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Artist Statement:
‘Urban Behaviours’ > ‘ÁóôéęÝň
ÓőěđĺńéöďńÝň’
‘Comportamientos Urbanos’
2007/2008
Catalogue 2/2008 ATHENS
Behaviours are defined and
formed within the time they
occur as well as the cultural,
political and “arbitrary”
conjunctures of our developing
civilization. Accepted or not,
depending on the longitude and
latitude they appear, the
material of their clothing,
the accent of the protagonists
or the social codes, they
never fail to reflect the
individuals and define class,
roles, values and missions,
ethical or unethical, in our
virtually “Roman” society.
Karakatsanis approaches this
reality in an unadorned,
straightforward and caustic
manner. Vanity, carnalism and
mixing of values reflect in
the eyes and the bodies of the
assembled people who
constitute the body of his
work whereas the repeated
presence of the chair refers
to the urban environment.
His subject matter is
realization, deadlock and
hypocrisy, with which, without
any trace of intellectualism,
he expresses his anguish using
very few materials. He does
not suggest a solution, yet he
demonstrates a mirror in which
we can all see our real self
or our innermost fantasies, if
we so wish.
The middle class, particularly
that of the western world, has
led people’s perspective
towards a comfortable life,
aesthetically more decent
and...
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Artist Galleries:
ekfrasi-yianna grammatopoulou,
Athens, Greece
T: +30-210 3607598
info@ekfrasi-art.gr
Astrolavos Art Galleries,
Athens & Piraeus, Greece
T: +30-2107221200, 4
Email:gallery@astrolavos.gr
Galerie Zita-Mi, Thessaloniki,
Greece
T: +30-2310270636
Gallery Chrysa, Katerini,
Greece
T: +30-2351073252
Email: info@gallerychrysa.gr
Trigono Gallery,
Kifissia/Athens, ...
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Artist Reviews:
Reviews - Critics –
Bibliography - Catalogues
(s.e) Solo Exhibitions (g.e)
Group Exhibitions
• mag. ECHOS & Hi Fi, Athens,
11/81
• catalogue g.e- 8th Bienal
Internacional del Deporte en
las
Bellas Artes, Madrid,
82
• N.Grigorakis, ‘V.
Karakatsanis’, mag. Ikastika
(43-45),
Athens, 85
• cataloque s.e- ‘Aragün 249’
Kifissia,...
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Collections:
Collections - Museums
• Municipal Art Gallery of
Rhodes – Museum of Modern
Greek Art, Rhodes, Greece
• Orthodox Academy of Crete,
Hania, Greece
• Municipal Art Gallery of
Corfu, Corfu, Greece
• Fundaciün FPPU, Montevideo,
Uruguay
• Fundaciün Joan Mirü, Parc de
Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain
• Palacio de Cristal, Retiro,
Madrid, Spain
• E & Cultural Department...
