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Takis
Takis, born October 29, 1925 in Athens, Greece, under the name Panayótis Vassilákis (in modern Greek: Παναγιώτης Βασιλάκης) and died August 9, 2019 in the same city, is a Greek sculptor, acting mainly in the field of kinetic art.
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Yannis Gaitis
Born in Athens, Yannis Gaïtis (1923 - 1984) is a popular Greek painter who left behind an immense quantity of works throughout the world. He kept a playful and mischievous spirit throughout his life which he would later communicate to his figures, so typical of his art.
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Costas Tscoclis
Costas Tsoclis is a Greek Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1930.
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Yiánnis Móralis
Born on April 23 / May 6, 1916 in Arta. Yannis Moralis was a multifaceted art figure who was awarded several distinctions in Greece and abroad. He was among the leading figures of twentieth-century Greek art — a great painter, sculptor, printmaker, stage designer and teacher whose works reflect the wealth of his visual imagination and the broad spectrum of his quests.
His painting is a fundamental expression of “Greek-style modernism” and his overall contribution to Greek art is seminal and indisputable.
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Alékos Fassianós
Alékos Fassianós, born December 13, 1935 in Athens and died January 16, 2022, is a Greek painter. He is internationally recognized for his figurative paintings, representing the contemporary world in a mythological manner.
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John Christoforou
John Christoforou was born in 1921 in London to Greek parents from Smyrna. In 1935 he entered the Athens Academy of Fine Arts. Over the course of the next sixty-two years he presented his work in over fifty solo exhibitions and participated in more than one-hundred group exhibitions throughout the world.
John Christoforou is recognized as an important pioneer of the Nouvelle Figuration (New Figuration), an international movement that emerged in the early 1960’s from the abstract art movements of the previous decade and included leading artists such as Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning.
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Georges Zongolopoulos
Greek artist, born March 1, 1903 in Athens and died May 11, 2004, married to the artist Eleni Paschalidou-Zongolopoulou (1909-1991).
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Opy Zouni
Opy Sarpaki Zouni was born in Cairo in 1941. Her family roots originate in Crete and Santorini. She lived and worked since 1963 in Athens. She has died on 5th December 2008.
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Yánnis Spyrópoulos
Yannis Spyropoulos (1912 - 1990). Andros Landscape I, 1954. Oil on canvas, 45 x 55 cm. At The National Gallery, Alexandros Soutsos Museum.
Mountain landscape in Andros I, 1954. Oil on paper. At Vorres Museum.
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Michael Tombros
Michael or Michalis Tombros (1889–1974) was a Greek sculptor who was influential in introducing avant-garde styles into Greece.
Michael Tombros was born in Athens in 1889, son of a marble sculptor from Korthio, Andros island.
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Pavlos (Dionyssopoulos)
Pavlos Dionyssopoulos known as Pavlos, born in Filiatra in 1930 and died on June 14, 2019 in Athens, Greece, is a Greek visual artist, painter, sculptor who lived most of his life in Paris, France.
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Jannis Kounellis
Born in 1936 in Piraeus, Jannis Kounellis settled in Rome in 1956, where he studied in the Academy of Fine Arts and in the ’60s already emerged as one of the protagonists of the Arte Povera movement in Italy. By using materials such as iron, carbon, fire, wood, stone etc he promotes through his wall constructions and installations the primordial poetical nature of things and their political – cultural depth.
Jannis Kounellis, Untitled (Cavalli), 1967, 12 horses, installation view at Galleria L’attico, Rome, 1969.
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Vorres Museum, Athens
The Vorres Museum is the vision of Ian Vorres. The museum is dedicated to contemporary Greek art and folk art.
Located in Paiania in an area covering about 3 acres and is housed in a complex of buildings totaling 4,500 square meters, which is surrounded by extensive courtyards and gardens.
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Deste Foundation, Hydra
The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art is a non-profit institution established in Geneva in 1983 by collector Dakis Joannou. With exhibition spaces in Athens and Hydra.
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Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens
The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1979. With the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Andros.
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Theocharakis Foundation, Athens
The B & M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music was founded as a non-profit Foundation for the public benefit in 2004 and opened its gates to the public in December 2007. Through its Spyros Papaloukas permanent collection, it maintains a focus on Modernist art, while investigating its development over the centuries to the contemporary art world of today.
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EMST, Athens
The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) is permanently located at the former FIX brewery.