Lydia Venieri

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- Name
- Lydia Venieri
- Born
- January 27th, 1964
- Birthplace
- Athens, Greece
- Field
- Sculpture, Painting, Photography
- Training
- 1984 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts
- Nationality
- United States · Greece
- Occupation
- painter · sculptor · comics artist · television producer · multimedia artist
- Fields
- art of sculpture
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Languages
- Modern Greek
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Biography
Biography
Lydia Venieri studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The recorded working language is Modern Greek. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Places of work recorded in the authority are Athens and Paris. Work by Lydia Venieri is recorded in the collections of Florina Museum of Modern Art.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Lydia Venieri • Born — January 27th, 1964 • Birthplace — Athens, Greece • Field — Sculpture, Painting, Photography • Training — 1984 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts • Works — Byron Codex, Byronic Heroes, Dolphin Conspiracy, Tomorrow, See No Evil, War Games, Forever After, Hibernation, Planetic Exodus, Telluric Manifesto, Platonic Big Bang • Website — https: www.venieri.com/ Lydia Venieri is a Greek artist.
Background
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.
As artist
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; 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
Works
• Illustration — Phallic Lotus, 2004 • Illustration — Madame Pompidou discussing with Lydia Venieri her sculpture installation, "La Femme Decoupee" during Carte Blanche at the Georges Pompidou Center, 1987
Projects
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
iPhone art
• Moonlight, 2009
Animations and movies
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
Internet art
Internet art
• Fin • Her Story • Apology • Temple • Tarot • Isis • Illustration — See No Evil, 911, 2008
Theatre
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
Books
• Moonlight, Lydia Venieri, 2006 • Beyond Being, Lydia Venieri, 2000 • 60 Drawings for Healthy Perversions by Tzimy Panousi, 1995
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Lydia Venieri”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q6707694: Lydia Venieri
General reference · Wikidata
Awards and commissions
• Illustration — Four meter tower built from iron for the Athens Olympics. here shown at Parthenis Darsilion, Athens, 2004 • 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
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Art On Air.Org. Lydia Venieri, Anastasia Aukeman & Michael Skafidas: Theogony. 2011-07-18.
- 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.IASFBO.Inaf.it. What's New: March 1995. 1995-03-01.
- 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 ,
- 6.i-D Concept Stores.
- 7.Stux Gallery.com. The Last Conflict, Stux Gallery, New York.
- 8.Melt.gr. The Bathhouse of the Winds, Athens. 2011-02-27.
- 9.John, Molloy. John Molloy Gallery.
- 10.Stefan, Stux. i-D ProjectArt Launch with Lydia Venieri's Exhibition.
- 11.'The Dolphin Conspiracy at the historic Bathhouse of the Winds.
- 12.Venetia, Kapernekas. Venetia Kapernekas Gallery.
- 13.The New York Public Library.
- 14.Gallery Terra Tokyo.
- 15.Vanessa, Quang. Photographic Storytelling at Vanessa Quang Gallery. 10 February 2014.
- 16.Princeton University catalog.
- 17.OH, YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL Curated By Douglas F. Maxwell.
- 18.New York Public Library - An Art Book - Theogony.
- 19.agra.gr. Agra Editions.
- 20.Published by Reprotime, 2000,
- 21.Venieri.com. Fin.
- 22.Venieri.com. Her Story.
- 23.Venieri.com. Apology.
- 24.Venieri.com. Temple.
- 25.Venieri.com. Tarot.
- 26.Venieri.com. Isis.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Nadja Argyropoulou (Author), Anastasia Aukeman (Author): Lydia Venieri: Theogony. Charta 2011.
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