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Thomai Kontou
"Kyttaro - cell"Oil on paper cm 20 x 30 "Chaos"Oil on paper cm 20 x 30 - Biografia
- Thomai Kontou is a Greek painter and mailartist. She is the curator of the 1st International Mail Art Exhibition in Greece which is organised by Ioanna Papachristou and the "Consulate of Culture" Society in Elassona.
- Thomai Kontou learned sketching from 1971 to 1978 in Athens, in the Vrassida Vlahopoulos and Theodoros Drossos ateliers. She was taught painting by Yannis Tsarouhis, while she learned the Fresco Technique by Dimitris Kostopoulos.
- She is continuously present in the Artistic area since 1973 with 20 individuai exhibitions and has taken part in 151 group shows in Greece and abroad. She participated in 8 BIENNALES: 1996 in Belgrade, 1998 in Mexico, 1999 and 2001 in Pisa - Italy and in 2002 and 2004 in Poland, 2005 in Nikcic - Serbia and Ankara - Turkey.
- Her works afe influenced by the Aegean Sea, its stones and shells, by the Universal flows and the Angels' Plasmas.
- Works of her can be found in private collections in Greece, Cyprus, Germany, USA, Italy, Japan, Spain, Brazil. They can also be found in the Navy's collection in the "Averoff" warship and in the following Museums: "Transparent Museum of Art" in Belgrade and the Posi "Denmark Museum of Art" in Copenhagen. Aiso in Sgourda's Collection "Contemporary artistic èventail" in Athens, and Beijing Natural Culture Center, in China.
- The Greek Navy has dedicated to her the 53d special edition of "Navy Intellectual Culture", while she has been included in the artistic sector of the "Navy Encyclopedia", in the "Painters meeting" folio, and the Greek Artists' Lexicon edited by"Melissa".
- Under the Auspices of the Organization "Cultural Capitol of Europe Thessaloniki '97", her folio "Aegean Shells" was edited in June 1997. It contained 1 O cards from her paintings.
- In 1998 she sketched the scenery and costumes far the play " Our own yard" by Vangelis Colonas, which was performed in Larissa in cooperation with the " Theater of Thessaly ".
- Indirizzo: Xanthou 9 40200 Elassona - Greece
- E-mail: uxa53@yahoo.gr:
- Links:
- www.artmajeur.com/kontou
- www.leukipoli.gr/mailart
- www.guzzardi.it/arte/archiviomailart/artistimailart/kontou.html
