Fotis I

BIOGRAPHY / BIOGRAPHIE / ΒΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑ

∞ name : FOTIS P

∞ COLLAGE ARTIST

∞ I am Greek, I studied economic science at the University of Piraeus, in Greece, and MBA degree in marketing and management, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.

∞ My passion has nothing to do with science but with art (POSTAGE STAMP ART), and when we are saying "ART " is better to leave the logic aside and use your imagination.

My grandfather introduce me, to the "WORLD OF STAMPS" when i was very young, he was a stamp collector. I remember that i was admiring the stamp albums (books) for hours, days, years. Looking the dozens albums of stamps i could learn the science, the art, the men & women who have succeeded in many different areas of life, the heritage-historical-iconic sites of different countries and millions important other topics/subjects.

DIFFICULTIES lead to innovative art idea
It is difficult to see the stamps through the albums so i thought if you could gathering them with thematic criteria and represent them, as collage, you will see a unique piece of art and the beauty of the stamps as a whole and as a unit. Believe me the results are extraordinaire !

∞ ART is : using low cost (worthless) materials, ...

2019 Collective Memory, Travelling exhibition, New York-Glasgow-Dublin
2018 LESS IS MORE : Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands
2018 Still Moving, The Anthropologist in Me, Forum Arte Braga, Braga, Portugal
2018 Breakfast at Tiffany’s , Collectors Depot, Pörtschach am Wörthersee, Austria
2018 Windowlicker, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
2017 collage Galerie LOFT, Paris , France
2017 Something Blue, Nacré Fraternité FLAT:TWO, Digbyland Studios, London
2017 Time Traveler The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo

2016 MÉMOIRES DE LETTRE LOEVENBRUCK Paris , France
2016 Surface and Beyond, Dirimart Dolapdere, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Middle Temple, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
2015 Making a Mark, SVA, New York, NY
2015 Italia Docet | Laboratorium, Venice Biennale, Italy
2015 ‘envoye’ Galerie d'Art GNG Paris, FRANCE
2014 ‘Berlin’ galerie 61, Bielefeld, Germany
2014 STAMPS Applicat-Prazan Rive Gauche PARIS, france

2013 54. October Salon, Kluz, Belgrade | curated by Red Min(e)d
2013 Narcissus Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
2013 Out of the House Cranford Collection, Sala de Arte, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain
2012 A specia...