Christoforos Katsadiotis is a Greek engraver and was born on November 24, 1971, in Athens. For 15 years he worked as a journalist
The works behind the explosion of Niki MP Nikos Papadopoulos were created by Christoforos Katsidiotis and had a religious and ecclesiastical theme, according to the artist himself.
Specifically, the MP caused damage to at least 4 projects, including one depicting “Our Lady with Christ Hug” and was held for at least 5 hours, and was released after intervening his lawyer.
But who is Christoforos Katsidiotis and what do his works sign up in the exhibition “The Sanctuary of the Weird – Intermediate Space” of the National Gallery?
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THE Christopher Katsadiotis He is a Greek engraver and was born on November 24, 1971, in Athens. For 15 years he worked as a journalist on radio stations, television and press magazine. He studied at the Department of Fine Arts and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki from 2009 to 2014. He has held many solo and group exhibitions in Greece, France, Poland, and other countries. His engravings have been used by the publishing houses of Gutenberg, Divine, Mandragoras, Polytropon, Cedar, Melani and Bartzoulianos, and has been awarded for his work:
- In 2011 with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Prize, LLP-Erasmus program
- In 2012 with the 1st Biennale Award of Greek EX-LIBRIS engravers, Crete
- In 2017 with a prize of the 12th International Animation Festival – “12th Athens Animfest” (“Carousel” -nimation Engraving)
Since 2013, he settled in Paris and has been writing in the Greek press for the artistic events there. In 2015, the theaters of Eurydice, Zéro and Théâtre du Cristal in Paris used his engravings to promote their performances. It specializes mainly in oxygraphy, which is the writing with acids on a metal plate (uterus), and then printed on paper, using a press. In 2017 he was a candidate for the post of professor, at the tier of the Associate Professor or Assistant Professor in the Department of Engraving of the Department of Fine Arts of ASKT.
Asked by Irene Aivaliotou about catisart.gr, regarding what the main themes of his works are, Christopher Katsadiotis replied:
“I don’t even know …! It is a psychoanalytic road report, from a dreamy perspective, through my personal look. Wherever, it makes me get to know my heroes better, but also myself. In the end, I believe that my heroes are all of us, deformed by the passage of life above us. “
In a conversation with Katerina Sotiriou, posted on YouTube, presenting the artistic chart on the radio of the transmission, on the show “Terra Incognita” (22/01/2017), the artist argues that “behind art is ideology”.
Specifically states: ‘There is freedom in expression of course” And he adds to his works: “My works are based on dark aspects that everyone has inside. We are afraid of them because we do not know what will come out of there. “
The weirdness of the weird – intermediate space
As stated in Website of the National Gallery In the report: “The impact of Goya’s subversive viewing of the world proves extremely durable. It makes its presence evident in the liberating explosion of surreal visions and the poetic language of modernism, while still providing us with a valuable tank of original visual interpretations for our relationship with the world and the beings that make up it. Its engravings are distinguished for the plausibility of the monstrous, the persuasion of the absurd and the attraction of the heinous. Utilizing the theatricality of carnival tradition and commedia dell ‘arte, Goya composes an innovative universe dominated by ambiguity and hybridity, the constant swing between the familiar and the uninitiated, a sense of artistic, and the artistic, Forms that strangely attract us instead of repelled us, perhaps because we intuitively recognize something deeply of ours.
Moving on to the rows of Goya’s engraving works in the National Gallery and consistent in the intention of renewing the reading tools of the historical collections with the intermediary actions program, we present with the exhibition of the 80 Los Caprichos series, a theme of Greek. The group exhibition includes works of ten artists who are embraced and depicted the weird, hybrid, and grotesque“
The butcher of the avenue
According to a post by artist Christoforos Katsadiotis the controversial work, which triggered the explosion of the Niki MP, entitled “The Butcher of the Avenue” is related to religious issues.
Specifically he states: ‘Clarification: The title of this oxygraphy, “The Butcher of the Avenue” that has the project, is related to ecclesiastical and religious issues and not to my friends … !![ενν. τους Γιώργηδες] .”
In an interview with catisart.gr, Christopher Katsadiotis said: “If you are honest with yourself, it finds a way out, as an automatic writing, when you let the unconscious go out and deposit. This spiritual material takes shape. Pieces of aesthetic and personal opinion, how and why you see things from that point of view, begin to reveal. Im genuine, Im emotions I express without filters, so I never know what the way the narrative will take and what the final form of a engraving will be until the last minute. Just because it is authentic what will come out, it is what has touched on sensitive strings of the viewer, even if my job is not to its taste. I do a special impression that I have seen a viewer crying in front of my work, but I have also received letters of explanations and unanswered personal interpretations … I consider their viewers to read, as they are called upon to read my work … “
Finally, to the question of whether he would advise younger visual artists to migrate from Greece as it is today? He responded positively, justifying, ‘it is much more likely, Outside Greece they have a better future and find a more meritocratic field … Not that abroad, that is, there are no circuits and clicks … But it is mainly important for young people to separate easy and proven habits and move on to unknown fields. Maturation comes through such processes and these experiences are important because they make you faster and more versatile. They bring you more directly facing yourself. And surely abroad, they will have more stimuli, Greece is a small hamlet, like the Galatians in Asterix … “
Source :Skai
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