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La Approdo - The Landing Opera per l'Umanita Migrante di Costas Varotsos-Otranto - Italy

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Brief CV

1955

Born in Athens

Lives and works in Greece

Studies

Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome

Universita di Pescara ,Architetura

Distinctions

Fulbright Grant 1990-91,New York

Elected professor of the Aristotle University of Thessalonica in 1999

Member of the Swiss Engelberg Academy

Cavaliere dell’ Ordine della Stella della Solidarieta’ Italiana (2004)

Awards

Segno d’ Oro 2007 ( Italy)

Street Trend award 2004/2005 ( for the work Untitled 2001,Switzerland)

2004 Best sculpture,The Year in Review 2004,for his work Contiguous Currents

in Palm Beach,Florida,USA

Public Collections (Selection)

Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland

Mussee d’ Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain,Nice,France

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

“Untitled”, Mc Cormick Center, Chicago, USA, public space

“La Morgia”, Community of Gessopalena, Italy, public space

”Untitled”, Piazza Benefica, Turin, Italy, public space

”Untitled”, Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C., USA, public space

Principal Exhibitions (Selection)

1981 Gallery 2000, Bologna, Italy

1982 Europalia ’82,Athens Greece-ICC Antwerpen, Belgium

1987 Biennale of Sao Paulo,Brazil

1989 Deste Foundation,Athens,

Greece

1990 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art,Thessaloniki,Greece

1991 Giorgio Persano Gallery,Milano,Italy

1992 De Europa, Athens,Rome, De Europa,Rome,Italy

Leiman gallery New York,USA

Arco,Madrid,Spain
1992 Biennale of Venice, Italian Pavilion

1995 Biennale of Venice,Artelaguna,Italian Pavillion

Giorgio Persano Gallery,Torino,Italy

1998 “Horizons”,MUHKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

1999 Biennale of Venice, Greek Pavilion

2004 “Transcultures” National Museum Of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

2007 Future through the past, Benaki Museum,Athens,Greece

Works in Public Space (Selection)

1983 The Poet ,Nicosia, Cyprus, public artwork

1988-1994 The Runner, Athens, Greece

1996-97 La Morgia, Community of Gessopalena, Italy

1997 Untitled, Mc Cormick Center, Chicago, USA

1999 Untitled, Piazza Benefica, Turin, Italy

2001 Untitled,Butzberg,Switzerland

2003 Untitled,Agios Ioannis Rentis central square, Athens,Greece

Contiguous Currents, City Hall ,Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA

Untitled, Washington Covnention Center, Washington DC, USA

2004 Untitled,façade of the 166 PireosSt.building,Pantheon,Athens,Greece

Labyrinth,Arco 2004,Madrid,Spain

Untitled, Doukissis Plakentias Metro station, Athens, Greece
2006 Horizon 4,Certosa di Padula, Salerno,Italy

Untitled, Bernstrasse, Steffisburg, Switzerland

2007 Horizon-Geraki, Geraki,Sparta,Laconia,Greece

2008 ORIZON 2008, Murano Hotel,Tacoma(Seattle), Washington,USA

Untitled 2008,Thermi central square,Thermi,Thessaloniki,Greece

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