Draft:Christodoulos Gkaltemis

Christodoulos Gkaltemis
Born	(1953-07-05) July 5, 1953 (age 72) Kostaniani, Ioannina, Epirus, Greece
Nationality	Greek
Education	Athens School of Fine Arts
Known for	Painting, Engraving

Christodoulos Gkaltemis is a Greek painter and engraver, born in Ioannina, Epirus, Greece. He has served as Associate Professor in the Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences at the University of Ioannina.^[1] He has been awarded the First Prize in the "Class of Letters and Fine Arts" by the Academy of Athens for his overall contribution to visual arts.^[2][3][4]

Biography

Christodoulos Gkaltemis was born in Kostaniani, Ioannina, in 1953. During his years at secondary school, he began studying painting with compatriot painter Georgios Kazakos. Later, he enrolled at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he first studied in the engraving studio of Kostas Grammatopoulos,^[5] from which he graduated with the "Award for Best Works Created" . At the same time, he attended Giannis Papadakis' "Training workshop on artistic typography and book art", as well as theoretical courses taught by Pandelis Prevelakis, Pavlos Milonas, Antonios Danassis-Afentakis and Marina Lambraki-Plaka.^[6] In 1986, he received a three-year scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation for postgraduate studies in engraving. In 2008, he received the First Prize in the "Class of Letters and Fine Arts" by the Academy of Athens. ^{[citation needed]}

Work

In his works he depicts scenes from neighborhoods of Athens of the past, including inhabited and uninhabited neoclassical houses, as well as traditional provincial houses.^[7] According to the excerpt of the report by the Secretary General of the Academy of Athens, Mr. Nikolaos Matsaniotis, which was read on 30 December 2008 during the ceremonial session of the award to Christodoulos Gkaltemis^[7], it was stated among other things that^[8]: "His subject matter encompasses nature and especially the countryside, with the diffusion of light as a key element. All his works, both paintings and engravings, are permeated by a lucid atmosphere. Through both forms of expression, he conveys his inner pulse to the viewer with a superficial tranquility. He is an artist who does not lead the viewer to the surface but conceals his contemplation and sensitivity. His remarkable drawing ability is particularly evident in his engraving work because of the simplicity of the medium, since color is rare in it."

Haris Kampouridis, art critic and semiologist, member of the Academia Europaea, emphasizes, among other things, about the artist's work : "Obvious and appealing from one point of view, hidden and inaccessible from another, the values of Christodoulos Gkaltemis' art already constitute a robust, complete body of work, with ideological conviction and technical skills that place him alongside important peers, whose work he worthily extends. The visual images that the artist presents to our gaze are clearly recognizable: old houses from Epirus, the shores of lakes in Ioannina or Missolonghi, as well as autonomous structural elements or ornaments. However, at the same time, while these subjects satisfy vision with the precision of their description, they also provoke reflection, creating a momentary suspension, since the realism is not as plausible as one might initially think. A subtle dialogue of light and shadow generates successive facets in the shaping of form, thereby multiplying meanings."^{[citation needed]}

Mr. Nikos Vatopoulos, journalist and writer, in his review of Gkaltemis' latest exhibition, writes for the Greek newspaper Kathimerini, among other things^[9]: "Surrounded by the fruits and flowers of Christodoulos Gkaltemis, one feels part of a long journey through time. These are landscapes and reflections of the mind and gestures of a certain aesthetic origin. Christodoulos Gkaltemis' exhibition at the Argo Gallery is a confirmation of the solid painting and the mastery of drawing of a creator who is constantly opening up paths to new emotion. His new work consists of still lifes. Not random compositions, but crystallizations with intense symbolism. Christodoulos Gkaltemis, a direct and inventive man, with his acquired freedom through time, excavates the landscape of memory, of ancestral origins, of the journey toward maturity, and brings forth the gifts of this path as trophies."^{[citation needed]}

Works by Gkaltemis are found in the Hellenic Parliament, the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank (Greece), Ergobank (merged into Eurobank in 2000), the European Investment Bank, the Vorres Museum, the Averoff Gallery in Metsovo, the Town Hall of Ioannina, the Engraving Gallery founded by Kostas Malamos in Zitsa and the Hambis Printmaking Museum. They are also found in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Greece), in the Hyatt Regency Hotel of Thessaloniki and the King George Hotel of Athens, as well as in banks, public organizations, and in numerous private collections in Greece, Cyprus, the United States, Canada, England, Belgium, France, and Germany.^[10]

Solo exhibitions

• 1984, Gallery "Ekfrasi", Glyfada

Christodoulos Gkaltemis is a Greek painter and engraver, born in Ioannina, Epirus, Greece. He has served as Associate Professor in the Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences at the University of Ioannina.[1] He has been awarded the First Prize in the "Class of Letters and Fine Arts" by the Academy of Athens for his overall contribution to visual arts.[2][3][4]

