ANNA MARIA PAPADIMITRIOU
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A place may already be illuminated via its intention to move towards the light.
Studies
2000-2005 Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts studying under Professors Yannis Valavanidis and Mihalis Manousakis.
1992-1997 Athens School of Graphic Arts and Art Studies, Department of Interior Architecture and Industrial Design
Exhibitions
2024 ART ATHINA, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, Zappeion, Athens
2024 Beyond breathing we are a sequence of dives, Solo show, G.& E. Vati Art Gallery, Syros
2024 Pieces from the deep, Solo show, Plastico Gallery, Syros
2024 Shades from the Deep, Solo show, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2023 Greek Art over Decades - The Evolution, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2023 ART ATHINA, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, Zappeion, Greece
2022 Highlights, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2022 ART-ATHINA , International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, Zappeion, Greece
2022 Exclusives, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens Greece
2021 KRYPTON, Dipola Art Platform, Municipal Gallery of Chalkida, Greece
2021 LONDON ART BIENNALE, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK
2021 Exclusives, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2020 ART ATHINA, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2019 Highlights, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2019 ART ATHINA - International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens, Zappeion, Greece
2019 Exclusives, Astrolavos Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2018 SMALL PANORAMA OF MODERN GREEK ART, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2017 Highlights, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2017 ART ATHINA, International Contemporary Art Fair of Athens
2017 REQUIEM, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2016 Highlights, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2016 Oia Treasures Gallery, Oia, Santorini
2016 Exclusives, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2015 RED, Municipal Theater of Piraeus, Greece
2014 WINNER of the INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION "NEVERLAND", Exhibition, Cultureinside Gallery, Luxembourg
2014 CONTROVERSIAL, International exhibition of contemporary art - Villa Graziani, San Giustino, Italy
2013 Solo exhibition, Museum of Oil, Gatzea, Pelion, Greece
2010 LIGHTSCAPES / Δυνητικά ξέφωτα,Astrolavos Dexameni, Athens
2010 ArtSpace - Santorini
2008 Image – Space – Action 2, Technopolis of the Municipality of Athens
2007 CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT ARTISTS, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2006 Exclusives, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2006 Four new artists, S. Lazaridou Art Gallery, Kallithea
2006 Image - Space - Action, Chamber of Arts of Greece
2005 Ηighlights, Astrolavos Gallery, Athens
2005 Graduates of the IV Studio of Painting, Union of Graduates of the Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
2004 3rd Biennale of Students of the Greek Schools of Fine Arts, Creta Maris Hotel, Herakleion, Crete
2003 Department of Painting of the Athens School of Fine Arts, Municipal Gallery of Karditsa
2001 Livres d’Artistes - Texts and objects, Gallery “7”, Athens
We look like seas, we are bodies of water. With tangible surfaces and countless depths. Our existence is intertwined with a sequence of breaths. But beyond breathing, we are a sequence of dives. The inner self, a valuable field of inquiry, has infinite inner nuances and is potentially found in the deepest contents of the fluid watery space that houses the unconscious.
What do we do with what is not visible? If through sight we see what has form, how do we see the essence behind the form? How do we give clues to the Unseen? Obviously, these questions existed unconsciously when I was connected to a painting process that resembles the experience of successive dives into the depths of the Invisible. Putting aside the representation of the already visible, I chose research, improvisation, anxiety and ecstasy of the possible encounter with something unprecedented and revelatory. I have the feeling that I am exploring undefined inner landscapes on the edge of archetypal depths. Along the way I meet and record facts, findings, small truths in waiting. I find that what the conscious calls a finding, is an element already given, ready and independent of its possible recognition. If I decide to never dive, the element will continue to glow in its place, I myself will miss the encounter with it.
My works invite us to engage with them emotionally and sail alongside them, allowing them to enter us as an experience or simply as indications of an action. We may recognize something in them. Perhaps they make something of our Invisible visible. It is more likely that through free associations we will invest them with our own meaning. The works that move between Abstraction and Surrealism take on many meanings. They become a signifier that renews itself depending on who and when one interacts with them. The viewer becomes a participant and co-creator. This is the reason why they remain energetically alive no matter how many times we see them and evolve at the same time as us, creating occasions for new internal discussions.
Anna-Maria Papadimitriou
For further information, commissions and more discussion about my work, please contact me at
am.papad@gmail.com