Μεταμόρφωσις: Beyond Shapes

Μεταμόρφωσις: Beyond Shapes ANNA ANTARTI - THEODORE CHRONIS - VASILIKI KOSKINIOTOU - KONSTANTINOS MIHALOS - ZACHARIAS PAPANTONIOU

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Μεταμόρφωσις: Beyond Shapes Anna Antarti - Theodore Chronis - Vasiliki Koskiniotou - Konstantinos Mihalos - Zacharias Papantoniou

MALOU ART CONSULTING, Athens, Greece

Μεταμόρφωσις: Beyond Shapes AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTING BY:

ANNA ANTARTI - THEODORE CHRONIS - VASILIKI KOSKINIOTOU - KONSTANTINOS MIHALOS - ZACHARIAS PAPANTONIOU 2 ND J UNE 2016 - 1 ST J ULY 2016 ARTMOORHOUSE | MOOR HOUSE, 120 LONDON WALL, LONDON EC2Y5ET

EXHIBITION CONCEPT: MALOU ART CONSULTING AND ARTMOORHOUSE LONDON Exhibition Curated by: ELISA MARTINELLI AND AVRA ALEVROPOULOU BROCHURE CONCEPT:

ARTMOORHOUSE LONDON

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Μεταμόρφωσις: Beyond Shapes Art is the free motion, an intuitive response to the reality in which it finds expression, of which it is the expression.

The human imagination seems to find freedom in ambiguities “Παντα Ρηει¨. Everything flow the idea that reality is flow not form. On this view of elemental being there are, in reality, no discrete things, but a continuous process of transformations: the natural life of things is the continuous metamorphosis.

The concept of metamorphosis carries in itself a change from a strictly philosophical approach to a broadly artistic perspective. Artistic intuition and philosophical interest, looks beyond the convenience of ordinary perspectives, to the question of reality, to the world as its to things themselves. The logic of identity does not allow that one thing can be another, but it is art that captures this process, in its many frames: the living motion of reality as a fully inclusive resource that can embrace the sphere of perception in its diversity and depth.

Contemporary artistic practice has a tendency of becoming uncontrollably drawn to the philosophical conceptualisation of reality, on the verge of committing an act of abstraction. In this exhibition the five artists showcasing their work, attempt to align the whole of non-representation with archetypes, which, in this case lie not in the world of objects but in the sphere of philosophy and non-existence.

 

Anna Antarti, ABSTRACT 56, 2016, mixed media on canvas, 105 cm x 130 cm

 

Anna Antarti , ABSTRACT 55, 2016, mixed media on canvas, 90 cm x 120 cm

 

Anna Antarti ABSTRACT 16, 2006, mixed media on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm

 

Theodore Chronis, UNTITLED, 2015, mixed media on canvas, 145 cm x 145 cm

 

Theodore Chronis ,RED HORSE, 2013, mixed media on canvas, 100 cm x 100 cm

Theodore Chronis, OATHS OF NARCISUS, 2014, mixed media on canvas, 135 cm x 100 cm

Theodore Chronis , UNDERWATER DREAMS , 2011, mixed media on canvas, 180 cm x 150 cm

 

Theodore Chronis, THE MIRROR STAGE, 2012, mixed media on paper, 60 cm x 80 cm

 

Vasiliki Koskiniotou, ELEFSINA, 2010, oil and pastels on canvas, 120 cm x 120 cm

 

Vasiliki Koskiniotou, MOTHER TONGUE, 2012-2013, oil and pastels on canvas, 110 cm x 90 cm

 

Vasiliki Koskiniotou, GYMNASTICS, 2007, oil and pastels on canvas, 120 cm x 120 cm

 

Vasiliki Koskiniotou, WISHES AND PRAYERS, 2010, oil and pastels on canvas, 100 cm x 70 cm

Konstantinos Mihalos CLOSED FIGURES ENCAPSULATIONS, 2012, mixed media on canvas, 180 cm x 150 cm

 

Konstantinos Mihalos, CLOSED FIGURES/ MERGENCE, 2012 mixed media on canvas, 120 cm x 150 cm

 

Konstantinos Mihalos, CLOSED FIGURES/ ATLAS, 2013 mixed media on canvas, 100 cm x 80 cm

 

Konstantinos Mihalos, CLOSED FIGURES/ BIRTH, 2013 mixed media on canvas, 100 cm x 80 cm

Konstantinos Mihalos, CLOSED FIGURES/, BAGS OF AEOLUS, 2013 mixed media on canvas, 100 cm x 80 cm

Zacharias Papantoniou, SCROLL /TRIPTYCH,2008, oil on canvas, 183 cm x 487 cm

 

