sarantopoulou - SEM

CHRISTINA
SARANTOPOULOU
(1952)
L
’ensemble de l’œuvre de Christina Sarantopoulou
représente ce processus de recherche interne et continuel
au travers duquel elle essaie de trouver une harmonie entre
tous les différents éléments de l’univers tel qu’elle le perçoit.
d’empreintes humaines. Les surfaces métalliques rigides
sont percées afin de donner cette impression de formes aux
allures de labyrinthe que l’on peut observer sur la main de
chaque être humain et qui sont indicateurs non seulement
du sens du toucher mais aussi de l’identité de chaque
individu. En utilisant les traces curvilignes et abstraites d’une
empreinte comme point de départ, Sarantopoulou explore
les frontières entre sculpture minimaliste et conceptuelle.
Par l’intermédiaire, principalement, de grandes formes
organiques (sphères, cubes et formes curvilignes) pour
lesquelles elle utilise des matériaux industriels rigides,
Sarantopoulou construit des environnements sculpturaux
dans lesquels la forme et l’espace interagissent avec grâce
pour créer des enchaînements de scènes fluides. Dans ses
créations, l’artiste intègre souvent un élément de mouvement
afin d’explorer la relation entre la sculpture et l’espace qui
l’entoure.
En agrandissant les empreintes digitales de personnes
qu’elle connaît à une échelle surnaturelle, l’artiste crée des
récits visuels dans lesquels « l’empreinte digitale devient
un symbole de réflexion sur l’existence humaine, une unité
de mesure des dimensions de la vie humaine, une toile qui
représente l’étendue humaine ».
Les formes géométriques standard de Sarantopoulou
revêtent une identité qui leur est donné par les marques
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Exposition individuelles
2003
2001
1996
1993
•Steps of life, Pieridis Museum, Athens, Greece
•The Chart of Athens - Identity, Art Athina, Ekfrasi Gallery, Athens, Greece
• Representation of Greece in the open-hair exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture of
European Union Countries, Kennedy Center, Washington DC, USA
•Microsculpture, Vorres Museum, Athens, Greece
•Unit, Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
Expositions de groupe (selection)
2005
2004
1999
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
•Exhibition of Greek contemporary painting and sculpture, Collection of Georges
Korstopoulos, Municipality of Zakynthos, Greece
• Sculpture and painting on the 20th century, Art City MIHALARIAS, Athens, Greece
• Art Athina, SKENDI Gallery, Athens, Greece
• Creation of the EURO-AMERICAN WOMEN’S COUNCIL Award, 4th Annual global
women’s Forum, GRANDE BRETAGNE, Athens, Greece
• Exhibition of the work Unit, Zappeion Megaron, Ministry of Public Works, Athens,
Greece
•Creation of the UNESCO Award by the Dodecanese UNESCO Club, Greece
•Investing in Art, CITIBANK, N.Psychiko, Athens, Greece
•One-act play, Santa Marina hotel, Mykonos, Greece
•Sculpture outdoor exhibition, Municipality of Ag. Anargyron, Athens, Greece
•The box, 24 Art Gallery, Athens, Greece sculpture outdoor exhibition, Ygeia hospital,
Athens, Greece
• Elements of contacts, CITIBANK, Athens, Greece
•Special event at the italian Consulate in Kos, sculptures of Christina Sarantopoulou are
offered to ATh. P. the Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios B on the occasion of his
formal visit to Dodecanese, Greece
•The syndrome of Odysseus, COMMERCIAL BANK, Vorres Museum Collection, Nicosia,
Cyprus
• Bridge – Greek and American Contemporary Artists, CITIBANK, Athens, Greece
•Greece in Antwerpen, Vorres Museum, Ministry of Culture, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Anonymorphy, Vicky Drakos Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
•The Aluminum of Greece, Mediterranean Center, Athens, Greece
•Visual Art puzzle, 42 artists, Zappeion Megaron, organized by Vicky Drakos, Athens,
Greece Pleiades Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
• Contemporary Greek Sculpture, Maison de l’architecture, Paris, France
•Proposal regarding a contemporary collection, Vicky Drakos, Contemporary Art Center,
Athens, Greece
•The female figure in Art, Karavia Beach Hotel, Kos, Greece
•Cities- Nations- Peoples, Presentation at the French Embassy, Athens, Greece
•Post-industrial Environment, Pierides Gallery, Collection, Lavrion, Attica, Greece
•Pleiades Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
• Sculptors, plastic metamorphosis, Korais Street, Municipality of Athens, Greece
Municipality of Nauplia, Nauplia, Greece
•Bullet-proof, Polymorphy B’, Aeolos Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
•Contemporary Trends in sculpture, Athens Conservatory, Athens, Greece
•Plastic Lineroutes, Dromena ’88, Sculpture Installation with the sponsorship of the
Municipality of Athens, Athens Municipality of Nauplia, Summer ’88, Nauplia, Greece
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1987
1986
1984
•Polymorphy D’, Elephtheria Park, Bullet-proof, Athens, Greece
•House of Cyprus, Athens, Greece
•Opus 39 Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
•Epoches Art Gallery, microsculpture ’88, Athens, Greece
•Nauplia Art Gallery, Nauplia, Greece
•Panhellenic Exhibition, Ministry of Culture, Athens, Greece
•Contemporary sculpture in public spaces, Athens Conservatory, Greece
•Woman and Art, secretariat General for Equality, Kostis Palamas Building, Athens,
Greece
•Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
•Piraeus Electrical Train station, “Articles”, Performance, Piraeus, Greece
•Pleiades, Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
• Sculpture – Drawing, Athens Conservatory, Athens, Greece
• Contemporary Greek sculpture, Athens 150 years, National Garden, Ministry of Culture,
Athens, Greece
Oeuvres dans l’espace publique
2010
2008
2004
2003
2000
1998
1995
1993
1989
• Installation, Kopelouzos Museum, Athens, Greece
• Intervention, Ag. ioannis Metro station, Athens, Greece
• Trilogy of Argonautic Expedition, Argos, The Ark, The Argonauts, Port of Volos,
Municipality of Volos, Olympic City, Greece
• Intervention, Elies hotel, sifnos, Greece
• Step, Vas. sofias Avenue, Kolonaki Business Center, Athens, Greece
• Link, Greek Embassy, hague, Netherlands
• Irodion hotel, Athens, Greece
• Communication Transmission, Municipality of Lipsi, Dodecanese, Greece
• Monas, Municipality of Calaf, Barcelona, Spain
• Cosmos, Municipality of Peania, Attika, Greece
• Intervention, Kifissias Avenue, Municipality of Athens, Greece
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Christina SARANTOPOULOU
Personal Journeys, 2010
55 cm diameter
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