COSTAS VAROTSOS
Costas Varotsos is a renowned greek sculptor. Born in Athens in 1955, he studied in Italy both arts and architecture in the Art Academy of Rome and at the University of Pescara.
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Redefining the boundaries between art and the environment, he reinvented the way to work with glass with his monumental sculptures.
His art demonstrates his unique ability to play with light and minimalist structures, reinventing public spaces by giving them the magic of seemingly floating and grandiose sculptures.
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Worldy acclaimed, his work has become an emblem for many cities such as the "Poet" in Nicosia or "the runner" in Athens. His sculptures in the public spaces create a strong bond between people and art, nature and art and possible and impossible.
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STUDIES
1973-76 Academia di Belle Arti, Rome
Universita di Pescara, Architecture
Fullbright Grant, 1990-91, New York
1999 Elected Professor of the Aristotle University
of Thessaloniki in 1999
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1990 Ruben Forni gallery Brussels curator Emmy Varouxaki
1991 de Europa ( Cultural center of the city of Athens) curator Emmy Varouxaki cooperation withAchille Bonito Oliva
1992 International symposium on Marble Sculpture Thasos
2008 Horizon 2008, Murano Hotel, Tacoma, Washington, USA, Public artwork
2007 Future through the past, Athens, Greece, curated by Charis Kanellopoulou
Horizon-Geraki, Geraki, Sparta, Laconia, Greece, public artwork
2006 Horizon 4, Certosa di Padula, Salerno, Italy, public artwork
Untitled, Bernstrasse, Steffisburg, Switzerland, public artwork
2005 Untitled, scenery for the Antigone representation at Epidaurous theater, Director S.Tsakiris
2004 Untitled, 166 Pireos st. building, Athens, Greece, public artwork
Labyrinth, ARCO 2004, Madrid, Spain
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
Untitled, Douk. Plakentias Metro Station, Athens, Greece
2003 Untitled, Aghios Ioannis Rentis, central square, Athens, Greece, public artwork
Contiguous Currents, City Hall square, Palm Beach, Miami, Florida, USA, public artwork
Untitled, Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C., USA, public artwork
La Luna, Parco Casilino Labicano, Rome, Italy, public artwork
Untitled, Parco Sculture di Chianti, Pievasciata (Siena), Italy
Untitled, Buccheri, Sicily, Italy
2001 Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
The Foundation of Hellenic Culture, New York, USA
Untitled, Kreisel Zurichstrasse Bützberg, Switzwerland
Horizon, San Diego, California, USA
2000 C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, USA
National Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
1999 Giorgio Persano Gallery, Turin, Italy
Untitled, Piazza Benefica, Turin, Italy, public artwork
Tobey Moss Gallery, International Biennal, Los Angeles, California, USA
Fiera di Bologna, Italy
1998 Castello di Roccascalegna, Abruzzo, Italy
Horizons, Muhka Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Horizon, Agios Konstantinos, Pyrgos Korinthias, Greece [Public Work]
1997 Arco Di Rab Gallery, Rome, Italy
Sculpture The Poet of Casacalenda, Community of Casacalenda, Italy [Public Work]
Untitled, Mc Cormick Center, Chicago, USA [Public Work]
1996 Anti-Pop, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens Greece
Horizon, Sani, Halkidiki [Public Work]
1995 Giorgio Persano Gallery, Torino, Italy
Spiral, Laiki Bank, Nicosia Cyprus [Public Work]
Lola Nicolaou Gallery, Thessaloniki, Greece
Sculpture Globe, Airport of Thessaloniki, Greece [Public Work]
1994 The Runner, reconstruction of the 1988 work, Athens Greece
Klepsydra, European Cultural Center of Delphi, , Delphi, Greece [Public Work]
1993 Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
Sprovieri Gallery, Rome, Italy
Mylos, Thessaloniki, Greece
1992 Paesagio con Rovine, Gibellina, Italy [Public Work]
Arte Roma, Palazzo di Congressi, Rome, Italy
Leiman Gallery, New York, USA
1991 Tokyo rt Expo, Tokyo, Japan
3 Gallery, Athens, Greece
Anelixis, Interamerican Plazza, Athens, Greece [Public Work]
Giorgio Persano Gallery, Milano, Italy
1990 Ruben Forni Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece
Horizon, Aristotelous Square, Thessaloniki, Greece [Public Work]
1989 Arco Di Rab Gallery, Rome, Italy
1988 The Runner, Omonia square, Athens, Greece [Public Work]
1986 Dracos Art Center, Athens, Greece
1983 The Poet, DESTE Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus [Public Work]
Centrosei Gallery, Bari, Italy
1982 Desmos Gallery, Athens, Greece
1981 Gallery 2000, Bologna, Italy
1980 Centro Culturale Govergence, Pescara, Italy
1979 Spazo Tempo, ISIA, Rome, Italy
Mauric Rennaissance Gallery, Pescara, Italy
1978 Mauric Rennaissance Gallery, Pescara, Italy
Centro Culturale Govergence, Pescara, Italy
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