Zacharias Papantoniou, UNTITLED 2, 2015, oil on canvas, 180 cm x 170 cm

ANNA ANTARTI Anna Antarti was born in Athens in 1984. She starts drawing from a very young age and in 2002 she enters both the Aristotle University of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki (in first place) and the Athens School of Fine Arts, where she studies painting under professor Tassos Christakis. She also attends printmaking by V. Kazakos and V. Tsalamata and sculpting by G. Houliaras. In 2005 she expands her printmaking studies at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts in the workshop of G. Damish. In 2007 she graduates manga cum laude from Athens School of Fine Arts. After her graduation she works at the National Art Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum in the art conservation department of M. Doulgeridis. Since 2010 she is a member of the Greek Chamber for Visual Arts. Her artwork has been exhibited in group shows and is part of private collections.

ABOUT HER WORK The composition of her works consists of vertical direction and shape, reflecting a powerful dynamic quality. Large scale canvases occasionally depict minimalistic elements in search of a deeper meaning. Colours sometimes appear to be on the surface and at other times appear to fade back. The artist deliberately chooses to use a stable and powerful colour palette of blacks, whites, yellows, reds, and earth tones.

To ensure an ideal connection of tactile and visual experience she combines levels of depth, the illusion of “near” and “far” and the use of hard and soft materials. The composition of the material is defined by its adjoining elements giving, on occasion, a near obsession with the material itself.

Although a primary trigger is always present, the composition of a work rarely starts with a clear theme in mind, but rather relies on the juxtaposition of diverse materials, colours and shapes, to define its final form and meaning. For this reason, her works do not bear titles as she chooses to invite her audience to interpret the abstract form in their own way thus expanding the range of potential interpretations of her work.

AWARDS 2001 1st Prize at the EBO exhibition for young artists, Cultural Centre of Athens.

SOLO SHOWS 2008 Gallery Alexandros, Kifisia, Athens.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2015

“Dialogue between the artist and the spectator” Malou art gallery, Athens.

2014 2012

“Greek Contemporary Painting“ Gallery Alexandros Pefki, Athens.

“90 Years from the disaster of Asia Minor”, Panetolium Building, Nea Ionia, Athens.

2007

“Graduating Class 2006-2007”, N.Kessanlis Exhibition Hall, Athens School of Fine Arts

THEO CHRONIS Theo Chronis is a Greek visual artist dividing his time between Greece and the United Kingdom. He graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts in 2006 and since then he has been developing his contemporary painting practice and working as an arts instructor and digital artist. He has shown his work in two solo shows and participated in numerous group shows in Greece, Europe and the US. His artworks are part of European private collections. In 2011 he co-founded the art teaching platform Zographi in Athens and in 2015 he was a resident artist at the “League Residency at Vyt” in New York.

NEW ORIGINALS Chronis considers himself a figurative painter with an understanding of the limitations and loopholes of figuration and of painting in general. “New originals” are a series of mixed media paintings where he attempts to explore the boundaries of representation and abstraction, of drawing and painting, of colour and shading. Every painting in these series starts in a completely abstract, random and loose way of just making meaningless marks onto the painting surface, losing control and allowing for accidents to happen using splashes, dripping, violent line drawing, painting with the eyes closed or with his off hand, so to say. Generally, in these beginning stages everything is acceptable. From that point on a long process of trying to "see" or “discover” an image suggested by this “mess” begins. Usually this image involves a body or more and this is a way for the artist to keep the painting from becoming too abstract or too decorative. The resulting picture and the composition are strictly not pre conceived and thus surprising to him as well. This is always the product of a slow process of looking at the paint, defining large forms, breaking down other forms that are too defined, looking again and so on. In the artists own words: “When the painting has a special kind of presence, that it feels like it’s a world someone might want to inhabit or is already inhabited by “things” or “bodies”, I just stop.

The painting is done.” Chronis’ influences range from ancient Chinese sumi-e painting to the great western academic tradition where his own art training belongs, to modernism, to abstract expressionism to many, many post war and contemporary painters.

These influences appear in this series as three aspects usually blended together so as to seem inseparable: the figurative, the gestural and the compositorial. The artist works in a way that none of these completely dominates a painting but instead they add to the whole and complement each other.

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS AND AWARDS 2015

Ruth Katzman Grant and Residency, Sparkill, NY Vytlacil Campus of The Art Students League of New York

2002-2004 Greek State Scholarship Foundation Grant, Athens, Greece SOLO SHOWS 2014 ‘New Originals’ Alexandros Gallery, Peyki, Athens, Greece 2011

‘The Space Between’ Pragma.gr, Athens, Greece

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2015

“Dialogue between the artist and the spectator”, Malou Art Gallery, Athens

2011 2010

‘Totally unknown’ Zappeion Hall, Athens, Greece ‘The human form in art’ Technopolis multispace, Athens

2009

‘Small is Smart’ Artower Agora gallery, Athens

2008

‘ASFA Graduates of 2006’ Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens

2007

‘Conversing with Rembrandt’ De Haagse Kunstkring gallery The Hague, The Netherlands

PRESS 2012

Nikolas Zois: “The Offspring of the arts”. Article in‘TA NEA’ newspaper.

