VASSILIKI KOSKINIOTOU
‘’We have to do with exceptional painting, with emotive sensitivity and personal vision, on the borderline between abstract and representational art, which at times draws its inspiration from poetry and language. Mixed media with oils, oil sticks and oil pastels on paper and canvas, chromatically balanced to an almost musical harmony, materialize a self-sufficient visual world. In this universe we can discern forms with vivid symbolic content which constitute a painting idiom which, albeit only scarcely anthropomorphic, is in its essence deeply anthropocentric.
The images of ladders, avid in Koskiniotou’s work act as leitmotif: at times vertical in its track upwards, at other times the end of spiral or a helix, occasionally it roughly outlines a female form, or hints at the double helix of life and creation; and with the ladder, the arrow, a sign and trace of movement, transition, even transformation, but primarily of humanization and erotic origin; the rain, a pattern of immersion, nourishment, fertility and intercourse; diverse celestial bodies, signs of the attraction of the bond; the moon, a self-referential sign of the immersion in the self and in the world; the arc-house and the vessel, allegories of existence and transition respectively ; organic forms such as the seed, the stem, images of flourishing and fruit-bearing, metaphors of the creation of life and of artistic creation; emerging or suggestively concealed forms , in potential creator-mothers, maternal figures assuming the shape of a house or a crop, couples floating over the background of organic landscapes of the microcosmos and cosmological landscapes of the macrocosmos in a manner evoking Chagall, Klee and Miro.”
Dimitris Loukidelis
From the catalogue of the exhibition V.Koskiniotou, Metechnio, April-May 2008/Athens, Greexe
STUDIES
2006 Degree in Visual Arts, the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece
2002 Postgraduate Seminar in Philosophy of Art, University of Athens
1991 Postgraduate Seminar in History of Art and Bilingual Translation,
Universite Lumiere II, Lyon, France
1990 Diploma in Translation, I.F.A. Athens
1989 Degree in French Language and Literature, University of Athens
SOLO SHOWS
2014 Places of Passage, Artzone 42 Gallery
2013 Breastfeeding mothers, Alexandra’s Nursery University Hospital, Athens
2012 Spring Studies, Nroom-Art Space, curat. N. Maehara, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Origins and Ladders, Titanium Art Gallery, Athens
2008 Traces of Ladder and Other Erotic Works, Metaixmion- Gallery, Athens
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2016 ‘’Μεταμόρφωσις:Beyond Shapes’’, ArtMoorHouse,London,UK
2016 “Dialogue between the artist and the spectator”,, Malou Art Gallery, Athens
2015 Μythologies re-tailed, international group show Chania, Crete
2015 Threads and Shadows, the Art Loft, Athens
2014 Words and colour, Kaplanon gallery, Athens
2014 Sea ecstatic D.C.Artworks Gallery, Athens
2014 We33, ART ATHINA, Projects-Platform
2013 Big crisis, Small works, Follow Your Art Gallery
2012 Hope/kibou group show, Nerima Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2012 ‘More female than ever’, Follow Your Art Gallery, Kythira island, Greece
2011 Immagina, 13th Art-Fair of Contemporary art, Fiere di Reggio Emilia, Italy
2011 Homage to Lafcadio Hearn, Art & Book exhibition, Nippon Gallery, NY
2011 Not female at all, Chorostasion, Athens
2010 The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn, Matsue Museum Castle, Matsue of Japan.
2010 Erisychthon, Kanellopoulos Foundation- Academy of Athens, Eleusis
2009 Silent Dialogues: Multimedia Portaits throughout Time, the ACG Art Gallery, Athens
2009 Greek Printing: An Overview, Thessalonica. Hellenic Chamber of Fine Arts and the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art.
2008 9 Women artists in Dialogue with the Environment, Ios Island.
2008 Athens School of Fine Arts 2006-07 graduates show, Athens
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Maria Yiayiannou ‘Making Bridges’- on the ‘smiling maternities’ of Vassiliki Koskiniotou, May 2014
Ira Papapostolou ‘On the work of Vassiliki Koskiniotou April 2014
Chronos magazine, online presentation, Nefeli editions, September 2014
Vassiliki Athena Vayenou, On Koskiniotou’s ‘Spring Studies’ , Athens. April 2012
‘Art-beat’ the Tokyo artsmagazine, on spring studies in Nroom gallery, Tokyo, 2012
Alexandra Koroxenides: ‘ Paintings with poetic rhythm’ 2008
Thoughts of a shy-blogspot.com: ‘Vassiliki koskiniotou’s paintings exhibition in Titanium’ 28.09.2008
Efi Athanasiou: Vassiliki Koskiniotou: A painting of Colour-Energie’ September 2008
Megacles Rogakos: Vassiliki Koskiniotou: Ut poesis picture September 2008
Angheliki Bassoukou, “Two-dimensional narration and its deeper perspective” August 2008
Dimitris Loukidelis, Note on the work of Vassiliki Koskiniotou, 2008