Apostolos Karakatsanis

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Born in Germany in 1970,  Apostolos Karakatsanis is a visual artist. Who lives and works in Athens, Greece

He has studied plastic arts and painting at Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece, painting at Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, photography and graphic design in Thessaloniki, Greece. From 2002 until 2014 he was teaching in University of Aegean in Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering.

In 2008 he had his second solo exhibition at AD Gallery in Athens.

His work has been exhibited in many group shows. He has made many in situ installations at urban and public spaces.

 

The artist investigates the issue of constructing the image through specific interpretations in the history of modernist art. The painting reveals abstract musical tunes through the aesthetics of the minimalistic object. A realistic representation of the fleeting play of light in the shade is concurrent. Karakatsanis attempts to convey the ambiguity in the sense of the lines, the volumes and the depth, causing the open reading of the image. His painting seems to bridge the gap between the dream and the real, between the concrete and the abstract.