Pantelis sabaliotis

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Pantelis Sabaliotis with work in his studio

Pantelis Sabaliotis (Παντελής Σαμπαλιώτης; born April 10, 1955 in Agiopigi , Karditsa , Thessaly ; † October 28, 2011 in Berlin , Germany ) was a Greek artist, painter, sculptor and curator.

At the beginning of his artistic development, mythological themes and smaller formats on canvas or paper were primarily pastel, but since the middle of his career he has increasingly turned to abstract sculptures and object images. The last years of his creative career were characterized by large-format works, whereby he often used gold leaf and wax, mostly in the form of techniques such as encaustic, which have been used since ancient times . In his art, Greek mythology and philosophy are combined with the zeitgeist of today.

Life

childhood and education

Pantelis Sabaliotis was born in 1955 in a small Greek village on the Thessalian plain. His parents were farmers. He left school at the age of 14; from 1969 to 1971 he trained in Byzantine fresco painting . He worked in several Greek Orthodox churches. When larger commissions failed to materialize because of his very idiosyncratic interpretations of saints, he set off for Athens at the age of 16 to earn money from the giant cinema posters that were still hand-painted at the time. The peasant's supper was the name of his very first exhibition, which he showed in Karditsa in 1971 shortly before he left for Athens. In connection with a separate play and the experimental workshop for art , readings of books banned by the military junta should demonstrate for a free education policy.

In 1972 he was one of the co-founders of the Diamartiria gallery ( Protest ) in Athens - together with other young painters, poets and publishers, one of the a. a lyric series with poems from the resistance.

Artistic development

Following military service and the fall of the colonels , Pantelis Sabaliotis founded one of the first private art schools, the “School for Experimental Painting”, in Sofades, Karditsa, in 1977. From realistic painting - which primarily reflected village life - Sabaliotis quickly found his very own personal style via surrealism . Frequent motifs such as women, boats, horses, birds and ancient monuments on his pastel pictures, often with mythological content (series such as caryatids or women of Troy ) from the 1970s and 1980s condensed into increasingly disembodied forms. In Cordes-sur-Ciel , a medieval artist town in southern France, he created some of his first important abstract works between 1978 and 1982.

From 1989 the artist lived primarily in Greece again: from 1989 to 1993 on the artist island Hydra off the Peloponnese , where he began to experiment with natural materials and to develop his first objects; Hydra was followed by a few years in Athens .

Working and living in Berlin

In 1997 the artist moved to Berlin . From 2000 to 2010 he worked as a lecturer for youth in the museum in the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz and in the Pergamon Museum . In addition, he was involved in art projects in schools.

From March 2009 he worked for the district office in Mitte of Berlin as curator of the newly opened communal gallery Wedding “Art & Interculture” in the old town hall in Müllerstraße , whose profile and concept he shaped significantly. He did not forget his home country. In 2000 he designed the logo for the Greek Air Ambulance, in 2004 the logo for the competition of the writer Antonis Samarakis , with whom he was on friendly terms until his death.

Illness and death

In the summer of 2010, Pantelis Sabaliotis contracted lung cancer and died on October 28, 2011.

Awards

In 1986 he was awarded the Dimitra by the municipality of Karditsa, and in 2004 by the municipality of Plastiras / Thessaly for special services in art and culture.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

  • 1981: Poetic Awakening , Chateau du Bosc ( Musée d'Enfance de Toulouse Lautrec ), Aveyron, FR
  • 2001: Diachrona , Karditsa Pinakothek, GR
  • 2004: Liturgy , Historical Archive Museum, Hydra, GR
  • 2006: Metaplaseis , Maison Fonpeyrouge, Cordes-sur-Ciel, FR
  • 2008: Metaplaseis , Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
  • 2009: Kypseles , Galerie Wedding, Berlin
  • 2014: Retrospective , Théâtre d'Esch, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 1981: Women of Troy , Galerie au Roi Soleil, works by Pantelis Sabaliotis and Salvador Dalí
  • 1991: European Lifestyle , Tokyo
  • 2000: Museum of Byzantine Art, Ioannina, GR; Allegories of Matter, Willy Brandt House, Berlin
  • 2001: Artist of Greece , Greek Ministry of Culture, Technopolis, Gazi, Athens
  • 2013: under the skin. Encaustic in contemporary art , Galerie Wedding, Berlin

Workshops (selection)

  • 2002: Long Night of the Museums, Kulturforum Berlin
  • 2003: Performance Alles Fliess , Kulturnacht, Winckelmann-Haus, Stendal; Literary Culture Festival, Podewil, Berlin; Fairy tale days, Kulturforum Berlin
  • 2007: Winged bicycle - inside / outside , Alte Agora, Karditsa, GR

Working in public collections

  • Karditsa Pinakothek, GR;
  • Historical Archive Museum Hydra, GR;
  • Maison Fonpeyrouse, Cordes-sur-Ciel, FR

literature

  • Fotis Vogiatzis, The Thessalian Painting (1500–1980), pp. 313–314, Athens 1980
  • Dromologio I (Greek), Larissa Contemporary Art Center, 1997
  • Baedeker: Greece travel guide, special series: "Greeks Modernism", pp. 90–91, 1997, ISBN 3-87504-505-X
  • Allegories of Matter (Greek-German), Catalog 1999, pp. 58–63, Larissa Contemporary Art Center
  • Selides magazine, interview by Frosso Pavlou (Greek), pp. 45–50, 1999
  • Kunst Aktuell magazine, No. 6, 2000
  • Lexicon Ellinon Kallitechnon 16. – 20. Jh., Volume 4, pp. 137-38, Melissa Verlag, Athens 2000, ISBN 960-204-226-5
  • Karditsiotes Zografoi, eds: Nomarchiaki Autodioikisi Karditsas, pp. 136-139, Karditsa 2006; Exantas, Greek-German Journal Berlin, Issue No. 4, pp. 46–59, December 2006
  • Antipoden 2009, 2010, 2011, catalog Galerie Wedding, edited by Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin
  • Dimitrios Kalantzis, Antipodes / Antipodes, Greek-German, Monumentum Publishing House, Athens 2015, ISBN 978-960-9796-48-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Woche Wedding, March 11, 2009, p. 2, beeswax in the citizens' office. The new Wedding Gallery has opened in the Wedding Town Hall (Kypseles exhibition)
  2. ↑ Der Nordberliner, Mitte, March 12, 2009, p. 7
  3. ↑ Berlin Week: Gallery Wedding houses works of art made of wax. Retrieved March 21, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Sabaliotis, Pantelis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek artist, painter, sculptor and curator
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Agiopigi , Karditsa , Thessaly
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 2011
Place of death Berlin , Germany