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GiotaVorgia
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[2012-06-01 07:41:33 +0000 UTC]
(United States)
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# Interests
Favorite visual artist: Antonis Papantoniou - Vim Viva, da Vinci, Lawrence Alma Tadema, VelasquezFavorite movies: Persuit of Happyness, Seven Pounds, Warrior
Favorite bands / musical artists: John Powel, John Borgia, Keiko Matsui, Willie & Lobbo, Bethoven
Favorite books: The secret, The peaceful warrior
Favorite writers: Dean Koontz
Favorite games: Puerto Rico, Katan
Other Interests: Music, Photography
# About me
Giota Vorgia was born in Athens, Greece.She studied and then taught visual arts in the Athens Borgias College of Fine Art – Design State University FINE ARTS Bolton, U.K. (BAC). She was also trained many years, in Painting and Theory of Color, in Dimitri Perdikidi's workshop. She studied Freehand drawing and Line / Technical drawing in the school of Plakas in Athens and Graphic Design in ΑΚΤΟ -Higher Diploma of Fine Arts, Middlesex University. She followed seminars on Art Education in Primary Schools in the School of Fine Arts in Athens.
She taught for a period of thirteen years design and painting in the Art Workshop (Ergastiri tis Technis) in Athens and she also taught graphic design in the college Intergraphics and she organized a series of special educative workshops in primary schools of Palaion Faleron and Halandri, Athens. She collaborated with the Greek newspaper Eleftherotypia, newspaper Exusia and Epsilon magazine. From 1998-2012 she worked for the company Kafkas Publications.
She has participated in many exhibitions. One of her latest participation was in the international exhibition FUOCO organized by the artistic association Arie Del Tempo in Genova, Italy, and in Arte Fiore in Sardinia which was exhibited in many countries of Europe. She has also participated in the 14th Arti Visive Biennale di Poesia in Alessandria, Italy. She is participating in Flag Art for the Olympic Spirit, UK embassy, June 2012, Beirut, Lebanon and Flag Art for Cultural Diversity Beirut Solidere Waterfront, under the patronage of UNESCO and Meadows Beirut, July 2012. Her latest participation was a solo exhibition at the 'Greece - Shape and Color' Festival which was organized by the artistic association 'Karma-Lappa' and was held at Spyros Louis Gallery at Marousi, Athens. There, she was honored by the Mayor of the Olympic Installations city as one of our most prominent and creative artists. As he said 'Artist Giota Vorgia is constantly involved in the cultural enhancement of our region through exhibitions of her exceptional paintings. She has also been constantly involved in the stimulation and development of the creative potential of our youth and children'.
Some of her works are in the Austin City Hall, Gargling Sky Municipal Collection of Gergeri Crete 09 and in the PAI 2010 collection of the Union of Cultural Associations of Evros, Greece.
Many of her works are in private collections in USA, Italy, Spain, Beirut, and Greece.
She lives in Austin Tx. She is married to the illustrator Antonis Papantoniou and she has three boys.
Statement
The theme that inspires me is the stone. I am inspired by the stability of the stone with the movement of the water that imperceptibly sculpts and morphs it in harmony with the mood of the sky and the play of light.
I am interested in conveying the pervasive sensation by walking on beaches, lost in colorful configurations, natural compositions fluctuating at every step, sucked by the beauty of the moment, in the persistent archetypal silence of the stone and the murmur of the sea. While stepping on pebbles I feel present, I am. There is tremendous beauty in ‘nowness’. ‘Kosmos’ in Greek, means ‘gem’ (Kosmema). To be present in the Kosmos is a gift. This bliss of Being in the world I feel and I want to capture in my paintings.
I always explore new combinations of shape and color to attract the viewer to this bright space of eternal moment which is always new. I usually prefer to work with large surfaces to expand and extend the experience of catharsis in the archetypal landscape where the viewer, the walker, is immersed...
Why I paint stones?
Beauty is in the simplest of things specifically in nature. Stones are hard organic material molded by time and highlighted by the fluctuating hues of its spatial environment. The affective way it keeps company with the surrounding larger stone lying next to it and with the gentle way it befriends a similar or tinier pebble is why I paint stones.
Rocks and pebbles are embraced by the life-giving sunlight, the lovely sandy beach, burning and soft, yearning to be refreshed by the wave that sometimes teases and sometimes falls in love with it. Through the passing of time, stones have seen the scenery change around them. They are the silent observers of a continuously altered world. Colorful pebbles are to be seen, touched and lifted by a gracious hand while thanking their maker for listening to their stories.
Each stone has a story. One only needs to remove ones thoughts and listen. Just be.
# Comments
Comments: 2
veroklotz thank you so much!
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