Vaggelis Hoursoglou Woozy

Vaggelis Choursoglou’s distinctive visual idiom interweaves personal recollections and found imagery with references to art history, street art and primitive culture in compositions that unfold into complex narratives which propel us to contemplate on the urban environment and its interrelation with the human being.
He uses color chaotically as a means of presenting current realities and their infinite possibilities and interpretations. His palettes can be bright, subdued, cool or warm, similarly to his stance over the current reality. He sees a reality that stimulates, oppresses, depresses and encourages.
He has also developed a more personal style of naïve aesthetic form yet retaining an intense expressionistic nature.
Developed through the creation of graffiti, murals, installations, paintings, sculptures, his work is eventually a ritualistic performance of synthesis of a contemporary primitive language; this is the only language for him that can express the current life.
Born in Athens, Greece, he graduated from Athens School of Fine Arts in 2010. Shortly after, in 2011, he presented his first solo exhibition in London (Lazaridis gallery). Starting his artistic activity as a muralist and progressively moving into pain...

2008 - 2009 Lisbon School of Fine Art, Portugal (Erasmus program)
2004 - 2010 Athens School of Fine Art

2019 We are many but scutterd , Athens , Neo cosmos art foundation
2016 “Polaris”, Tart gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 “I hope for nothing “, Octopus project space, Berlin, Germany
2016 “Metropolitani indiani”, Sarri 12, Athens, Greece
2016 “Closer to nebula”, Rocabella, Mykonos, Greece
2015 “Colourful travellers”, Grecotel, Athens, Greece
2011 “I don't care about my face”, Outsider's gallery, London, UK