Wednesday, May 28, 2008

new exhibition - the invitation



Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Title: “Refugee Solidarity Chain”
Call for mail art

We call on the artists of the world to participate with their work in the mail art project “Refugee Solidarity Chain”.

Help us raise awareness on the needs of refugees and asylum seekers in Greece. Be a ring in the Refugee Solidarity Chain with your work and help us raise funds to support these people!
Refugee is “a person who due to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable to or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country[1]”.
Refugees are not immigrants who, legally or not, leave their countries voluntarily in order to improve their standard of living. Refugees arrive in Greece in a state of desperation, often abandoning their families in order to escape the danger and having lived through traumatic experiences, having seen family members, friends, and co-workers imprisoned or even executed.
Moreover, they deal with very serious survival problems, because they are deprived of funds, familial and social ties, and communication due to linguistic and cultural differences.
The support of these people is the main idea behind this project, organized by the Greek Council for Refugees (http://www.gcr.gr/ ), a Non Governmental Organization founded in 1989 to provide legal and psychosocial aid to refugees and asylum seekers who live in Greece. The Union of past refugees from “Black Sea- Pontus” of Elassona responded to the Council’s call for help, with the sensitivity and awareness of what really means to be a refugee, as they also were refugees some years ago.
Please send us your work with:
Dimensions: 10 x 15, A5, A4
Material: painting, engraving, digital art, artistic photo.
No returns, no fees.
All work be exposed, in Art Gallery in Athens
Doc. to all
Deadline: 30 October 2007
All works must be sent to:
Dr. Karipidis Giannis
6 Oktovriou 113
40200 Elassona – Greece
E-mail: kaelde@yahoo.gr

The painter & mail artist Thomai Kontou is the art director and curator of this project.
E-mail: uxa53@yahoo.gr
thomaikontou@gmail.gr

Web Exhibition: http://mailart-greece-refugees.blogspot.com/

There will be an exhibition of all the art works, and all funds raised by the sales will be donated to GCR, for support to the refugees who live in Greece.
You will receive more detailed information about the date and the place of the exhibition in the coming weeks.



Thursday, March 27, 2008

NEW EXHIBITION

Friends artists of mail art, I am pleased to announce that three exhibitions of: “1 st mail art Greek biennale”, will be exhibited in the Municipal Gallery Neas Ionias - Volos on 31 May to 25 June 2008. We'll soon know what address you can see the exhibition. we will be in touch .
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Amis des artistes du mail art, je suis heureux d’annoncer que de trois expositions : « 1 er mail biennale de l’art grec », seront exposés dans la Galerie Municipale Neas Ionias - Volos le 31 Mai au 25 Juin 2008. Nous allons bientôt savoir quelle adresse vous pouvez voir l’exposition. nous serons en contact.
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Vrienden kunstenaars van de mail art, ik ben blij te kunnen aankondigen dat er drie tentoonstellingen van: "1 e mail art Griekse biënnale", zullen worden tentoongesteld in het Stedelijk Gallery Neas Ionias - Volos op 31 mei tot 25 juni 2008. We zullen snel weten wat het adres ziet u de tentoonstelling. Wij zullen in contact.
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Amici artisti di mail art, sono lieto di annunciare che tre mostre di: “1 ° mail arte greca Biennale”, saranno esposte nella Galleria Comunale Neas IONIAS – Volos il 31 maggio al 25 giugno 2008. Ti presto sapranno quale indirizzo si può vedere la mostra. Saremo in contatto.
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Amigos artistas de arte correo, me complace anunciar que tres exposiciones de: "1 ° de correo Bienal de arte griego", serán exhibidos en la Galería Municipal de NEAS Ionias - Volos, el 31 de mayo al 25 de junio de 2008. Vamos a saber pronto qué dirección se puede ver la exposición. nos pondremos en contacto.
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Amigos artistas do correio arte, tenho o prazer de anunciar que três das exposições: "1 ª Bienal mail arte grego", serão exibidas na Galeria Municipal NEAS Ionias - Volos em 31 de maio a 25 de Junho de 2008. Iremos logo saber o endereço que você poderá ver a exposição. vamos estar em contato.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Friend’s artists,
I thank you all from depths of my heart, for the correspondence, and your work that you sent.
The exhibition was realised in the Municipal Art gallery of Larissa - Museum G.I. Katsigra, marked very big success and her duration was two months.
The persons that him visited, thousands, a lot of schools and small children.
Photographs of openings and publications of greek newspapers you can see in:
http://a-mailart-greek-biennale-larissa-2007.blogspot.com/
I inform you also that the exhibition is prepared it travels also in other arts gallery of big cities of Greece.
I thank you once again,
We will be in touch.
Thomai Kontou
Curator of the project

List of Participating Artists

In the project Refugee Solidarity Chain, took part 195 artists, from 27 countries of planet.

