Athens Open Art | 6th August

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1. EMELINE MOTTAIS 2. DESPOINA PAPANDREOU 3. XELENA (ELENA CHATZIATHANASIOU) 4. LOUIZA PERATIKOU 5. GEORGINA HARE 6. SIMON SAĞLAMOĞLU 7. KASKARTS 8. TAMARA JOKIC 9. STAMATIS PARIS KONTOS 10. AAKASH RAJENDRA MALI

EMELINE MOTTAIS @emelinemottais

I am Emeline Mottais, from France but living in Berlin since 9 years. I draw since I am 7-8 years old. It was for me a way to go away from the hard separation of my parents and my father’s illness at this time. Then I developed a fascination for materiality and creation so when I grew up I wanted to study the materiality in order to understand what is around us (materiality is everywhere). It is the reason why, I have a scientific background on one side and creative background on the other side. I also worked more than ten years in the architecture field, from where I took lot of inspiration in my new series “angles, lines and forms”.

I want to draw the forms which are all around us in order to give them a new place in our consideration. Indeed, when we see something beautiful, we are more conscious about the colors, the materiality,... but less about the impact of the composition and forms on our mind, and the place it has in our sensibility for “beauty”. Through my art I let the public imagine its own colors, materiality, hearing, feeling,... or simply be aware of the composition created by those shapes, angles, and lines. I wish by this way to let the public be its own artist, and thus bringing a new dimen- sion to what they are seeing.

DESPOINA PAPANDREOU @Despina.Papandreou

Greek artist born and based in Thessaloniki, Greece.

I studied Ceramic and Pottery for 3 years. This was the trigger to open a window for me and start wondering to the art world. At the same time with ceramic I studied free drawing and painting.

I paint with my imagination. I love painting on strange and different objects, sometimes even funny one's. What characterize my work is definitely the vivid colors.

I enjoy also making sculptures, using new materials and techniques.

I want my art to give joy to those who see them.

My main job as a travel agent helped me to see many places around the world and be inspired.

I hope you like my work and enjoy it.

XELENA (ELENA CHATZIATHANASIOU) @chatziathanasiou_elena

Elena Chatziathanasiou is a visual artist who’s born and living in Greece Thessaloniki.

She has studied medical laboratory at paster school and fine art at Aristotle University with an excellent rating. On her art she tries to prove the perceptual movement of the world, nature and life. From prehistoric times until today, people have never stopped moving from region to region and from continent to continent, forming new frontiers and new worlds. With these changes however different civilizations and cultures are transferred.

Her kinetics sculptures have conceptual meaning. The materials she uses are usually the plexiglass and stainless steel. Her works are in private collections in Greece and abroad.

LOUIZA PERATIKOU @lou_perlou

I studied fine arts at Central Saint Martins in London and experimented with a variety of different art forms always initiating my ideas with a sketch. The last couple of years I have been concentrating on exploring the relations we create between mind and body, each other and I try to explore our detachment from existence, feelings and connections to ourselves and others.

GEORGINA HARE @artist.gg

COLOUR. FEELING. MOVEMENT. British based contemporary painter, Georgina originally comes from a professional dance background having performed in music videos, films and TV for companies including Warner Brothers and Agent Provocateur. Her art is drawn from this physical form of expression, with each piece heavily influenced by the emotion of music, which she then translates onto her art.

Georgina works from a tiny little studio in Bristol, England, and practices painting as a form of cathartic meditation.

“I am often surprised by the interpretations and the meaning viewers extract from my work.

I set out with no plan for each piece, and literally work impulsively ‘in the moment’. I believe this enables each piece to organically come from within.”

You can find Georgina’s work in galleries, venues and exhibitions in England and Europe.

She also previously worked for British contemporary painters Sophie Tea and Allan Storer.

SIMON SAĞLAMOĞLU @simon.saglamoglu.art

Following a pattern of abstract creation, Simon Sağlamoğ- lu’s works offer a window, passage or just a set of lights for the viewers’ perception.

In the light of his belief in "forms and colors," the artist tries to break all connections to reality and create a strong vision through abstraction. His approach is to achieve a balance between textured layers and distinct color fields spread over the surface, which approximates to mono- chrome.

Based in Istanbul, Sağlamoğlu is a self-taught artist with a background in architecture and art history.

His works have been featured in various national and international exhibitions and online platforms.

KASKARTS @kaskarts

Aneesa Kaskar was born and raised in Hertfordshire, UK, and has currently been living in Scotland for the past 10 years. She is a contemporary artist working with acrylic and abstraction, who enjoys toying with colours beyond her comfort zone. A keen traveller with a scientific back- ground, her work is shaped by drawing upon different influences such as places visited, nature, science and personal experiences. Her abstract paintings express emotion as a visual language with a great importance placed on positivity and uplifting others through her work.

TAMARA JOKIC @takt.art

Artist Tamara Jokić borne and based in Belgrade, Serbia. After bachelor's degree in Textile Design at Faculty of Applied arts, 2018. Tamara finished a Master’s degree in Applied painting at the same university in 2021. In 2014. Tamara won an award for the best artwork in School of design. She participated in many collective and solo exhibitions.

The main subject and idea of the artworks is the collabora- tion and combination of contemporary textile and monu- mental painting, which also represent the main inspiration throughout the whole process of creating.

About this certain project, The main idea behind this artwork is the transition of rocks into abstract elements. During this process I used digital skills to come to the final sketch by which later on I'll turn into my next installation.

STAMATIS PARIS KONTOS @stamatis.paris.kontos

My enthusiasm for arts began from the early age of eight where I was signed at a Philharmonic , that was my first step into the world of arts. Originally my passion for painting and the curiosity of seeing the world with a different perspective, came the summer of 2000 where I met with a young artist named Frixos. We were neighbors, so i decided one day to visit him and talk with him. The only thing I remember from his conversation is “go out and paint". I am in love with abstract art and expressionism. I paint in order to travel places and touch peoples hearts via my creations.

AAKASH RAJENDRA MALI @kabir447

Aakash Rajendra Mali was born in 1999 in Vadodara district, Gujarat, India to a family of farmers. After gradua- tion from high school, he pursued an Interior Design at the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad. The design schooling was a starting point to provide him an exposure to the Fine Art discipline.

Aakash discovered a new visual vocabulary inspired by the Kota Paintings and has been working on subjects such as animal hunting, Urban Poverty, Fantasy Landscape and reimagining folktales such as the Arabian Nights. The Sikar series is thought to explore and revisit the subject such as animal hunting and help the viewer to comprehend the subject with a new perspective and to encourage the idea of coexistence. While ‘One Thousand and One Nights’ explores the narrative and imaginative subject and an experiment on combining fluid forms, Interior elements and appearance of the characters into his paintings.

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