The visual artist died Christos Sarakatsianos at the age of 85 after a long illness.
The painter, sculptor and engraver, Christos Sarakatsianos was born in 1937 in Megali Gotista, Ioannina. As mentioned in an announcement of the Board. of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, which expresses its sorrow for his death, “his first teachers in art were the hagiographer George Kazakos and Panos Sarafianos. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts, first in the sculpture workshop of Thanasis Apartis and then with Giannis Moralis, with a scholarship from IKY. He studied scenography and decoration and graduated in 1967. In the period 1967-1973 he traveled to various European countries where he visited museums and studied the currents of contemporary art. He also studied ancient Greek, Byzantine and folk art.
He presented his first solo exhibition in Athens (“Ira” Art Cultural Center, 1982). During his great artistic career he held 20 solo exhibitions throughout Greece and took part in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad (Italy, Belgium, Australia, Bulgaria, Germany, Cyprus).
His works can be found in museums and galleries (National Gallery, Vorre Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art-Andros, Municipal Gallery of Athens, National Bank of Greece, Municipal Gallery of Rhodes, Heraklion, etc.) as well as in private collections in Greece, Europe, America. and Japan.
In the context of his wider artistic activity, he was involved in the illustration of publications and the editing of publications. He was a founding member of the Copperplate Group (1977-1980).
Christos Sarakatsianos was a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts since 1969 and was a member of the Classification and Judgment Committees in 1999 “.
His funeral will take place tomorrow Thursday 20 January at 1:00 p.m. at the 1st Cemetery, I. Church of Agios Theodoros.
See all the news
Follow Skai.gr on Google News
and be the first to know all the news
.
