Iason Venetsanopoulos

Iason Venetsanopoulos approaches painting as an improvisatory activity that unveils memories and experiences, which can be rendered accessible through the creative process. Such an improvisatory activity, though, should not be confused with an agentless surrender to randomness, but rather considered as the composition of unforeseeable elements that might spring from the unconscious, from ideas, dreams, feelings, and from the constant interaction with the materials. For Venetsanopoulos there is no particular intention lying behind painting; it is not a matter of conscious choice, but rather of a creative urge, an impulse to give form to thoughts and emotions and to spontaneously draw images seared in memory. Thereby, painting turns into a ritual, a meditative process during which artist and artwork exist as one inseparable whole.

What is most intriguing about his work is the inextricable connection between the painting itself, its materiality and its theme. Every artwork results from an endless strangle and an ongoing experimentation with the medium (whether it is painting, drawing or etching); It is a freestanding entity, subjected to the unique circumstances of its production and determined by the materials chosen for its execu...

2016-
Counseling psychotherapy, Athens Synthesis Center.

​2004 – 2008
Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Fine Arts Academy

​2003- 2004
Mpeltekos- Sarasitis WorkshopDrawing classes

1999-2002
Tassis Hellenic high school International Baccalaureate

Solo Exhibitions

2023
"In Between", Amalias 36, Athens, Greece
2020
“NeoMythical”, Athens Art Gallery, Glykonos 5,10675, Athens,

2017
“There is an other world but it is inside this one” Image Gallery 36 Amalias Ave. Athens,

2015
“Koan and other Analogies”, Image Gallery, Av. Amalias 36 Athens

2013
“Drawings I”, Bar project, Iraklidon 52 Thisio, Athens