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Dimitris Vavouras

Ptolemaida, Greece

Artist Statement

Nowadays he is a visual artist who is concerned with the idea of portrait and its tenor in the history of art, in a contemporary way. His artworks are primarily characterized as anthropocentric, most of them incorporate within them the notions of absence, memory and identity.

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Dimitris Vavouras's Portfolio

Dimitris Vavouras, Doppelgänger, 2017, oil on canvas, 40x40 cm
Dimitris Vavouras, End of an era, 2017, mixed media, 88x119 cm
Dimitris Vavouras, Under the skin, 2017, oil on canvas, 56x60 cm
Dimitris Vavouras, We forget more than we remember, 2017, oil on canvas 43x50 cm
Dimitris Vavouras, Your majesty, 2016, oil on canvas, 100x140 cm
Dimitris Vavouras, When the walls come down, 2016, oil on canvas, 35x50 cm
Dimitris Vavouras, No ordinary love, 2017, oil on canvas, 140x180 cm
Dimitris Vavouras, When God took you back, 2016, oil on canvas, 55x72 cm
Dimitris Vavouras, Untitled, 2016, oil on canvas, 150x160 cm
Dimitris Vavouras, The chagrin of creation, 2017, oil on canvas, 125x190 cm

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Artist Biography

Dimitris Vavouras was born in 1993 in Ptolemaida, Greece. During his childhood, he attended painting lessons at Th.Zyrpiadis' Studio. In 2017 he gratuated from the School of Fine Arts in Ioannina, Department of Fine Arts and Sciences of Art. He has participated in a few group exhibitions since 2015 until today.

2018
- CHEAPART Cyprus 2018, Evagoras Lanitis Center, Limassol - Cyprus
- Nothing is really Queered/Back to Athens 6, Old Athenian Paper Warehouse, Athens

2017
- 18th Student Bienalle of Fine Arts Schools in Greece, Thessaloniki Center of Contemporary Art - Warehouse B1, Thessaloniki
- Love - Photometria Awards 2017/ International Photography Festival, Cultural multiplex in old slaughterhouses, Ioannina
- Terra Ingognita/ Archaeological Dialogue 2017, Soufari Sarai, Ioannina
- National Identity/ Photocitizens International Photography Festival, Saligaros Gallery, Ioannina
- Hipnosedon | Booze :BaseGALLERY, Athens
- Contemporary Heritage | Booze :BaseGALLERY, Athens

2016
- Touch The Art/ An Exhibition with Tactile Museum-Education Actions , Municipal Art Gallery, Ioannina
- Project Proxy/ Thematics : Perspective & BlackDog, Loukoumi #10 - Athens
- Home- Photometria Awards 2016/ International Photography Festival, Cultural multiplex in old slaughterhouses , Ioannina
- Project Unicorn/ Untagged, Thessaloniki Pride Festival, Thessaloniki
- International Rethink Digital Art Festival, House of Culture
- Rethymno,Crete
- KodraFresh 2016/ MindTheGap, Action Field Kodra, Thessaloniki
- Re-culture 4/ Art Not Art/ SexoMania
- The full spectrum of love in contemporary art, Patras International Art Festival, Patra
- ABIO, Beton7 Gallery - Athens
- In Art , ZinaAthanassiadouGallery - Thessaloniki

2015
- InArt, ZinaAthanassiadouGallery - Thessaloniki

Publications
Average Art Magazine (London), January 2017. Print
Phroom Magazine ( Milano – Italy), January 2017
Average Art Magazine (London), February 2017. Print

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