Vassilis Karakatsanis
Vassilis Karakatsanis was born in 1957 in Athens, Greece, where he lives and works. Between 1976 and 1984, he studied painting, stage design, book art and theory of art at the Athens and Barcelona Graduate Schools of Fine Arts, with scholarships by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation & the Spanish Government.
Further, in 1985 he studied at Centro Europeo of Venice, Conservation of Architectural Monuments, with scholarship by the European Council.
He has presented around 105 solo exhibitions in Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Ecuador, Turkey, Denmark, U.A.E. and Germany, and has participated in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs in Greece and abroad.
His chosen themes and his personal artistic vocabulary are inspired by his experience and observation of the surrounding world. Karakatsanis presents his exhibitions by using a theatrical attitude, transforming the mundane everyday objects into structural elements. He uses a clean and rich colour palette and vivid contrasts and creates installations by using elements from the existing three-dimensional spaces by turning them into art forms. He surveys with sensitivity the limits between reality and illusion.
Works of Karakatsanis are in private as well as in several public collections in Greece and abroad.
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