Oscar Hotels - Athens - Greece

Yannis Gaitis, famous for his anonymous men depicting the uniformity and sterility of mass living, was born in Athens in 1923 and has had a studio in Paris for the last 26 years of his life. His work was introduced in the United States in 1964 at the Carnegie International Exhibition in Pittsburgh. Since then, his blank-faced, look-alike figures have stood at attention in exhibitions both here and abroad, including the Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; Salon de Mai, Paris; Biennale, Sao Paulo; Muzej Savremene Umetnosti, Belgrade; Musee d’Art Moderne de Skopie, Yugoslavia; Des Centre Cultural des Beaux Arts, Fernand, France and Municipalite de Nikea, Athens.

Yannis Koutsouris was born in Aliartos, Viotia, in 1944. He studied at the A.T.I. (Doxiades) Institute, under A. Tassos, A. Asteriadis, I. Dekoulakos, G. Georgiadis and St. Lydakis. During the same period he had a three-year apprenticeship as an assistant to and student of Spyros Vassileiou. Also during his studies and until the end of the 60s he focused on painting and comics drawing. He also illustrated children's books while his main activity for about 30 years was the creation of animation films with production companies "Kounoupi" and "Quak". Since 2000 he has devoted himself exclusively to painting and sculpture. He is a member of the Greek Chamber of the Arts since 1973.

Solo Shows
2006 Fine Arts Kapopoulos, Alimos
2005 Titanium Gallery, Athens
2004 Prisma Art Gallery, Livadia

Select Group Shows
2008 Galerie Zygos, Athens
2006 Fine Arts Kapopoulos, Alimos
2006 Aigokeros Gallery, Athens
2004 Skoufa Art Gallery, Athens

Born in Corinthos, Greece, in 1949. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), under the supervision of Yannis Moralis and Nikos Nikolaou and continued his studied on a scholarship, at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, in Paris, (1979-1983). He lives and works in Paris.

One-man exhibitions (selection)

1984 Centre Culturel de Bretigny, France
?Kottis - Lambert?, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece
1987 ?Samy Kinge? Gallery, Paris, France
?La Cour 21?Gallery, Nantes, France
1990 Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece
?Samy Kinge? Gallery, Paris, France
1992 Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece
?Samy Kinge? Gallery, Paris, France
1993 Diaspro Art Center, Nicosia, Cyprus
1994 Centre d? Art de Flaine, France
1995 Artforum Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece
1997 ?Zina Athanasiadou? Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
1998 Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece
2000 ?Samy Kinge? Gallery, Paris, France
2001 ?Tzamia - Kristalla? Art Gallery, Chania, Crete, Greece
2002 Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece
2003 Retrospective exhibition, in the context of Ermoupolia 2003,
Syros, Greece

Group exhibitions (selection)

1981 ?Maison des Beaux Arts?, Paris, France
1982 Salon Realites Nouvelles, Paris, France
?Four Young Artists?, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece
1983 Salon Realites Nouvelles, Paris, France
1984 Salon de Montrouge, Paris, France
Biennale of Alexandria, Egypt
Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1985 National Gallery of Greece, Athens
Museum of Contemporary Art of Dunkerque, France
1986 Salon de Montrouge, Paris, France
1987 Pieridis Gallery, Athens, Greece
1988 FIAC Paris, Paris, France, with ?Samy Kinge? Gallery
1989 Biennale de Jeunes, Cannes, France
1991 BIAF, Barcelona, Spain, with ?Samy Kinge? Gallery
1994 FIAC Paris, Paris, France, with ?Samy Kinge? Gallery
1995 FIAC Paris, Paris, France, with Zoumboulakis Galleries
?Summer in the Mediterranean?, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania
2003 ?5 painters in search of a writer?, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece
2004 ?Tonight - Tonight?, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece
?Summer Landscapes?, Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens, Greece / ?Melina Merkouri? Art Gallery, Hydra, Greece

Dimitris Mytaras is a Greek artist born in 1934 and is considered one of the important Greek painters of the 20th century.

His work is mainly inspired by the human figure, and a combination of naturalism and expressionism. From the 1960s onward, Mytaras moved in the direction of Critical Realism, while from 1975 an expressionistic approach became more and more marked in his output.

