Ioanna Xanthopoulou | Figures

“It is obvious that in her works, the sketch is her first priority. The sketch is the most important element of the painting language, always present even when in the finished work is not clear. There the boundaries of shapes, colors, or tones are what define the work, the hidden sketch, its ‘hidden geometry’. And after the path of the first decade, of more" conventional "solutions, she follows another way ... She draws her model directly on the canvas with brush and black color like she draws with pencil or ink on paper, quickly freely, critical without looking for clear outlines. The lines run effortlessly. They chase the subject and express it ... The color comes in another phase and another place. A place that is exploited to its full.” (Thodoros Pantos)...more

Ioanna Xanthopoulou was born in 1965 in Germany. She studied painting at the School Veloudaki (1986-1989), taught by Thodoros Pantos. She has participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. She is a member of EETE She has held solo exhibitions in gallery SYN (Athens 1992), gallery AENAON (Athens 1998, 2003, 2005, 2007), the Uber Gallery (Australia 2005) and Kourd Gallery (Athens 2011). [Biography updated on: 10/9/2012]