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Lydia Venieri is a Greek artist.

Personal life

Background

Venieri was born in Athens, Greece. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She has lived in Paris and is currently living in New York. Her web site dates from 1995, and showed some of the first Internet-based art.

Career

As artist

Venieri is well known for her evocative sculpture installations which bridge mythology with current events, and for her ability to combine humor with self-reflection on human conditions in our times, through her characters that are taken from mythology, history, fairy tales and daily life. In her stories dreams reinforce reality and reality reinforce dreams.

The provocative visualizations of the universe of Venieri's work offer a Potnian statement about the world in flux in which we live.

She has had many exhibitions around the world.

She has been noted as;

"Lydia Venieri erects entire mythologies and symbolic systems from the already phantasmagoric world of news media. Her stories are played out using dolls and childlike imagery to counter media dementia, in painting, drawing, photography, video and the internet. Theogony explicates Venieri's universe surveying two decades of work; work of one of the most celebrated and visionary Greek artists of our time."

She currently shows with Stux Gallery in New York, Gallery Quang in Paris, Galleri S.E in Norway, Tokyo Terra in Japan and Gallery Isabel Aninat in Chile.

Works

Projects

• Byronic Heros, 2017
• Tarot of Love, 2017
• The Dolphin Conspiracy, 2011
• TOMORROW ~ PHOSPHOR STARS IN WHITE NIGHTS, 2009
• See No Evil, 2008
• WarGames, 2006
• For Ever After, 2004
• Hibernation - Sleeping Beauty Conscience, 2002

iPhone art

• Moonlight, 2009

Animations and movies

• The Dolphin Conspiracy, 2009
• Tomorrow, 2006
• Epilisy, 2005
• Last Conflict, 2005
• For Ever After, 2004
• Sleeping Beauty Conscience, 2002
• Martha, 1996
• Egg, 1995

Books

• Moonlight, Lydia Venieri, 2006
• Beyond Being, Lydia Venieri, 2000
• 60 Drawings for Healthy Perversions by Tzimy Panousi, 1995

Internet art

• Fin
• Her Story
• Apology
• Temple
• Tarot
• Isis

Theatre

• Set design for Sarah & Lorraine by Marc Israel-Le Pelletier, Sanford Meisner Theatre, New York.
• Set design for Sarah & Lorraine by Marc Israel-Le Pelletier, Storefront Theatre, Chicago.
• Set design for Hellenic Orchestra's tour of USSR, Soviet Union
• Set design & costumes for The Lady from Ancona, Anatolia of my Soul: 75 years since the Asian Minor Catastrophy, Theatre of Northern * * Greece, Drama & Lykabetus Theatre Atheans, 1997
• Set design for "Inventaires" de Philippe Minyana, directed by Elia Kountis, l'Institute Francais d'Athenes.
• Set design for Daphnis & Cloe, Octana Theatrical Group, Apothiki, Athens
• The lady form Ancona, Anatolia of my Soul: 75 years since the Asian Minor Catastrophy, Lykabetus Theatre, Athenia
• The Five Seasons, Dance theater Octana 1995

Awards and commissions

• Medal for Sculpture, Académie française de Paris, 2004
• Tower of Symbols, Open Air Sculpture, Central Athens, 2004
• Wall of Symbols, Sculpture, Atelier Mallet Stevens, Paris
• Lydia on Broadway, CD-ROM sponsored by Art Magazine and Hewlett Packard
• "Infinity", Collaboration with artist Takis on the sculpture.
• Commande en plein air d'une serie de sculpture Eros et Psyche, Fondation Alexandre Iolas, Athenes
• Commande d'une serie de sculptures pour l'Incitation à la Creation, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles
• Carte Blanche, a l'occation de l'anniversaire de 10 ans du Centre Georges Pompidou, Galeries Contemporaines, Paris
• Commande en plein air d'une serie de sculputre Eros et Psyche, Fondation Alexandre Iolas, Athenes
• Commande d'une serie de sculptures pour l'Incitation à la Creation, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles
• Carte Blanche, a l'occation de l'anniversaire de 10 ans du Centre Georges Pompidou, Galeries Contemporaines, Paris

References

1. ^ "Lydia Venieri, Anastasia Aukeman & Michael Skafidas: Theogony". Art On Air.Org. 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
2. Bibliographie D'histoire de L'art By Institut de l'information scientifique et technique (France), Getty Art History Information Program, Comité français d'histoire de l'art, College Art Association of America, Art Libraries Society of North America Published by Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Institut de l'information scientifique et technique, 1995 Item notes: vol.5 no.4 1995
3. École des Beaux-Arts
4. "What's New: March 1995". IASFBO.Inaf.it. 1995-03-01. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
5. By Aimé Césaire, Annick Thébia-Melsan, Gérard Lamoureux, Martinique Conseil régional, International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (Organization), Unesco Published by Maisonneuve & Larose, 2000 ISBN 2-7068-1423-3, ISBN 978-2-7068-1423-5
6. "i-D Concept Stores". Retrieved 2012-08-01.
7. "The Last Conflict, Stux Gallery, New York". Stux Gallery.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
8. "The Bathhouse of the Winds, Athens". Melt.gr. 2011-02-27. Archived from the original on 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
9. John, Molloy. "John Molloy Gallery". Retrieved 30 November 2017.
10. Stefan, Stux. "i-D ProjectArt Launch with Lydia Venieri's Exhibition". Retrieved 22 May 2017.
11. "'The Dolphin Conspiracy at the historic Bathhouse of the Winds". Retrieved 11 January 2011.
12. Venetia, Kapernekas. "Venetia Kapernekas Gallery". Retrieved 16 December 2009.
13. "The New York Public Library". Retrieved 1 May 2009.
14. "Gallery Terra Tokyo". Retrieved 1 May 2008.
15. Vanessa, Quang (10 February 2014). "Photographic Storytelling at Vanessa Quang Gallery". Retrieved 14 February 2014.
16. "Princeton University catalog". Retrieved 25 May 2011.
17. "OH, YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL Curated By Douglas F. Maxwell". Retrieved 26 January 2006.
18. "New York Public Library - An Art Book - Theogony". Retrieved 30 November 2011.
19. "Agra Editions". agra.gr.
20. Published by Reprotime, 2000, ISBN 960864643X
21. "Fin". Venieri.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
22. "Her Story". Venieri.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
23. "Apology". Venieri.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
24. "Temple". Venieri.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
25. "Tarot". Venieri.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-08-01.
26. "Isis". Venieri.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2012-08-01.

Further reading

• Nadja Argyropoulou (Author), Anastasia Aukeman (Author): 'Lydia Venieri: Theogony. Charta 2011. ISBN 978-8-88158-792-6

External links

• Official website
• An Art Book - Theogony
• Stux Gallery - Lydia Venieri
• Gallery Quang
• Galleri S.E, Norway
• lydia venieri on Vimeo
• International
• Lydia Venieri The Last Conflict

• 1964 births
• Living people
• House of Venier
• American contemporary painters
• American performance artists
• American installation artists
• American video artists
• Artists from Athens
• Greek digital artists
• Women digital artists
• Greek performance artists
• Greek painters
• Greek comics artists
• Artists from New York (state)
• 20th-century Greek women artists
• 21st-century Greek women artists
• 21st-century Greek artists
• 20th-century Greek sculptors
• 20th-century American painters
• 20th-century American women painters
• 21st-century American women painters
• 21st-century American painters
• Greek female comics artists