From 1953 till 1957, Mytaras studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Yiannis Moralis. Later on he studied stage design at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. From 1964 till 1972, he directed the Interior Decoration Workshop of the Athens Technological Institute. Since 1975 he has been teaching at the Painting Workshop of the Athens School of Fine Arts. Mytaras has participated in more than 30 international group shows, including the 1972 Venice Biennale.[2]

Works
During the time of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974, Mytaras sought to comment critically on Greek life through a series of realistic works entitled Photographic Documents. In later life he turned towards classical themes. Mytaras was also selected to create one of the official posters for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.

Thanos Tsingos (1914-1965) (b Eleusis, 19 Aug 1914; d Athens, 26 Jan 1965). Greek painter, stage designer and architect. He studied architecture at the National Technical University in Athens (1931–6). From 1937 to 1939 he worked as an architect. During the second world war he joined the Greek army, serving first in Greece and later in the Middle East. He was imprisoned and sentenced to death for his participation in the Middle East coup, but was pardoned in 1945–6. He moved to Brazil in 1947, where he worked with the architects Oscar Niemeyer, Lucio Costa and Palumbo on the plans of Brasilia; in the same year he worked in Paris on the development of St Cloud. From 1948 to 1961 he lived in Paris, where he painted and made stage designs and costumes (1948–55) for the theatre founded by him and his wife Christine, a leading actress of the avant-garde. In 1953 he had his first one-man show at the Studio Facchetti in Paris; this was followed by others, notably at the Galerie Iris Clert (1956). Between 1961 and 1965 he was mostly in Greece and exhibited in Athens, for example at the Zygos Gallery in 1963. Despite his association with the Ecole de Paris his painting defies classification. Its earlier phase shares the gestures and application of Action Painting, using intense colour in abstract compositions. A marked preference for dynamic and emotionally charged flowers, where the paint is also applied directly from the tube with movements of the whole body, is notable after 1955 and may be interpreted as a move towards the ‘New Figuration’.

30/07/1879 Yverdoy - 19/03/1927 Mavatech, ingenieur, architecte et peintre.

He painted landscapes and ethographical paintings. He travellled to Greek mainland, Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Morocco, Egypt. He executed several works including monumental scenery and ancient monuments. He was in love with Greece. He traveled several times and pianted for important European collectors. He studied painting in his youth at the ecole des Beusx Arts. He also studied architecture and mechanic. Many of his works can be found at very important museums around the world including France, Italy, Greece, Austria, Belgium and at important private collections

Plans-masse de l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 - Defrasse Alphonse-Alexandre (1860-1939)
Exposition Universelle de 1900 , faηade principale Palais central ; Galerie des Nations - Defrasse Alphonse-Alexandre (1860-1939)
Vue d'ensemble de l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 - Defrasse Alphonse-Alexandre (1860-1939)
Projet pour l'Exposition Universelle de 1900: faηade latιrale d'un palais central du Champ de Mars - Defrasse Alphonse-Alexandre (1860-1939)
- Defrasse Alphonse-Alexandre (1860-1939)
Plan Gιnιral de l'Exposition universelle de 1900 - Defrasse Alphonse-Alexandre (1860-1939)
Exposition Universelle de 1900: Champs-Elysιes et esplanade des Invalides - Defrasse Alphonse-Alexandre (1860-1939)
Coupe de la galerie des Nations ΰ l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 - Defrasse Alphonse-Alexandre (1860-1939)
- Defrasse Alphonse-Alexandre (1860-1939)
Projet pour les bβtiments de l'Exposition Universelle de 1900 : Coupe sur la galerie des Nations - Defrasse Alphonse-Alexandre (1860-1939)

Angelos Giallina (1857 Corfu - 1939) studied landscape painting for two years at the Academy of Venice under Dom. Bresolin. Thereafter he studied watercolor painting in Naples at the Instituto d.B. Arti under Consalvo Carelli and Gabrielli Smargiassi. Giallina then moved back to his native Corfu where he was the most popular watercolor landscape artist especially known for his views of Corfu and Athens. He also made many trips abroad and painted views of Italy, France, England, Austria and Turkey. The artist exhibited a few times in London, Berlin and Amsterdam, and participated in the Parisian Centenale of 1900. He received regularly commissions from various European courts: from kingdoms of Greece, England, Italy, Romania, Saxony and Austria.

Works by Giallina achieve remarkable prices at the international art auction market