Athens Open Art | 3rd December

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INDEX

1. NATASA MESKOU 2. DEPPY TSAPROUNI 3. TOULOUSE 4. KATE ESPINOZA 5. ILIANA SKOULAXINOU 6. MOYINKOLA 7. PAPAGEORGIOU SAVVAS 8. GIUDITTA R 9. NOONOO PAPAGEORGIOU 10. ALEXIS MAILLARD 11. ABENA OYIWAA 12. MONICA CONTENTI 13. KELANI FATAI

NATASA MESKOU

IG: @me.natasa Natasa Meskou is an Athens-based artist experiments with oil painting and sketching.Her work constantly explores figures and people in an abstract form. Being a self-taught artist, Natasa expresses her creativity through her exposure to various different influences, especially she is influenced from contemporary and pop art.

DEPPY TSAPROUNI IG: @deeeppy_

Deppy is a 21-year-old aspiring artist. She is currently doing her bachelor’s in teaching. This collage-painting is the first exhibition of her artwork. What drives her to do art is people’s especially women’s- experiences. If you ask her, she’ll tell you she doesn’t have a specific inspiration, she just loves mixing bright colors and happens to find most controversial and imperfect things around her heartbreakingly beautiful.

TOULOUSE

IG: @konstantinoskakolyris

Toulouse is an up-and-coming painter who started painting on canvas in December 2020.

He is self-taught and has influences from the wave of expressionism.

Through his work, he wants to make the viewer derive his own meaning from his art rather than explain to him exactly what it means, simply because his work is complex.

He is inspired by his daily routine, his experiences and mainly his emotions. Through art he tries to explore his mind and his psychic world.

KATE ESPINOZA IG: @thediarywithin

My name is Kate Espinoza and I live in Paris, France. In late 2020, I started making "outsider art" as a joke. I wanted to see if I could sell my pieces at extravagant prices, despite my lack of technique and qualifications. But then I realized that this was never a joke. Every brush of paint was a relief of something I couldn’t speak out loud. I always needed to make art, I just didn’t allow myself to do it.

ILIANA SKOULAXINOU IG:@iliana_skoulaxinou Iliana was born in Athen,She works mainly with acrylics and oil but having experimented and used various materials and techniques which give greater expressiveness to the subject and enrich the composition with differentiation. In the course of her work begins to remove the naturalistic elements and emphasizes the structure and composition of shapes dictated by the display while reaching colour largely saturated. She is dominant theme in the works of ordinary faces by passing them to a more dreamlike word. She has performed over 20 group exhibitions throughout Greece and Italy.

MOYINKOLA IG:@moyinkola

Moyinkola is a university graduate of Biochemistry. The 21-year-old self-taught Nigerian visual artist majors in the use of charcoal and graphite based materials to create conceptual photo-like drawings around subjects that pertain to life and existence. Being displayed are two of his works; Essence and Afro. The drawing Essence serves to remind us that there indeed is a purpose for human life and existence while Afro preaches that all lives are equally important regardless of race and should be treated everywhere in that light. He is currently working on a long-term portrait drawing project and desires to show it to the world on completion. Moyinkola also teaches his techniques at online and traditional drawing classes and personal one-on-one classes as well

PAPAGEORGIOU SAVVAS IG: @papageorgiou.savvas

Savvas papageorgiou is an upcoming Greek painter based in Thessaloniki, where he studies at the faculty of visual and applied arts, Auth. Not much to be said yet about the artist himself, his paintings are surrounded by a melancholic silence, leaving the viewer to eavesdrop the noise in it.

GIUDITTA R IG:@giuditta_r_artist

@giuditta_r_art

Italian visual artist based in Berlin. Giuditta R starts her artistic career showing her artworks in several international spaces: Denmark, Germany, France, Lithuania, Spain, America, Messico, Italy, Austria, Hungary, England, Greece, etc. Her works are in various collections both private and public worldwide. ”Giuditta's artworks are made with graphite and mixed techniques on cardboard. Her project presents a psychological map and spiritual landscape of the human being, and unmasks the false appearances that conceal the true nature of human reality. The characters portraied delve into the inner human landscape to explore its depth. These universal "portraits" offer keen insight into human emotions and behaviors. They reflect on the state of the individual and collective unconscious, transcending cultural stereotypes and barriers.”

NOONOO PAPAGEORGIOU IG:@lickycreature

Noonoo grew up in Africa, Zambia and schooled in South Africa where her interest in Art began. She later moved to Greece after finishing her education and is currently studying Art at the American college of Greece. Noonoo has taken part in a previous show at Phoenix Gallery where her sculptures of primitive intersex figures were displayed. Noonoo has created a variety of art containing many different styles and materials and therefore, enjoys the ability to explore the unknown.

ABENA OYIWAA IG: @abenaoyiwaa

Abena Oyiwaa is a figurative artist based in Accra, Ghana. She is inspired by the emotions of women and children in her society. She is also an NFT Artist with digital works available on the Foundation.io market place. Through her art, she seeks to shed more light on the unseen moments in one’s life ,with regards to the pursuit of passion.

MONICA CONTENTI IG: @contenti_monica

Monica Contenti is an artist/graphic designer from Guatemala based in Barcelona and Argentina. She has an exquisite background in terms of culture and art. Having lived and traveled in various countries brought her the authentic and striking style that characterises her. Her style is defined as a combination of expressionism and pop art, undoubtedly a contemporary style.

The Art work are intuitive expressions of the artist's inner vision of what attracts her of people she sees on the street, or every day life. She considers herself hungry and fanatic for the essence they transmit. It is natural for her to see something captivating and magnificent in each person, and then having the need to express it through a painting.

KELANI FATAI IG: @Kelanifatai

Landscape and Portrait Artist. Kelani Fatai was born in Lagos in 1994.

Kelani was offered admission in the Prestigious Yaba College of Technology to study art in 2014. He had his Siwes Program (IT) in TSTTV art studio under the tutelage of Master Opedun Damilola in 2016. Though educated in top tier environments, this artist continues to believe that the experience he has acquired by trial and error have been his best teacher.

Kelani has built a diverse portfolio of commissioned pieces, Pastel paintings, water color, oil paintings, Charcoal drawings, acrylic paintings, mixed Media work that attest to an admiration of great art connoisseurs and collectors and speak to the vibrancy of community and internationally.

Kelani won the first runner up in Art and craft category of Talent hunt competition hosted by the Mushin Local government chairman on February 2nd 2021. Also won the third runner up of the NYSC Talent hunt competition in Kano State, Nigeria.

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