Biography

Christodoulos Gkaltemis was born in Kostaniani, Ioannina, in 1953. During his years at secondary school, he began studying painting with compatriot painter Georgios Kazakos. Later, he enrolled at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he first studied in the engraving studio of Kostas Grammatopoulos,[5] from which he graduated with the "Award for Best Works Created" . At the same time, he attended Giannis Papadakis' "Training workshop on artistic typography and book art", as well as theoretical courses taught by Pandelis Prevelakis, Pavlos Milonas, Antonios Danassis-Afentakis and Marina Lambraki-Plaka.[6] In 1986, he received a three-year scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation for postgraduate studies in engraving. In 2008, he received the First Prize in the "Class of Letters and Fine Arts" by the Academy of Athens. [citation needed]

Work

In his works he depicts scenes from neighborhoods of Athens of the past, including inhabited and uninhabited neoclassical houses, as well as traditional provincial houses.[7] According to the excerpt of the report by the Secretary General of the Academy of Athens, Mr. Nikolaos Matsaniotis, which was read on 30 December 2008 during the ceremonial session of the award to Christodoulos Gkaltemis[7], it was stated among other things that[8]: "His subject matter encompasses nature and especially the countryside, with the diffusion of light as a key element. All his works, both paintings and engravings, are permeated by a lucid atmosphere. Through both forms of expression, he conveys his inner pulse to the viewer with a superficial tranquility. He is an artist who does not lead the viewer to the surface but conceals his contemplation and sensitivity. His remarkable drawing ability is particularly evident in his engraving work because of the simplicity of the medium, since color is rare in it."

Haris Kampouridis, art critic and semiologist, member of the Academia Europaea, emphasizes, among other things, about the artist's work : "Obvious and appealing from one point of view, hidden and inaccessible from another, the values of Christodoulos Gkaltemis' art already constitute a robust, complete body of work, with ideological conviction and technical skills that place him alongside important peers, whose work he worthily extends. The visual images that the artist presents to our gaze are clearly recognizable: old houses from Epirus, the shores of lakes in Ioannina or Missolonghi, as well as autonomous structural elements or ornaments. However, at the same time, while these subjects satisfy vision with the precision of their description, they also provoke reflection, creating a momentary suspension, since the realism is not as plausible as one might initially think. A subtle dialogue of light and shadow generates successive facets in the shaping of form, thereby multiplying meanings."[citation needed]

• 1985, Gallery "Epohes", Ioannina^{[citation needed]}
• 1985, Gallery "Kentron Technis" (Art Center), Thessaloniki^{[citation needed]}
• 1988, Gallery "Argo", Athens^[11]
• 1990, Gallery "Argo", Athens^{[citation needed]}
• 1992, Gallery "Ekfrasi", Glyfada^{[citation needed]}
• 1993, Gallery "Argo", Athens^{[citation needed]}

1993, Gallery "Argo", Nicosia

1994, Gallery "Prisma", Livadeia

1995, Gallery "Argo", Nicosia

2000, Gallery "Karyatides", Ioannina

2003, Gallery "Karyatides", Ioannina

2008, Gallery "Argo", Athens

2008–2009, Gallery "Neorion Technis", Agrinio

2010, Conference Center "Mikis Theodorakis", Town Hall of Argyroupoli^[12]

2015, Fethiye Mosque (Nafpaktos)^[13]

2016, "Zivas Art Gallery", Athens^[14][15]

2017, Municipal Gallery of Ioannina^{[citation needed]}

2017, Gallery "Argo", Athens^{[citation needed]}

2023, Gallery "Argo", Athens^{[citation needed]}

Group exhibitions

1976, "Ipeirotika", Ioannina. Spiritual Foundation of the Municipality of Athens^{[citation needed]}

1981, "Greek Spring", "Kentron Technis" (Art Center), Athens^{[citation needed]}

1983, "Lithographies", "Kentron Technis", Athens; Kentron Technis, Thessaloniki; "Ekfrasi", Glyfada^{[citation needed]}

1985, "Four Young Artists" (Chr. Gkaltemis, St. Daskalakis, St. Koukás, Sp. Koursaris), Artigraf Art Center, Athens^{[citation needed]}

1986, Tranoulis Foundation, Athens^{[citation needed]}

1986, "Modern Greek Painters – Lithographies", Directorate for Greeks Abroad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Athens; Permanent Representation of Greece to the UN, New York City; Chicago (organized by the Greek Consulate); Archaeological Museum of Munich; Oslo; Sofia; Canberra, Australia; Wellington, New Zealand (organized by the respective Embassies and communities)^{[citation needed]}

1988, Gallery K, London^{[citation needed]} 1991, Gallery K, London^{[citation needed]} 1994, "Epirote Painters", informal meeting of EEC Ministers, Town Hall of Ioannina^{[citation needed]}

1996, "Epirote Artists", Zappeion Megaron, Athens

1998, "Engraving – Seven Significant Creators" (A. Tassos, T. Kanthos, K. Grammatopoulos, Chr. Gkaltemis, P. Gravvalos, P. Pantolfini, Louis Solari), Gallery "Argo", Athens

2000, "1st Triennale of Greek Engraving", Pieridis Gallery, Glyfada^[16]

