The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture is proud to present the Personal Exhibition by artist Costas Evangelatos, titled “Conceptual Variations”. Opening on Wednesday, May 16th 2012, 20:30.
About the Artist
COSTAS EVANGELATOS
Artist and art theorist
Costas Evangelatos was born in Argostoli Cefalonia-Greece ( Nov.1957).
He studied law at National University of Athens, painting and aesthetic theory of modern art in Manhattan N.Y (University The New School). From 1986 until 1993 he was the artistic director of the DADA Gallery in Athens, and in 1990 founded the modern art group ART STUDIO “EST”.
Along with painting, has worked internationally in the fields of Performance, Body Art, Happening and Mail art. He has presented sections of his works in solo exhibitions in Athens, Rochester, New York City, Thessaloniki, Arezzo, Avignon, Chantilly, Paris, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Nicosia, etc.
He has participated in many group exhibitions and international artistic meetings in Paris, Barcelona, Warsaw, Gothenburg, Amiens, Rome, Moscow, Santiago, Buenos – Aires, New York, Los Angeles, etc. They have been published also books of him, aesthetic essays, poems in seven editions (“Apopeira” editions, Athens), lithographic works : bodygraphics (dada art gallery, Athens and BOA Editions N.Y), Conceptualizations, (galerie “F”), art books, calendars, poetry collections, etc.
He has lectured on art issues in Greece and abroad. He is member of scientific and artistic organizations and a senior member of the Greece’s Chamber of Fine Arts(1991).
His works are in collections of art, as in the Art Institute of the Central Bank of Greece, the “Museum of the City of Athens”, the Gallery of the Art History Museum in the National University of Athens, the –Macedonian Fine Art Union, the Gallery of the Macedonian Studies Society, the Municipal Gallery of Athens, the American College of Greece (ACG ART COLLECTION), the Photographic Archive of the Benaki Museum, the headquarters of the Greek Army Navy , the Art Foundation of Archbishop Makarios in Nicosia, the collection of Patriarchate of Alexandria, the Corfu Reading Society, the Ionian University in Corfu, the Municipal Gallery of Corfu, the Greek Embassy in Paris-France, the Greek and the Cypriot Consulate in Paris, the University FORDHAM at Lincoln Center, New York , as well as in foundations and many private collections in Greece, France and U.S.A.
Artist’s Website
The Planetary Collegium of the University of Plymouth, presented their Research program followed by an exhibition entitled “Art, Technology, Consciousness Research Poster Presentations” at the Center’s main exhibition area in Kefalonia island, between April 9th and May 25 2011.
