La Approdo - The Landing Opera per l'Umanita Migrante di Costas Varotsos
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Kyparisi,Ioannina,Greece,public artwork
2014
Brief CV
1955
Public Collections (Selection)
Lives and works in Greece
Studies
Universita di Pescara ,Architetura
Distinctions
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
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
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
2009 Genesis,Eugenides Foundation,Athens ,Greece
Gate of Aegina ,Aegina Island ,Greece
Untitled,Central Square of Veria,Veria,Greece
Contiguous Currents 2009,Onassis Foundation,Olympic Tower,New York ,USA
Gate of Aegina ,Aegina Island ,Greece
Untitled,Central Square of Veria,Veria,Greece
2010,The Moon of Alexandria, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria , Egypt
2011,Untitled,Peristeri,Athens ,Greece
Tension Energy, Luzerne, Switzerland, public artwork
Anelixis III , Modena , Italy,public artwork(under construction)
Horizons 2011, Drama , Greece
2012, L’Approdo, Otranto , Puglia , Italy
Kyparisi,Ioannina,Greece,public artwork
2015
La Luna 2015,Epanomi,Thessaloniki,Greece,public artwork
Untitled, Spetses, Greece, public artwork
2016
Orizzonte Due,University of Salerno,Fisciano,Italy,public artwork
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