA @conceptualboredom

Conceptual Boredom is a photography project that explores our connection with our homes, our things, our food, and our bored minds during lockdown. The initiative raised funds for the NHS Charities Together, supporting the health and well-being of front-line workers that don’t get to be bored during a crisis. Conceived and developed by the creative team Camila Gurgel and Ieva Paulina, the project was featured on several websites like Ad Week, Campaign, and in a 4 pages article on the Campaign July issue magazine. In the images, designed to be both relatable and abstract, the creative duo used everyday objects to create conceptual visuals and add humour to situations we all went through.

SOFIA DALAMAGKA @sofia_dalamagka

Shame was born one late afternoon in January, 3,maybe 4 years ago, in a room of a hotel in Budapest .For a long time it didn’t have any shape, even if its presence was there...

The following pictures, are part of my own confessions, like a mirror which reflects fear, desire, phantasies, nightmares, memories...Nothing else...

Every picture was a role-play, a real or imaginary person, a painful procedure which i had to imprint-reflect without knowing if i managed to show the war taking place inside us living in a fake, made out of paper, world, where morality and discrimination are at war with the perfection of a modern, neurotic woman who must hysterically accept and faithfully follow flawless beauty and filters on Instagram and social media…

ADEL FARES @ adellfares

Adel Fares has graduated with a master's degree in painting from the University of Arts in Belgrade. He comes from a multicultural family in which he observed two different traditions and cultures, the Balkans and North Africa. From that experience, he realized that he cannot classify myself as a member of one culture or another when he possess knowledge of both. Adel's work is based on exploring traditions and different cultures, in the search of the source which connects all mankind.

ANĐELA TUCAKOVIĆ @andelaart

Anđela Tucaković is an emerging artist based in Croatia. She has a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts and has exhibited her art on a variety of group and solo exhibitions both locally and internationally since 2013.

Her paintings are a response to obscure metaphysical fantasies that lurk in her imagination.

Each of her paintings withholds a rich hectic narrative entity that is discovered through contemplation and careful observation. She relies on going through the remains that are often overlooked. She believes that the so-called reality is just a distorted effigy that prevents our minds from seeing the truth. Immersing yourself in the extreme deep sea of imagination has become inevitable and it somehow gives more answers than expected

MARIA SANTA @Mariloosanta

I have a degree in Italian literature. I have worked in the advertising field for several years. I read a lot and I write short stories and children fairy tales, with my own sketches. I also write articles about painting and art and I collaborate with two social media art pages. I have drawn two covers, one for a greek novel and one for a poetry collection. I am a selftaught painter. My favorites mediums are graphite pencil and acrylic on canvas.

AIDA SERANAJ @aidaseranaj

I'm from Tirana Albania, I live in Crete Greece.

I studied 4 years drawing/ painting/scenography. /2 years Byzantine hagiography (In Tirana Albania)

ELIZA MATICA madalin.matica@gmail.com

I am against painting that is based only on observation and theory, painting as if done by robot, painting that has the safety net of theories in painting.

I want to explain what and how I paint, I will define it as a relationship between a mode of observation (internal and external) and a way of expressing it. This is the answer for which some works need to express the idea of figurative, others go to abstract or symbols and each one needs a different way to be realized.

I do not paint a landscape, idea, theme, in an established pictorial way, I do not follow the theories and clearly established criteria. Depending on the psychological state of what I want to express, then I use one of many modes of expression in painting.

SOFIA PYRROU @sofia_pyrrou_sopart

My name is Sofia Pyrrou, im 45 years old and im selftought in painting, since i remember myself i loved drawing,painting and in general creating. The recent 6-7 years of my life with the encouragement of my husband i decided to leave my job and start selling my paintings! since then i do a lot of stuff but mostly i paint and i learn. I love abstract, its my way of expression , but i love to try different techniques(palette knife, bare hands, water and everything comes in my mind!) by this way i improve my art and traveling more in my creation. I like painting on canvases and wood and use mixed texture too. I have participated in team exhibitions but also in my solo ones. I have done a serries of collection of my art, like Symphony collection, mist collection, almyra collection and my new one, Aqua collection. Most of my paintings have embossed texture.

WANNA B A KIDDO @wanna_b_a_kiddo

Born in U.K London.

Moved to Greece to run on the beach and chase the sun.

Through my art I am spreading love,kindness and positivity.

An explosion of colours on a dancing canvas is my thing.

OLATUNJI BENJAMIN DAMILAR @olatunjibenn

OLATUNJI BENJAMIN DAMILARE is a Nigerian contemporary painter and a mixed media Artist. He was born in Lagos where he grew up and followed his passion for Art. He was trained as a painter in the school of art Yaba college of technology Lagos before he started his exploration research.

DIMITRIOS KARANIKAS @terone_dk

Born in Karpenisi Greece in 1979. It was at the very young age when he realised his talent and love for art and so he followed art lesson with great artists of the time .slowly he created a passion for comics and street art, where he collaborated with street artists and came to stand out in Greek competitions. He later on , came to study illustration and graphic design and participated in several exhibitions. Nowadays he is focusing on the art of paper (papercrafting) with paper cutting technique. his studio based in ATHENS GREECE.

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