Travelling exhibitions

On March 16 2007, the Georgian Charter facilitation team has organized a workshop with the children’s art studio. There were two groups of children participating the project: 1. The children from the Centre for Rehabilitation of the Homeless Children, from the Risk Group (Tsisartkela, Begurebi), from a school in Ananuri and from the former orphanage of Temka. 2. The children from the Art Studio in Tbilisi (a group which also includes handicapped children). The ages of children in both (...)

Five moons and a red mountain Wood, acrylics, 25Χ35 cm Artist’s statement Artist’s biography Andreas Kargsten was born in 1965, in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied sculpture in the School of Fine Arts of Stockholm (1984-89). He won the first prize for the graduates and a scholarship from the School of Fine Arts of Stockholm. His work was displayed in individual exhibitions in the gallery “Epistrofi” (Athens, 2000) and in the park of the square Nik. Kitsiki (Athens, 2004). He has participated in (...)

Saint Isidoros blessing the Schinos tree Artist’s statement Artist’s biography Konstantinos Pantelakis is an icon painter and a researcher in Orthodox iconography and popular painting. He paints icons following the Byzantine way (Cretan School). He is currently teaching the painting of icons and he participates in an art-therapy project in the public psychiatric hospital of Dromokaitio. He has participated in group exhibitions in Chios and Athens in Greece, and Brindizi in Italy. He has (...)

Artist’s statement Artist’s biography Giannis Andriomenos was born in Athens, Greece, in 1976. He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of Athens and was trained in engraving at the Willemm De Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, Holland. He is currently working as a high-school art professor. He has presented his work in group exhibitions in Athens, Chania, and in Tsesme, Turkey. Contact with the artist: Address: Troon 104, Ano Petralona, Athens, Greece e-mail: (...)

Silent protest Artist statement Artist’s biography The Greek artist Sotiria Thomopoulou works as a social worker. She is a painter, a stage designer and a poet. Some of her paintings and her mosaics have been presented in group exhibitions in Egaleo, Perisso, in the edifice of Zappion in Athens and elsewhere. Since 2004, she has been collaborating with the School of Drama and the (...)

Isolation Dimensions: 50cm x 100cm Material: charcoal, acrylics Artist biography Elsa Tatsi was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1978. She studied at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece, as well as at the School of icons painting of K. Georgiadis, in Thessaloniki. She has presented her work in two individual exhibitions in Ioannina, as well as in various group exhibitions in Thessaloniki, Ioannina, Philippiada. She has won two awards, in the 4th (...)

Seed of life’s tree Artist’s statement Artist biography Cristina Schleder was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1952. She has studied “Design and Visual Communication”. Since 1992, she has started to present her art work in individual shows in places like the Romero Britto Gallery – Miami - USA, as well as in various galleries in Sao Paulo – Brasil. She part

Magnifying lens Artist’s statement Artist’s biography Elli Xatziantoniou was born in 1986 and grew up in Thessaloniki, Greece. She is currently studying at the Department of Products and Systems Design Engineering of the Aegean University in Syros, Greece.

Imprints Artist’s statement Artist’s biography Dimitra Gousi was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1976. Between 1994 and 1999 she studied at the School of Fine Arts, Department of Visual Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her biography includes an individual exhibition in January 2007 in Ioannina and the participation in several collective exhibitions in Greece, in Thessaloniki, Serres, Edessa, Ioannina, Irakleion, as well as in Belgrad, Serbia. Contact with the artist: (...)

In our hand About the painting Artist biography The Brazilian artist Marcelo Bicalho, born in 1962, is a designer and illustrator. He teaches Art and Design History in the Design School of Minas Gerais State University, in Brazil. In the last 10 years he has been well known by his works in paper sculpture, creating pieces that combine figurative rendering with simulated perspective, visual illusionism and the complexity of folded paper patterns. His drawings and sculptures are in awarded (...)

The colors of life 2006, Painting oil, 80 x 65 cm About the painting Artist biography Caterina Canellis was born in 1945 in Athens. She grew up and was educated in Greece but before she was 20, she left and got married in Paris. There she started a late career in painting. She has followed courses in the “Ecole des Beaux-Arts” but she is mainly self-taught. During the last 20 years, the public has had many opportunities to see her work in places like Paris, Brussels, Istanbul, Luxembourg, (...)

Fragments of nature Description of work Artist biography Caterina Aslanidou was born in 1978 in Athens, Greece. She has studied painting in the School of Arts of Athens. She followed the workshop of engraving in the Faculty of Arts in Sevilla, Spain. Since 2005, she works in the island of Chios, in Greece, as a professor of Art at the high school. She has participated in six collective exhibitions in Greece, in Chios, Athens, Samothrace and Lavrio. Her work was displayed in an individual (...)

Reflected Caraiva Acrylic and others on synthetic sail-cloth 60 cm x 50 cm, 2007 Description of work ; This painting shows images reflected in the water, one of the most familiar subjects of the art of painting. The canvas shows the houses of the people of Caraiva, a small village in the south of Bahia State, Brazil. "Caraíva" in tupi-guarani language means : One that eats men. These charming fishermens’ houses are a good example of the houses that couldn’t escape from modernism, that in (...)

Contemporary Pursuit Description of Work Artist Biography The work of Melody Reeves investigates the complex of worlds framed by our intertwining economic, social, natural and cultural spheres. She uses a wide range of materials and systems of thought, examining pivotal points of spiritual navigation through a trans-disciplinary vocabulary of assimilation, improvisation, and contemplation. A Lecturer in Three-Dimensional Design at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, she received (...)