2001, "Technopolis", Month of Visual Arts, Athens

2002, "From the Generation of the '30s until Today", Gallery "Skoufa", Athens

2003, "Engraving 2003 – Student and Mature Years", Thessaloniki

2004, "Prizewinners and prizes" (Chr. Gkaltemis, A. Drougas, Sp. Koursaris, M. Spiliopoulos, K. Spyropoulos, A. Fassianos), "Peri Technon", Athens; Gallery "Karyatides", Ioannina

2004, "The Paintings of the World Unite", Aetopouleio Cultural Center, Municipality of Halandri; Inauguration of the Halandri Metro Station

2005, "A Table – Sto trapezi", Gallery "Skoufa", Athens

2005, "Contemporary Greek Painting", Museum of the City of Athens (Vouros–Eutaxias), Athens

2005, "Greek Sculpture and Engraving, Collection of Th. Chatzisavvas", Municipal Gallery of Athens

2005, "Contemporary Greek Engraving", Papastrateio Megaron, Agrinio

2005, "Windows on the Fifth Season" (A. Georgou, Chr. Gkaltemis, Kyriaki, E. Melas, T. Batinakis), "Atrion", Thessaloniki

2005, "Engraving", State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

2006, "Authentic Engravings" (G. Varlamos, D. Giannoukakis, Chr. Gkaltemis, P. Gravvalos, K. Grammatopoulos, T. Kanthos, L. Maggiorou, G. Papadakis, K. Plakotaris, A. Tassos, P. Tetsis, G. Tsarouchis, A. Fassianos, N. Chatzikyriakos-Gikas), Gallery "Argo", Athens

2006, "Neighborhoods of Athens", Adam Gallery, Athens

2006, "Epirote Visual Artists", "Ianos" Bookstore, Athens^[17]

2006, "Zosimadon Actions 2006", Archbishop Spyridon Hall of the Zosimaia School, event under the auspices of the President of the Hellenic Republic, Mr. Karolos Papoulias^[18]

Προέδρου της Ελληνικής Δημοκρατίας κ. Κάρολου Παπούλια.^[19] 2007, "Missolonghi Today Through Art" (G. Varlamos, Chr. Vergis, Chr. Gkaltemis, A. Grigoras, Th. Papagiannis), Christos and Sophia Moschandreou Gallery, Missolonghi; Gallery "Argo", Athens 2007, "Greek Engraving Today", Evangelos Averoff Gallery, Metsovo; Moni Lazariston, Thessaloniki 2008, "Panorama of Greek Engraving", Technopolis, Athens 2008, "90 Years of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE)", Technopolis (Gazi), Athens^[20]

2009, "Impressions on Paper", Municipal Gallery, Piraeus

2009, "Greek Artists for Human Rights", Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens

2009, "100 Years of Modern Greek Engraving", collection of Giannis Papakonstantinou, Society for Macedonian Studies, Thessaloniki

2009, "Panorama of Greek Engraving", State Museum of Contemporary Art and Cultural Organization of the Municipality of Thessaloniki; Municipal Gallery of upper Toumba, Thessaloniki

2009, "MSc Visual Art", Forsyth Center Galleries, Texas (participation with eight copper engravings)

2011, "Natura 2011", Eugenides Foundation, Athens; Michael Cacoyannis Foundation (in collaboration with the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Moschandreou Gallery), Athens^[21]

2011, "Exhibition Dedicated to Altamouras", Art Erisma, Piraeus

2012, "Bizden ve Onlardan 23", Tem Sanat Galerisi, Istanbul^[22] 2012, "The Line of Engraving Unites", Technochoros – Art Gallery, Athens – Florence^[23]

2013–2014, "Discover Missolonghi Through Art", Moschandreou Gallery, Missolonghi – Vouros–Eutaxias Museum, Athens – Tsichritzis Mansion, Tripoli, Greece – Evangelos Averoff Gallery, Metsovo – Municipal Gallery of Ioannina^[24]

2014, "En Technos", Technopolis, Municipality of Athens (Evonymos Ecological Library), Athens^[25]

2015–2016, "Three Generations of Greek Painting and Engraving", Municipal Gallery of Athens – Municipal Gallery of Ioannina – Municipal Gallery of Karditsa – Municipal Gallery of Patras^[26][27]

2016, "Art Athina", Museum of Greek Engraving, Athens 2017, Paphos, European Capital of Culture: Myth, History, Landscape^[28]

2018–2019, "Three Generations of Greek Painting and Engraving", Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation, Athens (December 2018 – January 2019)^[29]

2018, "En Olympia to Kalliston", War Museum of Athens.^[30]

2019, "Greek Painters", Municipal Hall of Agios Athanasios, Paros^[31]

2020, "Greek Engravers", "Th. Stamos" Art Hall, Cultural Center of the Municipality of Lefkada^[32] 2020, "40 Athenian Galleries – 40 Artists: An Alternative Digital Gallery Walk by Athens Culture Net", in collaboration with the Panhellenic Association of Art Galleries and Art Athina "Art Athina"^[33][34]

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