ジョージ アンドゥルーツォス展
George Androutsos Exhibition
ジョージ アンドゥルーツォス氏は主に木炭とチョークを用い奔放でダイナミックな タッチで人物ポートレートを描くギリシャ人アーティストです。 世界的にも評価が高く、数々の受賞歴を誇り、多くのファンを獲得しています。 ジョージ アンドゥルーツォス氏は2019年にSZK GALLERYで開催された 「湘南国際ファインアート展2019（https://szkannex.wixsite.com/sifae2019）」に 参加されたのがきっかけで、当展覧会の開催に至りました。 今回はギリシャから直送されたポートレート原画１６作品を展示いたします。 躍動感みなぎるモノトーンの画面から溢れ出るエネルギーをどうぞたっぷりと 間近でご堪能ください。 是非ご高覧を賜りますよう、謹んでお願い申し上げます。
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展覧会名：ジョージ アンドゥルーツォス展
日 時：２０２５（令和７）年５月１７日（土）～ ６月１日（日）
１１時３０分～１８時 月曜休み 入場無料
会 場：SZK GALLERY
〒２５３−００４３ 神奈川県茅ヶ崎市元町４−３２
主 催：SZK GALLERY
ホームページ http://www.szk.jp
問合せ：SZK GALLERYメール design@szk.jp
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Now, SZK GALLERY will be holding the "George Androutsos Exhibition" as follows.
George Androutsos is a Greek artist who mainly uses charcoal and chalk to paint portraits of
people with a free-spirited and dynamic touch. He is highly acclaimed worldwide, has won
numerous awards, and has gained many fans. (See Document 1) George Androutsos
participated in the "Shonan International Fine Art Exhibition 2019 (https://szkannex.wixsite.com/sifae2019)" held at SZK GALLERY in 2019, which led to the holding of
this exhibition. He is also scheduled to visit Japan in conjunction with this exhibition. This
time, we will be exhibiting 16 original portraits (see Document 2) shipped directly from
Greece. Please enjoy the energy that oozes from the dynamic monochrome screen up close.
We sincerely hope you will come and view the works.
Date and time: May 17th (Saturday) to June 1st (Sunday), 2025 (Reiwa 7)
11:30-18:00 Closed on Mondays Free admission
Venue: SZK GALLERY
4-32 Motomachi, Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture,Japan 253-0043
Organized by: SZK GALLERY
Homepage: http://www.szk.jp
Inquiries: SZK GALLERY email design@szk.jp
George Androutsos was born in 1976 in Athens.
He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle Univercity of Thessaloniki,
he also studied Physics (AUTH) and holds a Master's Degree (MA) in History of Philosophy from AUTH. Finally, he holds a PhD in Aesthetics at NTUA.
He teaches drawing at the University of Peloponnese.
He is a member of the Chamber of Visual Arts of Greece and the Hellenic Society of
Aesthetics, he also participates in the international artistic movement Neutral-ism (Francesco
Perili) and has participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
He also has 5 solo exhibitions in Greece, France and Spain (Barcelona, Paris, Nice Cote d'Azur, Athens).
His work has been presented on various sites, online magazines, newspapers, etc.
His works graced the set of television shows: "Emma's house" and "We stay at home" of Mega Channel, a tribute to Theodorakis-Tsitsanis, by G. Dalaras, as well as book covers.
Also, his work has been selected through international commissions in several Drawing Biennales,such as: International Biennial of Drawing Pilsen 2014 Czech Rep., Osten Biennial of Drawing 2016, 2018, 2022 Skopia. INTERBIFEP International Biennial of Portrait, Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina 2018, 2022.
Shonan International Fine Art Exhibition, Modern to Contemporary, SZK Gallery, Kanagawa‒Ken, Japan 2019. Salon International De Arte Y Cultura, Ciudad de Melilla, Spain 2018.
Finally, he has been awarded by international platforms and associations: Premier Artist Prize 2024, Contemporary Art Station, 2024.
The Faces of Peace Art Prize 2022, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, 2022. Power of Creativity Art Prize 2021 by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, 2021. Artist of the Future AWARD, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine 2020.
Finalist, Osten Biennial of Drawing Skopje 2022.
Semifinalist, ArtBox Project New York 01, ArtBox Projects, 2018.
Honorable Mention Award distinction among 1072 artists for the Artist of the Year 2017, Circle Foundation for the Arts, 29/1/2018.
Finalist Award, top 50 contest finalists competing for exhibition at Art Expo NY USA,
Circle Foundation for the Arts, 6/12/2017.
Circle Affiliate Artist Certificate, Circle Foundation for the Arts, and 1st Drawing Prize in the 4th Panhellenic Competition of SKETVE for non-members and the first prize of the exhibition as a whole, 2014.
Statement
I usually paint and draw faces in an abstract way using charcoal and chalk on paper.
I chose this manner of expression because I believe Drawing is the poetry of painting and it represents the fundamental conflict; black and white, the empty space and the complete, to move and to stop.
All of them are perpetually interweaved in the painting seekingcompletion.
This way of revealing the opposites through procedures of conflict or harmony confirms the historic times of human passions through anonymity itself.
This means that the anonymous human face has a key role in my drawings.
However the person and her passions are nothing but a part of the whole, which doesn’ t seek to bring out the soul-searching or other psychological implications.
Real life is what this portraits are about.
The mean itself, the humble charcoal on paper, gives a finite dimension in the ... idea of values, an historical approach in things that seem timeless.
The figures are like dissolving in the paper just as conditions of every histroric period are.
However, this distortion keeps the grandeur of something beyond time.
So, this figures diffused by pensil and eraser resemble of statues, cerated busts, which are naked from the sacrilegious marks of the present, with the historical sperm of timeless and the definite grimace from the burden of the passions that the future brings.
