YANNIS KOUTSOURADIS, Sculptor
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BIOGRAPHY
Yannis Koutsouradis was
born in Athens, Greece.
Education
Athens School of Fine
Arts, 1969-1975, Diploma in Sculpture, under Yannis Pappas
Central / Saint Martin’s School of Art, in Conjunction to
the Royal College of art London, 1987 – ’88, ADV
Diploma. Research on Enamelled Steel Sculpture, under Alan Gauk
Rietveld Academie / Beeldende Kunst, Amsterdam, Project,
Enamelled Steel Sculpture,
1989 - 1992, under René van der Land
Awards
Fellow Member of the
British Council - Awarded for Master of Arts for London. The
Greek National Scholarship Foundation Award for The Netherlands,
(2 years). Awarded a State Sculpture Price of The Netherlands. Praises of the Dutch cities
Katwijk and Etten-Leur. Appointed personal member to The
Institute of Vitreous Enamellers of Great Britain.
Commissions in public
Open-Air Sea Sculpture
Projects for the Over-Ocean Vessels:
‘Century’, ‘Galaxy’ and
‘Mercury’, United States of America I, II Sculpture
Groups / Fountain, for the ‘Dassia’ Hotels &
Resorts, Corfu, Greece. The II World War Resistance Bronze
Memorial, Harbour of Chios, Greece. Various busts in marble or
bronze of well-known
International shows
XXIV International
Drawing Prize, Juan Miró Museum, Barcelona. Contemporary
Sculpture, B.D.H.X. (House of People’s Achievements),
Moscow. 13th Pan-Hellenic Exhibition, Zappeion Expo Centre,
Athens. Fine Art Summer Exhibition, Saint Martin’s
Galleries, London. La
Sculpture Contemporaine ’91, Maison de l Architecture,
Paris. Sculpture at the river Vecht, Gallery Vromans,
Maarssen, the Netherlands. Jahresausstellung ’92, Pavillion
am Hofgarten, Coburg, Germany 10 Contemporary Sculptors, Gallery
‘K’, London 1st International Water Biennale, Bathmen -
Overijsel, The Netherlands 30 European Enamellers, KunstHall
‘HOF 88’, Almelo, The Netherlands III Email
International, Ehrenburg Palace, Coburg / Bavaria, Germany Sculpture-Enamel ’96,
State Museum Rijswijk, The Hague Cultural Capital of Europe,
White-Tower Gardens, Thessalonica World Festival of Art on Paper
’00, Ljubljana, Slovenia ‘Euro feu’,-
l’Art de 31 Pays Européens, La Foire Internationale, Liège, Belgium Contemporary Sculpture,
Apollo Hall, Bucharest, Romania Beelden-Buiten-Binnen
Oud-Borne, Beeldenroute ’00, The Netherlands 4es Rencontres
Internationales de l’Email, Morez / Le Sentier, France /
Switzerland II Internationales Kunst Festival ’01,
Magdeburg, Germany 18th International Biennale for Creative
Design, Kortrijk, Belgium 6th International Biennale, Ville
Marie, Québec, Canada Homage to Y.
Pappas, Hellenic National Bank / Cultural Foundation, Athens 5th
Triennale of Sculpture ‘Kunst op het Water’, Leuven,
Belgium Cultural Olympiad /‘The Olympic Spirit’,
Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Year-Travelling Expo in
Museums Expo’03, Opening of the International Culture
Park Westerpark, Amsterdam ‘Vitreous Enamel on Steel - New
Sculpture’, The British Council, Athens Lectures
‘Sculpture + Colour’ Symposium ’91, Scironio
Museum, Greece ‘Ancient Sculpture of an Island’,
Saint Martin’s School of Art, London ‘Large Scale
Enamelling’, The Netherlands’
Yannis Koutsouradis has
introduced to open-air sculpture a new perspective on colour, together with the
materials of porcelain-enamel on stainless steel, thus enriching, in contradiction to
‘monochrome’ materials, our living environment.
He has written and translated texts about sculpture and periodically has given drawing courses; he is a member of European Art Federations.
