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Thomai Kontou
Thomai Kontou
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  • Elassona
  • Greece
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Human Colours, Music at Greece

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November 10, 2010 to November 15, 2010
Call for pARTicipation – “Donate a chance at life”-Part twoHere is my open call for a charitable mail art Exhibition. Please help me spread the call as much as possible all over the planet, so spread it as much as you can.Human Colours, MusicInternational MAIL ART Exhibition in ThessalonikiNovember 2010On the occasion of the slogan “Donate a chance at life” of the Hellenic Society of Haematology, we are organizing a Mail Art exhibition in Athens, Greece and we are inviting artists from all over…See More
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International Mail Art Exhibition in Athens at Greece

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June 21, 2010 to June 28, 2010
Call for pARTicipationHuman, Colours, MusicInternational MAIL ART Exhibition in Athens21-28 June 2010On the occasion of the slogan “Donate a chance at life” of the Hellenic Society of Haematology, we are organizing a Mail Art exhibition in Athens, Greece and we are inviting artists from all over the world to participate and donate, with their work, the blood of life for their fellow-man.Title: Human, Colours, MusicTechnique: free.Format: painting, drawing, print, collage, Envelopes, Postcards,…See More
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Thomai Kontou and Mateusz SIENIEWICZ are now friends Jan 8, 2010
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Thomai Kontou and Isabell von Piotrowski are now friends Dec 31, 2009
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shells and pebbles of Aegean Sea

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From the unit “shells and pebbles of Aegean Sea” - “symbols of travel”
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Name
Thomai
Artistic Medium
painting, aquarelle, oil, egg tempera,
Birthplace
Elassona Greece
Influences
magic realism
In the works...
Travelling as odyssey

The primitive symbol of shell, I have chosen
In order to describe the sounds - the paths of sea and the symbols of people travelling through it.
- I always have as a starting line a shell – of those you can hear the sea ˙
paper boats, or portrayed in the hope devotion,
welfare handkerchiefs ,
missing letters,
small human objects of distress of return,
the travel that everywhere is implied,
the escape that is asked.
Are often entrenched with one red spinner tied up….
the fairy tale is beginning,
the travel of life is beginning too.

Thomai Kontou
About me in general...
Thomai Kontou

CURRICULUM VITAE

Thomai Kontou learned sketching from 1971 to 1978 in Athens, in the Vrassida Vlahopoulos and Theodoros Drossos ateliers. She was taught painting by Yannis Tsarouhis, while she learned the Fresco Technique by Dimitris Kostopoulos.
She is continuously present in the Artistic area since 1973 with 22 individual exhibitions and has taken part in 263 group shows in Greece and abroad. She participated in 15 BIENNALES: 1996 in Belgrade, 1998 in Mexico, 1999 and 2001 in Pisa – Italy and in 2002 and 2004 in Poland, 2005 in Nikcic - Serbia and Ankara – Turkey. 2006 in Victoria – Canada, and in the International Spanish Flu Mail Art Biennial in Hungary. 2007 in “2 Medial Art Biennial”in London, England. 2008 in “small format biennale” in Venezuela and “2 Spanish flu” in Hungary. 2007 it is one from the two Greek attendances that took part in the program "Scenes and Sounds of My City" that was co-organised by the central UNESCO in Paris and the Sharjah Biennial 8, the United Arab Emirates. She was selected by the Internal Committee it takes part in Florence Biennale 2007. 2007 in Larissa – Greece in the 1st International mail art Biennale in Greece
Her works are influenced by the Aegean Sea, its stones and shells, by the Universal flows and the Angels’ Plasmas.
Works of her can be found in private collections in Greece, Cyprus, Germany, USA, Italy, Japan, Spain, Brazil. They can also be found in the Navy’s collection in the “Averoff” warship and in the following Museums: “Transparent Museum of Art” in Belgrade and the Post “Denmark Museum of Art” in Copenhagen. Also in Sgourda’s Collection “Contemporary artistic èventail” in Athens, and Beijing Natural Culture Center, in China.
The Greek Navy has dedicated to her the 53d special edition of “Navy Intellectual Culture”, while she has been included in the artistic sector of the “Navy Encyclopedia”, in the “Painters meeting” folio, and the Greek Artists’ Lexicon edited by “Melissa”.
Under the Auspices of the Organization “Cultural Capitol of Europe – Thessaloniki ‘97”, her folio “Aegean Shells” was edited in June 1997. It contained 10 cards from her paintings.
In 1998 she sketched the scenery and costumes for the play “Our own yard” by Vangelis Colonas, which was performed in Larissa in cooperation with the “Theater of Thessaly”. She is organized and she is the curator of the 1st international mail art exhibition in Greece>> in Elassona and Athens.
Now she organises having the figurative assiduity, the «1st mail art Biennale in Greece», the “mail art for refugees in Greece”, in collaboration with the Greek Council for refugees. As “The Argonautic Expedition mail art”.
Check out my website
http://www.artwanted.com/kontou

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At 10:11pm on December 27, 2009, one world one artone world one art said…
Hello Thomai. Welcome to OWOA. Happy to have you here.
 
 
 

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