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collectors spot

w Mykonos and can be found in the summer of Mykonos all played 1. "Mykonos" 3

(Biting as if a coin
summer landscape. "Mykonos",
an important role in his choice
the same sea that
"Adelos", "Linen Summer", "You
of colours and compositions.
gave you the very
shining the very
“I wanted the vibrancy of the
have a taste of the tempest on your
Ambassador of Art lips" - all connect Mykonos, the paintings to complement the you seek)*
light the meaning
Cyclades, the Aegean and the poet
tranquility of the rooms and to
70x180cm. Mixed
media on canvas.
hat is interesting about Odysseas Elytis with the hotel for give a sense of daydreaming. 2015.
After all, this type of painting is
which they have been specially
2. "Linen
Art is a blessing. It makes you enjoy the contemporary Greek art is that it commissioned. The original oil directed more at the senses than suMMer" Mixed
media on canvas.
moments without losing the value of reveals the exuberance of modern- paintings were exhibited in the the mind”. These stimuli gave 2015.
Ambassador’s suites in the summer
Stergios Stamos the prototypical
day Greece. At the Myconian
quality. At the Myconian Ambassador Relais Ambassador Relais & Chateaux of 2015, while numbered copies materials with which to work: 3. sMoker rider
Alekos Fassianos
& chateaux, the Greek art of Stergios art hotel in Platis Gialos, four have been printed for all the “My piece entitled “Adelos” 65X 88 cm
Mixed media
original works by Greek painter
makes reference to Delos which in
other rooms. The painter himself
Stamos is inspired by this unique island. Stergios Stamos tell a story of reveals that the hotel’s minimalist Greek mythology, before Apollo on paper attached
on canvas
their own - one that enchants white environment, the blue and Artemis were associated 4. untitLed
by Despoina Sampson the visitor to the Aegean and of the sea and the exceptional with the island, was presumed to Dimitris Dallas
drift and have no fixed position 90X120 cm
Mixed media
1 because its flat terrain suffused on canvas
in sunlight made it difficult to *In brackets are
distinguish in the Aegean waters. verses from poems
In “Linen Summer”, the favoured by Odysseas Elytis.
summer fabric and the colour 4
yellow are evocative of Greek
summers in the Cyclades. When Βio focus
Greek art shares international Stergios Stamos
artistic currents and creatively studied at the
incorporates elements of our land, Fine Arts School
it can find the appropriate space in Thessaloniki
to be displayed and communicate (B. Dimitreas
with people from far and wide. workshop) 1984-
“That certainly happens here and 1989. His works are
I am happy about it. Especially in the Emfietzoglou
in Mykonos, we have the great Gallery Museum,
advantage that foreigners come to in the Macedonian
our country. By displaying Greek Museum of
art in the hotel, the Daktylides Contemporary Art,
family offers great opportunities in the L. Beltsios
2
to Greek artists”, says the artist. Collection, in the
Indeed, since the summer of Cultural Center of
2015, his works have frequently Contemporary Art
been exhibited in the suites and in Larissa, in the
attracted the buying interest BOSCH Collection,
of hotel guests who call on the in the Komotini
Kapopoulos Fine Arts Gallery Art Museum, at the
in Mykonos which represents entrance of the Paros FROM ALEKOS FASIANOS TO DIMITRI DALLAS
Stergios Stamou’s work. Park in Naoussa Two very different artists represent the present and future of domestic
This year, three new paintings of Paros and in art. Alekos Fassianos, one of the most important Greek artists, portrays
by famous Greek artists from private collections. symbols of everyday Greek life with his distinctive style. Acknowledged
the exclusive collection of the The Kapopoulos in the international and Greek art world, he has been honoured by France
Kapopoulos Fine Arts Gallery Fine Arts gallery in with the order of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and decorated by the
(Alekos Fassianos, Dimitris Mykonos (Enoplon Academy of Athens. Dimitris Dallas is the new blood of the artistic scene.
Dallas and Vaggelis Choursoglou) Dynameon 15, Born in Athens in 1982, he studied graphic design and computer graphics
were added to the hotel premises Central Matogianni, DTP & web design. He too is inspired by everyday life, by the people he
and further underscore the 846 00) has taken meets, the events he observes and the messages he takes in. Spray paint,
Ambassador’s character as an on the promotion of acrylic, marker pens and spatulas all lend a fluidity and a sense of movement
‘art hotel’. his works. to his work, which makes his creations very dynamic.

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