List of Participating Artists

1_Greece
1 Katerina Xarchopoulou
2 Efi Bizou Chlorokosta
3 Aristotelis Triantis
4 Maria – Theodora Dimaki
5 Chamopoulou Rena
6 Kalafati Christina
7 Papadimitropoulou Zoe
8 Kostas Evangelatos
9 Petala Eftihia
10 Eirini Spyridaki
11 Gathi Gioula
12 Charalabidis Theodoros
13 Andritsis Titania
14 Panagiotou Maria
15 Alexis Patsis
16 Litsa Apostolidou
17 Katerina Nikoltsou
18 Baziotou Helen
19 Eugenia Peza – Psaroni
20 Papadimos Stamatis
21 Spetsiotakis Antonis
22 Voula Apostolou
23 Margarita Pipila
24 Zoi Papazisoglou
25 Katerina Axugka
26 Vasia Charisi
27 Thomas Liolios
28 Galatos Stavros
29 Varnas Kostas
30 Pliota – Peraki Tzoulia
31 Petrikis Sotiris
32 Mpliatsiou Fotini
33 Aria Komianou
34 Nastos Vasilis
35 Andoniadis Christos
36 Regas Makropoulos
37 Ioanna Papachristou
38 Kontou Thomai
39 Kontogiannis Triantaphylos
40 Canuto Kallan
2_ITALY
1 Giovnni Strada da
2 Tiziana Baracchi
3 Bruno Chiarlone
3 Giuseppe Riccetti
4 Lunia Marchetti
5 Fabio Sassi
6 Natale Cuciniello
7 Alfonso Caccavale
8 Claudio Romeo
9 Basso Umberto S.
10 Carmelo Marchese
11 Nella Giambarresi
12 Anna Boschi
13 Antonio Sassu
14 Ruggero Maggi
15 Salvatore Starace
16 Roberto Scala
3- GERMANY
1 Henning Mittendorf
2 Horst Baur
3 Dragan Jukic
4- BELGIE
1 Barend G van der Gracht
5- AUSTRIA
1 Wilhelm Schramm
6 - IRELAND
1 Patrick Anderson Mc Quoid
2 Marina Miletic
7_FINLAND
1 Paul Tiilila
8- NORWAY
1 Jaromir Svozilik
9 _FRANCE
1 ZAV
2 Denis Charmot
3 Michel Della Vedova
4 Daniel Daligand
10_SPAIN
1 Carlos Botana
2 Miguel Jimenez
3 Jose Blanco
4 Patxi Serrano
5 Jaime Rodríguez
6 Felipe Lamadrid
7 Agustin Calvo Galan
8 Antonio Orihuela
9 Daniel de Cula
11_PORTUGAL
1 Anabela G & Bruno C
12_U.S.A.
1 Chevalier Daniel C. Boyer
2 Anne Braunshweig
3 dr. Stephen Perkins
4 Roger McCluner
5 Annie
13_ARGENTINA
1 Hilda Paz
14_BRAZIL
1 William A.
2 Dorian Ribas Marinho
3 Nadia Poltosi
4 Gastao de Magalhaes
5 Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas
6 Roberto Keppler
15_URUGUAY
1 Clemente Padin
2 Juan Angel Italiand
16 VENEZUELA
1 Angel Bortot
17_TAHITI
1 Chantal Casamayor de Planta
18_TURKEY
1 Ferruh Alisir
2 Senol Sak
19_ Malaysia
1 Suzzlee Ibrahim
2 ASLIZA ARIS
3 A Fauzi A Hamzah
4 Wan Mohd Zulkifle
5 Danny Hilman
6 Nadhirah Anwar
7 Hanny Qarera
8 Nazirah M Ba’ai
9 Syafiq Fawwaz
10 M Safwan Ahmad
11 Mohamad Tirani
12 M Bakir Baharom
13 Danny Hidzwan
14 Hafiz Yahaya
15 Bakhtiar Naim
16 Mastura M Japit
17 Anissa A Aziz
20- Japan
1 Ryosuke Cohen
2 Keiichi Nakamura
3 Kazuko Ogawa
21 KOREA
1 Yeong T. Son
2 Yun – Jung Seo
22 Honduras
1 Jorge Restrepo
23 POLAND
1 Pawel Petasz
24 Colombia
1 Tulio Restrepo
25 Netherlands
1 Johannes Gerard
26 Danmark
1 Steen Krarup
Canuto Kallan
27 Cyprus
1 Maria Kyprianou
2 Avraam konstantinou

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Kontou Thomai from Greece


Kontou Thomai from Greece


Papachristou Ioanna from Greece


Regas Makropoulos from Greece


Andoniadis Christos from Greece


Nastos Vasilis from Greece


Felipe Lamadrid from Spain


Daniel de Cula from Spain


Daniel de Cula from Spain


Daniel de Cula from Spain


Antonio Orihuela from Spain


Aria Komianou from Greece


Maria Kyprianou from Cyprus


Maria Kyprianou from Cyprus


Mpliatsiou Fotini from Greece


Mpliatsiou Fotini from Greece


Mpliatsiou Fotini from Greece


Mpliatsiou Fotini from Greece


Steen Krarup from Danmark


Petrikis Sotiris from Greece


Pliota Peraki Tzoulia from Greece


Varnas Kostas from Larissa Greece


Galatos Stavros from Elassona Greece


Dragan Jukic from Germany


Kazuko Ogawa from Japan


Yun Jung Seo from Korea


Thomas Liolios from Elassona Greece


Thomas Liolios from Elassona Greece


Thomas Liolios from Elassona Greece


Vasia Charisi Greece


Katerina Axugka from Greece