Professor
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Io Angeli is a painter, Professor of Fine Arts at the University of West Attica, School of Applied Arts, Department of Interior Architecture.
She studied Political Sciences at the Panteion University and Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, graduated with honors, continued her postgraduate studies, with a scholarship, at the Royal College of Art (MA 1988-1990) and Central Saint Martins (AD 1990-1991) in London.
She has participations as an organizer / teacher in postgraduate and research workshops:
- Design Investigation of the relationship between the structured and the natural environment/ visual interventions, UNIWA
- Interior Design and Audiovisual Documentation, UNIWA
Founding member of the “Archipelagos”, nonprofit urban company, for the study and promotion of research on cultural development issues of Aegean.
Angeli’s painting explores the fluidity of space through multiple perspectives. She cancels the boundaries between public and private space. It is space that is absorbed by another space, while the faces appear to have made their peace with this confusion of the limits. The paintings evoke less a specific location than a state of mind. Angeli’s work strikes a balance between an ostensibly figurative style and tendency to abstraction. These are pictures that move beyond description, fuelled as they are not just by a deep engagement with the possibilities of paint, but with the intermingling of memories concept. A particular bank of personal data is combined, providing the viewer with symbols that are decoders of a very dense illustration, a realistic view of space, is ruled out.
She has presented her work in 18 solo exhibitions and has taken part in many thematic group exhibitions in Greece and abroad (art Athena, Biennale) and has collaborated with the Zoumboulakis Gallery in Athens.