Artist: Vassilis Karakatsanis / Βασίλης Καρακατσάνης

About the Artist

Vassilis Karakatsanis (born 1957, Athens/Greece) lives and works in Athens. He studied at Athens and Barcelona Graduate Schools of Fine Arts, Painting, Stage Design, Book Art and Theory of Art, with scholarships by the IKY, (Greek State Scholarship Foundation) & the Spanish Government.

He studied also at Centro Europeo of Venice, Maintenance of Architectural Monuments, with scholarship by the European Council. He has exhibited his work (102 solo exhibitions) in Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Ecuador, Turkey, Denmark, U.A.E. and Germany.

His thematic choices and his personal artistic vocabulary are informed by his experience and observation of the surrounding world. He organizes his exhibitions by using a theatrical attitude: he transforms the mundane every day objects into structural elements of his work. He uses a clean and rich color palette and vivid contrasts. He creates installations by using elements from the existing three dimensional spaces and by transforming them into art forms. He researches with sensitivity the limits between reality and illusion. His works are in private & public collections in Greece and abroad.

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