The Artist
Biography
Kostis Georgiou was born in 1956. He presently lives and works in Athens, Greece.
1982-1986
Painting and sculpture at the University of fine arts in Athens with Pr. Mytaras, Pr. P. Panouryias and Pr. D. Kokkinides.
1985-1986
Royal College of Fine Arts in London with Professor Peter de Francia
1982-1988
Worked as stage designer in theatre and for the Greek television (ERT)
1988-1990
Taught painting and scenography at the L. Stavracos school of cinema in Athens
1999-2001
Wrote as "Kerdolagnos" for the weekly financial newspaper "Kerdos"-Sunday issue
Press & Reviews
A HELL WITH THE FEATURES OF HEAVEN
SPEECH MADE WITH THE VARNISHING OF THE EXPOSURE OF ART POINT INTERNATIONAL GALLERY, IN BELGIUM ON MARCH 27, 2004
WITHIN THE NATURAL FREQUENCIES OF COLOUR
THE RED OF THE BLACK
ΝΗ ΤΟΝ ΚΥΝΑ! "Melancholy is the felicity of sadness" V.Hugo
A fatal and luminous beauty - classic and contemporary elements in the work of Costis Georgiou
Costis Georgiou ? Bleeding of pictures
The never ending praise of shapes and color
Costis Georgiou in Granada. The colors of agony
Painting as an act of resistance
The dynamic of color and psyche in painting
The many faces of the swastika.
Costis Georgiou, The power of creating
Expressions of agony through steel.
A Rhapsody about nature. A retrospective exhibition of the sculptor Costis Georgiou at the "Titanium" Gallery. A sculptor-fighter who managed to escape the Sirens, like a new Ullyses, is calling his work in its plastic melody, a "Rhapsody of the present".
We live the era of fakes
I feel like doing charakiri
Explosive red and deep blue
Institutional art? The art of misleading or postnothing ideology?
Publications
Bibliography: Articles and interviews in newspapers, magazines and television.
A poetic approach the work of Kostis Georgiou, by the poet Dimitris Chistodoulou. Introduction to the catalogue for the artists exhibition at Ora Gallery, 1984.
Greek art in galleries abroad, article in the newspaper TA NEA, 26/9/90.
Personal interpretation. Article by Nelly Spiliopoulou in the magazine IDEES KAI LISEIS GIA TO SPITI, issue n.66 April 1990.
Passion of expression. Article in the newspaper EXORMISI, 29/1/90.
Georgiou in Titanium. Article in the Sunday newspaper TO VIMA, 28/1/90.
Three decades of three artists, by Dora Iliopoulou - Rogan. Article in the newspaper KATHIMERINI, Sunday issue, 11/2/90.
Kostis Georgiou at OSAKA TRIENNALE 90. Article in the newspaper MESIMVRINI, 23/11/90.
Photo - reportage in the French newspaper Midi Libre, 10/12/89.
The great art event. Photo - reportage in the magazine EIKONES, summer 87.
The mystery figures of Kostis Georgiou. Photo - reportage in the magazine ENA, 17/1/90.
Photo - reportage in the magazine AGORA, 11/1/90.
Photo - reportage in the magazine PLAYBOY, February 90.
The artists and his loneliness, by Diana Antonakatou. Article in the magazine POLITIKA THEMATA, 16/2/89.
Room painting, by Vivi Vasilopoulou. Article in the magazine ATHINORAMA, issue 696.
Kostis Georgiou s painting, by Chrisanthos Christou, academian and professor of History of Art. Introductory critique in the catalogue for the artists exhibition at Titaium Gallery.
Dialectic of speech and image, by Antonis Boulounzas, editor of the magazine ARTI. Introductory critique in the catalogue for the artists exhibition at Titanium Gallery.
Critique by A. Xidis in the magazine ANT1, 30/1/90.
Reference to Bouzianis, by Manos Stefanidis.
Friends of art in London, by M. Mathioudaki. Photo - reportage in the newspaper MESIMVRINI, 5/4/91.
An avande guarde point of view. Photo - reportage in the magazine EIKONES, 20/2/91.
Kostis Georgiou in London. Article in the newspaper MESIMVRINI, 28/3/91.
Kostis is international. Photo - reportage in the newspaper EL. TYPOS, 23/9/91.
Awards & Honors
1st PRIZE AT THE XX INTERNATIONAL PREMIO DI SULMONA - ITALY
SPECIAL DISTINCTION AT THE OSAKA TRIENNALE 93 - OSAKA - JAPAN
SPECIAL DISTINCTION - YOUNG EUROPEAN ARTISTS 1995 - BP COLLECTION - BRUSSELS - BELGIUM
SPECIAL PRIZE- YOUNG EUROPEAN ARTISTS 1992 - BP COLLECTION BRUSSELS - BELGIUM