Giota Tzotzoli

Painter | Greece

Yiota Tzotzoli is a visual artist based in Athens, primarily working with painting as her medium of expression. She studied Agriculture, worked in the maritime sector, and concurrently engaged with photography and painting over the past 10 years. Her works are held in private collections. She collaborates with ARC – Art Revisited Collective since April 2022.

Statement

My artworks are photographic psychographs, with personal and societal anchors. In my paintings, I prefer using acrylics in combination with a variety of materials, with a sculptural pursuit aimed at highlighting textures and forms. This process holds a psychoanalytical character for me. It’s a kind of ritual, through which internal aspects of myself surface, sometimes unknown even to me, with a tendency towards the imaginative.

AT A GLANCE

Genre: Painting
Medium: Acrylics and Oils on Canvas, Inks on Paper
Style: Non-representational, Abstract Expressionism
Themes: Conceptual and existential, exploration of form
Workshop: Neo Faliro, Athens, Greece
Associations: None
Price Range: €300-2500
International Scale:
EMERGING | HIGH-POTENTIAL | MID-CAREER | ESTABLISHED

RECENT ARTWORKS

CAREER LANDMARKS

INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATIONS

7th Art Thessaloniki Fair, TIF-HELEXPO, Thessaloniki 2024 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

The Odyssey of the True Self, conceived and curated by Vera Katranidou, Luminous Eye Gallery, Athens 2024 

Anthropogeographies, conceived and curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2024

Transitions & Passages, annual exhibition of members & friends of ARC – Art Revisited Collective, Luminous Eye Gallery, Athens 2024

Freedom & Creation: Bonds without Chains, conceived and curated by Paris Kapralos and Vera Katranidou, organized by ARTgrID, Luminous Eye Gallery, Athens 2023

The Visible and the Invisible, conceived and curated by Paris Kapralos, organized by ARTgrID, Luminous Eye Gallery, Athens 2023

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Steps & Paths, annual exhibition of the ARC – Art Revisited Collective of visual artists, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2023 

Gesture and Symbolism, conceived and curated by Paris Kapralos, organized by ARTgrID, Luminous Eye Gallery, Athens 2023

New Symbols 2, conceived and curated by Iason Kairofilas & Paris Kapralos, organized by ARC – Art Revisited Collective, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022

Archetype & Conjecture, curated by Paris Kapralos, Chili Art Gallery, Athens 2022

SKG Bazaart, curated by Paris Kapralos, Myrό Gallery, Thessaloniki 2022

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ARTWORKS

CRITICAL APPROACH

The artworks of  Yiota Tzotzoli are characterized by forms with intense action and expressiveness, with movement and plasticity, which can place her within the realm of abstract expressionism as it is conceived today. Exploring further into form and movement, the painter presents works with dual intermediation: the conceptual content is embodied through a formal process and transcribed onto paper solely as a representation of motion or spatial arrangement. Through improvisation and the utilization of a free form, cohesive relationships are explored and traversed. Her formalization is equally inscribed in space and time. On a conceptual level, the works convey emotions and initiate a dialogue with the viewer, serving as a vehicle for expressing personal feelings and depicting states of the mind and soul. Existential matters permeate the work of Yiota Tzotzoli.

–Paris Kapralos
Art Curator