EDUCATION 2001-2006 Athens School of Fine Arts Degree in visual arts (painting) under Tassos Christakis

VASSILIKI KOSKINIOTOU ‘’We have to do with exceptional painting, with emotive sensitivity and personal vision, on the borderline between abstract and representational art, which at times draws its inspiration from poetry and language. Mixed media with oils, oil sticks and oil pastels on paper and canvas, chromatically balanced to an almost musical harmony, materialise a self-sufficient visual world. In this universe we can discern forms with vivid symbolic content which constitute a painting idiom which, albeit only scarcely anthropomorphic, is in its essence deeply anthropocentric.

The images of ladders, avid in Koskiniotou’s work act as leitmotif: at times vertical in its track upwards, at other times the end of spiral or a helix, occasionally it roughly outlines a female form, or hints at the double helix of life and creation; and with the ladder, the arrow, a sign and trace of movement, transition, even transformation, but primarily of humanisation and erotic origin; the rain, a pattern of immersion, nourishment, fertility and intercourse; diverse celestial bodies, signs of the attraction of the bond; the moon, a self-referential sign of the immersion in the self and in the world; the arc-house and the vessel, allegories of existence and transition respectively ; organic forms such as

the seed, the stem, images of flourishing and fruit-bearing,

metaphors of the creation of life and of artistic creation; emerging or suggestively concealed forms , in potential creator-mothers, maternal figures assuming the shape of a house or a crop, couples floating over the background of organic landscapes of the microcosmos and cosmological landscapes of the macrocosmos in a manner evoking Chagall, Klee and Miro.”

Dimitris Loukidelis From the catalogue of the exhibition V.Koskiniotou, Metechnio, April-May 2008/Athens, Greece STUDIES 2006 2002 1991 1990 1989

Degree in Visual Arts, the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece Postgraduate Seminar in Philosophy of Art, University of Athens Postgraduate Seminar in History of Art and Bilingual Translation, Universite Lumiere II, Lyon, France Diploma in Translation, I.F.A. Athens Degree in French Language and Literature, University of Athens

SOLO SHOWS 2014 Places of Passage, Artzone 42 Gallery 2013 Breastfeeding mothers, Alexandra’s Nursery University Hospital, Athens 2012 Spring Studies, Nroom-Art Space, curat. N. Maehara, Tokyo, Japan 2008 Origins and Ladders, Titanium Art Gallery, Athens 2008 Traces of Ladder and Other Erotic Works, Metaixmion- Gallery, Athens SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2016 “Dialogue between the artist and the spectator”,, Malou Art Gallery, Athens 2015 Μythologies re-tailed, international group show Chania, Crete 2015 Threads and Shadows, the Art Loft, Athens 2014 Words and colour, Kaplanon gallery, Athens 2014 Sea ecstatic D.C.Artworks Gallery, Athens 2014 We33, ART ATHINA, Projects-Platform 2013 Big crisis, Small works, Follow Your Art Gallery 2012 Hope/kibou group show, Nerima Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 2012 ‘More female than ever’, Follow Your Art Gallery, Kythira island, Greece 2011 Immagina, 13th Art-Fair of Contemporary art, Fiere di Reggio Emilia, Italy 2011 Homage to Lafcadio Hearn, Art & Book exhibition, Nippon Gallery, NY 2011 Not female at all, Chorostasion, Athens 2010 The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn, Matsue Museum Castle, Matsue of Japan.

2010 Erisychthon, Kanellopoulos Foundation- Academy of Athens, Eleusis 2009 Silent Dialogues: Multimedia Portaits throughout Time, the ACG Art Gallery, Athens 2009 Greek Printing: An Overview, Thessalonica. Hellenic Chamber of Fine Arts and the Modern Art. 2008 9 Women artists in Dialogue with the Environment, Ios Island.

