Theodore Manolides

Theodore Manolides is one of Greece's most important contemporary artists, with many exhibitions in Greece, Europe and the United States to his credit. Through a realistic idiom which includes memories and inheritances from antiquity and Byzantium, as well as from folk art, Manolides has developed a highly individual style. His works open a dialogue with past and present, with symbols and allegories, with myths and everyday routines, with memories and enigmas of today which concern modern man on his journey through time, in his relation with life and with nature. These works of art display an exceptional skill and variety in drawing, colour and composition, which communicate a feeling of tangibility. Manolides' paintings are imbued with a vitality and monumentality that resist the erosion of time, throwing light on existential questions and bringing out insights into a cross-cultural heritage, especially the values which rise up through it, enriching and giving being to the humanistic demands of our times.
Athena Schina is a graduate of the Faculties of Philology and History and Archaeology of the University of Athens. In her post-graduate studies in France (Tours and the Sorbonne) and at Princeton in the United States she specialised in Art History. She now teaches the History and Theory of Art at the University of Athens. She has introduced the work of a large number of modern and contemporary Greek artists at many exhibitions and in her articles and books. She has also read papers at conferences and has represented Greece at international events (festivals and biennials) abroad with works by important artists.