Giannis Dendrinos

Athens, Attika, Greece

About Giannis Dendrinos

Giannis Dendrinos was born in 1978 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, and lived there until the age of 12. He studied in Athens to be an automation technician (2003), and then art restoration (2006). Self-taught in metal sculpture, he lives and works in Athens -where he has his workshop since 2000- both as an artist and an automation technician. The raw material he uses for his artworks is industrial metallic spare parts. The subjects that inspire him are either human-centered, such as motherhood, or connected to the nature of the material he uses, originating from the contemporary industrial society. His work focuses on the position and relation of Man with the modern society he lives in, as well as the contradiction between human nature and the automated society. In 2015, he founded everythinginart.com, an on-line art gallery aiming to promote arts and craft by Greek artist. He lives in Athens, Greece and is a father of two girls who are often for him an inspiration about life.

Education:

Technical Institute in art restoration
Technical Institute in electric engineering

Exhibitions:

2011
Athens Fringe Festival, Technopolis, Athènes
Technopolis, exposition au thème de la “Maison” organisée par le centre de desintoxication DIAVASI, Athènes
Gallerie Trainogalleri, Athènes
Gallerie Alogo, Athènes, en permanance
Designer’s Dot Gallery, Athènes, en permanance
Gallerie Enigma, Athènes, en permanence

2010
Abri social pour immigrés de Chania, exposition pour le rassemblement de ressources pour les immigrés sur l’ile de Crete
ECOLIFE, “eco-logique”, Technopolis, Athènes
Gallerie Ηarma, Athènes, en permanence
Gallerie Harma, X-mas Folly, Athènes

2009
Gallerie Mistlin, en solo, Modesto, CA, Etats-Unis
Gallerie ΑRT10 , Athènes
Athens Fine Arts Festival, Espace de la cooperation Franco-Hellénique, Athènes
Gallerie Artspace, île de Santorin
Fondation Eugenides, ecoart, Athènes
World Art Expo, Brea, CA, Etats-Unis

2008
Gallerie Enigma, "Evolution", en solo, Athènes
Gallerie Artspace, île de Santorin
Gallerie Downtown, “4plus1” - “4 peintres et un sculpteur”, Athènes
Politia Tennis Club, Vente aux enchères pour le programme nutritionnel des Medecins Sans Frontières du Niger, Athènes

2007
Musee Bouzianis, Athènes

2004
Gallerie Magna, en solo, Athènes
Espace culturelle du centre de desintoxication DIAVASI, en solo, Athènes
Penumbra Studio, “11 artists into the light”, Sacramento, Etats-Unis

2001
Théâtre municipal de Dafni, Athènes
Gallerie Epistrofi, Athènes
Parc de la liberté, Athènes
Pinacothèque municipal, ile de Corfu

2000
Gallerie Aenaon, "30 moto", en solo, Athènes