2008 Athens School of Fine Arts 2006-07 graduates show, Athens Macedonian Museum of Athens

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Maria Yiayiannou ‘Making Bridges’- on the ‘smiling maternities’ of Vassiliki Koskiniotou, May 2014 Ira Papapostolou ‘On the work of Vassiliki Koskiniotou April 2014 Chronos magazine, online presentation, Nefeli editions, September 2014 Vassiliki Athena Vayenou, On Koskiniotou’s ‘Spring Studies’ , Athens. April 2012 ‘Art-beat’ the Tokyo artsmagazine, on spring studies in Nroom gallery, Tokyo, 2012 Alexandra Koroxenides: ‘ Paintings with poetic rhythm’ 2008 Thoughts of a shy-blogspot.com: ‘Vassiliki koskiniotou’s paintings exhibition in Titanium’ 28.09.2008 Efi Athanasiou: Vassiliki Koskiniotou: A painting of Colour-Energie’ September 2008 Megacles Rogakos: Vassiliki Koskiniotou: Ut poesis picture September 2008 Angheliki Bassoukou, “Two-dimensional narration and its deeper perspective” August 2008 Dimitris Loukidelis, Note on the work of Vassiliki Koskiniotou, 2008

  KONSTANTINOS MICHALOS Born in 1962 in Halkida, Greece, Kostas Michalos belongs to a generation of Greek contemporary artists, where personal expression prevails over stylistic considerations. His art can be described as more empirical than following strict rules or obsessively adhering to technical processes. Through his painting he expresses his own psychological drives, as well as reflections on philosophical, spiritual and social concepts.

His art is deeply self-referencing even in its most abstract form, although traces of human presence are evident in all of his works, either in the form of purely abstract markings or as symbolic juxtaposition of imagery.

According to Klee's statement: Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible; Michalos' painting constitutes an intrusive gaze into his private obsessions, where by retracing them, they transform into images; these images are then processed and formed into signs or symbols, according to the concepts the artist is already preoccupied with.

In that way he seems to be balancing between expressionism and conceptualism by creating his own vocabulary.

His spaces are mostly transparent with soft colour brushings and tones, which are then activated by the dynamic expressionistic forms, prevailing in the centre of the painting; and through this struggle of colours and shapes various relationships emerge; relationships which can be variously interpreted, imparting character to the artwork.

The caged figures of the artist represent modern man's entrapment on a psychological as well as on a social and cultural level. In parallel, references are made on the age-old problems of existence as these have been expressed by ancient Greek tragedians and philosophers.

STUDIES 1987-1992 ATHENS SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS EXHIBITIONS 2015 GALLERY UNDERFLOW, ATHENS 2015 GALLERY MALOU-ART, ATHENS 2014 GALLERY TITANIUM, ATHENS 2014 ART GALLERY OF YDRA, GREECE 2014 GALLERY TITANIUM, ATHENS. THEMED EL GRECO 2005 ART GALLERY OF HALKIS, GREECE 2003 ART GALLERY OF HANIA, GREECE 2000 GALLERY OF KARUSTOS, GREECE 1996 HIGH SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS, ATHENS 1996 CENTRAL LIBRARY OF HALKIDA, GREECE 1996 HALKIDA TOWN HALL, GREECE 1994 NATIONAL GALLERY OF ATHENS SEMINARS-LECTURES 1997 - 2002 Participation in ''MELINA'' program - EDUCATION AND CULTURE of MINISTRY OF CULTURE. Is a member of many European Art Forums and he has given lectures on Art Education in many Greek cities.

He has organised and directed numerous art workshops in Greece.

ZACHARIAS PAPANTONIOU Zacharias Papantoniou was born in 1978 in Athens, Greece. He studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He continued his studies as a Fulbright Scholar and earned his MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He has had two solo shows and participated in several group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

Papantoniou’s work has a personal tone that uses contemporary visual language of multiple references and influences and is driven by the ambition to drag up and see through the internal concerns and reflections of the artist’s own nature. Adopting colour’s richness and texture as a vehicle, Papantoniou oscillates from abstract to representational and uses intuition with an extremely analytical process to create poetic works with emotional and intellectual density. Each painting is “orchestrated” in layers through superposed arrangements, crossings and readjustments while avoiding any superficial resolutions. A polyprismatic image emerges that has multiple readings and meanings.

GRANTS AND AWARDS 2008 Bakala Foundation Scholarship 2007 Fulbright Scholarship 2005 Nomination - Modern European Painting Frysiras Award (FA2), Frysiras Museum SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Kaplanon 5 Gallery (-catalogue) Athens, GR 2011 Kaplanon 5 Gallery (-catalogue) Athens, GR

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) 2013 ART-ATHINA with Kaplanon 5 Gallery (-catalogue) Athens, GR 2011 ART-ATHINA with Kaplanon 5 Gallery, Athens, GR 2009 Paine and Bakalar Galleries/ Massart, «Graduate Thesis Show» (-catalogue) Boston, US 2008 Boston University (BU), BYC/ «Boston Young Contemporaries» (Boston, US) Doran Gallery/ Massart, Boston, US 2006 Frysiras Museum for the Modern European Painting Frysiras Award of 2005 (-catalogue) Athens, GR

 

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