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Commissions:
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Exhibitions for Vassilis Karakatsanis:
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Solo Exhibitions
2009
Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
Tsatsis Projects/Artforum, Thessaloniki, Greece
2008
ekfrasi-yianna grammatopoulou, Athens, Greece
2007
Galerie Argo, Nicosia, Cyprus
Atrion, Heraklio/Crete, Greece
Architecture Studio Zoe Antoniadi, Athens, Greece
2006
Galerie Christina Karella, Athens, Greece
Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
Lucia Vassiliadis, Patmos, Greece
Trigono Gallery, Kifissia/Athens, Greece
2005
Galerie Zita-Mi, Thessaloniki, Greece
Astrolavos Art Galleries, Athens, Greece
ArtSpace Gallery, Santorini, Greece
2004
Galerie Minima, Mykonos, Greece
Silogi 12, Spetses, Greece
2003
Epoches Art Gallery, Kifissia/Athens, Greece
Cycladian Pinacotheque, Hermoupolis/Syros, Greece
Galerie Minima, Mykonos, Greece
2002
Galerie Argo, Athens, Greece
Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
Galerie Argo, Nicosia, Cyprus
2001
Epoches Art Gallery, Kifissia/Athens, Greece
Chrysa Art Gallery, Katerini, Greece
Prisma Art Gallery, Livadia, Greece
1999
Galerie Minima, Mykonos, Greece
Asaya, Glyfada/Athens, Greece
Espace Kreonidis, Athens, Greece
Galerie Argo, Nicosia, Cyprus
Pantarei Art Seminyak, Kuta/Bali, Indonesia
Galerie Scorpios, Trikala, Greece
Galeria Berruete Regoyos, Madrid, Spain
1997
Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus
Galerie Amimoni, Ioannina, Greece
Kreonidis Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
Vicky Dracos Contemporary Art, Portes, Athens, Greece
1996
Kreonidis Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
Kreonidis Art Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
Art Gallery Hermoupolis, Hermoupolis/Syros, Greece
Galerie Argo, Nicosia, Cyprus
1995
Galerie Argo, Nicosia, Cyprus
1994
Art Gallery Hermoupolis, Hermoupolis/Syros, Greece
1993
Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Galerie Desmos, Heraklio, Greece
1992
Loulaki Gallery, Hydra, Greece
Vicky Dracos Contemporary Art, PDR, Athens, Greece
1991
Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Galerie K7, Thessaloniki, Greece
Villa Eolos, Mykonos, Greece
Galerie Titanium, Athens, Greece
1990
Galerie K7, Thessaloniki, Greece
Galerie Opsis, Mykonos, Greece
European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Delphi, Greece
Galleria Fontanella Borghese, Rome, Italy
1989
Galerie Gisela Bollhagen, Kunstcentrum Alte Molkerei, Worpswede/Bremen, Germany
Galerie Meissner, Kempinski Atlantic, Hamburg, Germany
To Trito Mati Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
1988
Loulaki Gallery, Hydra, Greece
1987
Municipal Gallery, Corfu, Greece
Epoches Art Gallery, Kifissia/Athens, Greece
Trigono Gallery, Kifissia/Athens, Greece
1986
Galerie Artio, Athens, Greece
Galeria Joan Oliver, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1985
Iakinthos Art Gallery, Kifissia/Athens, Greece
Municipal Gallery – Museum of Modern Greek Art, Rhodes,Greece
1983
Instituto Cultural Espanol, Reina Sofia, Athens, Greece
1982
Instituto Cultural Espanol, Reina Sofia, Athens, Greece
Participation in Art Fairs & International exhibitions
2009
1st Art Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania
2007
11th Art Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
16th Europ’ART, Geneva, Switzerland
27th Stockholm Art Fair Stockholm,Sweden
2004
11th Art Athina 04, Athens, Greece
Diana Gallery, Athens - Epoches Art Gallery, Kifissia - Galerie Argo, Athens, Greece
2003
10th Art Athina 03, Athens, Greece
2002
Santa Croce in Fossabanda, Pisa, Italy
Terme Tamerici, Montecatini Terme, Italy
Castello Doria, Porto Venere, Italy
2001
Technopolis- Gazi, Athens, Greece
2000
Derek Johns LTD, London, England U.K.
1999
7th Art Athina 99, Athens, Greece
1994
8th International Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi,India
1991
BP Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1990
Sotheby’s, New York, U.S.A
BP Oil Europe, Brussels, Belgium
1988
Soviet Artists Cultural Union, EETE, Moscow, Russia
1987
Organization of the Port of Piraeus, OLP, Piraeus, Greece
EETE, (Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece), Sofia, Bulgaria
1986
Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
E & C Department, La Vella, Andorra
1985
Itinerant exhibition of FPPU (Familiares de Presos Politicos Uruguayos) Foundation of Montevideo, Uruguay in Thessaloniki & Heraklio, Greece - Lausanne, Bern & Geneva, Switzerland - Uppsala & Stockholm, Sweden – Montreal, Canada - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil- Caracas, Venezuela - Paris, France
1983
La Lonja, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1982
8th Bienal Internacional del Deporte en las Bellas Artes, Palacios de Exposiciones de El Retiro,Madrid, Spain
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