artist, printmaker
As an artist I create a world of distortions, bringing up images from my memory and my imagination, then refining them by adding or subtracting colors and lines. I examine the condition of people, animals, places and events from my own or from common experiences. My pictures tend to disorient, even when they depict recognizable images such as landscapes or forms. Woodcut is a technique that provides me with the numerous tools of expression that allow me to speak in the most concise artistic manner, creating a situation that is beyond words and that fills the void between though and speech
Lives and works in Athens.
Education
1999-2006: Printmaking at the School of Fine Arts of Athens
1986 – 92: Painting at the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2022: Morphologies, EKTόS Art Space, Athens
2016: Life, Eikastikes Anazitiseis, Athens
2007: City, Technochoros art Gallery, Athens.
2003 Paintings and drawings Galeria Merum v Modra, Modra (Slovakia)
Group exhibitions
2024: Metamorphosis – Approaches to Kafka, Hollar Gallery, Prague, Czechia
2023: Reliés ou pas / Histoires de livres, Fondation La Ruche-Seydoux, Paris, France
2023: Impressions, Olympic Municipal Art Gallery Maroussi, Athens
2023: Contemporary Greek Printmaking, GALLERY13, Drama, North Greece
2022: The Human Dream, Cultural center of Nea Ionia, Volos, Central Greece
2022: Come 2Gether, Alibi Gallery, Psiri, Athens
2022: Playtime, EKTόS Art Space, Athens
2022: Mediterranean: Tradition – Transition – Route, The House of Cyprus, Athens
2021: 62d annual exhibition of Japan Print Society, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
2021: Selections of Works from the archive of the Greek Printmakers’ Association, Chrysogelos Building, Messolongi, Western Greece
2021: Hanga Forum exhibition, Washi-no-Sato, Saitama, Japan
2021: Contemporary Greek Printmaking in Japan,Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Ueno-Park, Tokyo
2021: Contemporary Greek Printmaking in Romania, National Museum Complex of Iași, Iasi, Romania
2019: 6 x 3 + 6, S.G. Art Gallery, Athens
2019: Contemporary Greek Printmaking in Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Ueno-Park, Tokyo
2019: From the bottom of my heart, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens
2019: Contemporary Greek Printmaking in Japan, Washi-no-Sato, Saitama, Japan
2019: Contemporary Greek and Japanese Printmaking, Municipal Gallery of Piraeus,
2018: Kyoto International Woodprint Exhibition, Kyoto City International Exchange Hall (KoKoKa), Japan
2018: Nostos, 4th International Athens Print Fest, Melina Cultural Center, Athens
2016: Athina Thea / Athens Views Benaki Museum, Athens
2016: Contemporary Print Art from Athens, Herakleidon Museum, Athens
2016: Magical Horizons,Melina Cultural Center, Athens
2016: Illusions and Reality, metamatic:taf, Athens
2015: Print meetings, Telemachos Kanthos Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus
2012: Plan B, 2nd International Athens Print Fest
2012: Supernova, The Art Foundation, Athens
2012: «Incisione greca alle Terme di Dioclesiano», Μuseo Νazionale Romano Terme di Diocleziano, Rome, Italy.
2012: “The printmaking line connects Athens – Florence” School of Specialization in printmaking Il Bisonte, Italy
2011: Contemporary Greek Printmakers, Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2011: Contemporary Printmaking Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2010: Greek Printmaking, “Il Bisonte” Printmaking school, Florence,
2010: Greek Printmaking, Μuseo Νazionale Romano Terme di Diocleziano, Rome
2010:«Us & Them», Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2009: Difficult Nights, 1st International Athens Print Fest,
2009: Printmaking x 6, Kaplanon 5 Art Gallery, Athens
2008: Greek Printmaking Today, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2008: 7th International Print exhibition, Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008: «Us & Them», Tem Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2007: Greek Printmaking Today, Averoff Gallery, Metsovo,
2007: “Greek Art 07”, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
2006: Urban Landscapes, Municipal Gallery, Athens
2005: Monoprints, Skironeio Centre, Kiphissia & Eirmos gallery, Thessaloniki
2004: Contemporary Greek Engraving (touring), Foundation for Thracian Art and Tradition, Xanthi – Municipal Gallery, Corfu – Vafopouleio Cultural Centre, Thessaloniki
2003: Oikade, Melina Merkouri Cultural Centre of Athens
2003: Oikade, Contemporary Art Centre, Rethymno
2003: Galeria Merum v Modra, Modra (Slovakia)
2002: Group exhibition Mojmírovce (Slovakia)
2000 – 2002: PRINTEXPO (touring), Bologna – Berlin – Madrid – Barcelona – Bilbao – Birmingham – Bristol – Caen – Brussels – Cuenca – Porto – Strasburg – Athens
1989: Exhibition of drawing, Hirsch Palace, Swentzingen, Germany.
Activities
2018 4th International Athens Print Fest. Supervising andcoordinating the departments responsible for implementing the programme
2017 “From Tradition to Transition: Aspects and Technologies of printmaking from the past to present day”, 1st international printmaking conference (22 – 24 of November 2017), coordinated and co-organized by the Cypriot Printmakers’ Association and the Greek Printmakers’ Association. A. G. Leventis Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2016 Chairman of the 3rd International Athens Print Fest
2012 Chairman of the 2nd International Athens print Fest
2009 Chairman of the 1st International Athens Print Fest
2008-2016 President of the Greek Printmakers’ Association
2003-2009: Curator at “Technohoros Art Gallery” Athens
Links:
http://www.eikastikon.gr/xaraktiki/stavrakantonakis_en.html