Exhibition Dia-Chronos - From the deep as words we rise | Anna Maria Papadimitriou

The works presented in the exhibition move within the wider context of abstract expressionism with a very personal painterly idiom that approaches poetic abstraction. The artist gives her own titles to the works but the approach the viewer will ultimately have and the feeling obtained from viewing the works may vary. Different readings are perfectly legitimate and the viewers ultimately become participants and co-creators.

The Art Historian Dr. Thodoris Koutsoyiannis says: "Without specific references to the outside world, the paintings of Anna Maria Papadimitriou can be seen as otherworldly, almost dreamlike, transcendental "landscapes". Any association with the natural world leads rather to an aquatic environment, as a starting point for life and creation. Papadimitriou's paintings invite the viewer to wander, virtually, in "uncharted waters", in the unconscious, in the world that exists beyond our senses. The mental synapses and sensory outbursts potentially evoked by the Painter's hues reach the point of ecstatic self-awareness.”

Born in 1972 and raised in Athens Greece. Initially trained in Interior Architecture, she turned to the Athens School of Fine Arts following her longing for limitless expression. She studied Painting under the professors Yannis Valavanidis and Michalis Manousakis (2000-2005). She presented her first solo exhibition in Athens (Astrolavos Gallery, 2010). Since then, her work has been shown in group and solo exhibitions worldwide.

In 2014 she won an international competition curated by CultureInside Gallery in Luxembourg. Since 2017 she has participated in the annual international “Art Athina” represented by Astrolavos Gallery.

Her paintings utilise a series of contrasts: elements real and utopian, movement and calm, things timeless and instantaneous. She often refers to her work as “unfamiliar internal landscapes” claiming that the Unfamiliar is a more open space, broader, stretching its boundaries out in all directions for a single instant gazing at the truth. The non-visible and the clues to the Unseen were obviously issues that existed unconsciously as she was connecting to a painting process that resembled the experience of successive dives into the depths of the Invisible.

Her work can be found in several private collections in all continents of our blue planet.

Nikolaou Gyzi 5, Chora Tinos Island Greece

Νικολαου Γύζη 5, Χώρα Τήνος, Κυκλάδες