Dimitra Tserkezou
Dimitra Tserkezou was a Greek sculptor.
Tserkezou was born in Istanbul to a Greek family who then moved to Athens, where she graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in 1946; she went also to Milan where she practiced metal moulding art from 1966 to 1971. Her first participation was at the 4th Panhellenic Exposition in 1952 and her two first individual expositions took place in 1953 at Thessaloniki. Since then, she developed an artistical activity participating at many salons and expositions in Piraeus, Athens, Milan, Rome, Turin, Paris, Strasbourg, Monaco, Deauville, Biaritz, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Quebec etc.
Forty of her statues decorate public places and gardens in Greece as well as many collections.
Her art is neorealist and figurative in a simple, expressive and dynamic construction; her compositions are full of humanism ; she gives life to the hard materials of marble, bronze, cement and new metals.
Awards
- Silver medal at the International Exposition "Quadriennale d'Europa", Rome 1966.
- Silver medal at the International Exposition "Città del Sole", Rome 1966.
- Silver medal at the Exposition "Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea", Rome 1968.
- Gold medal by the Tommazo Campanella Academy, Rome 1972.
- Gold medal "Burckhardt Campidoglio d'Oro" by Bruckhardt Academy, Rome 1979.
Memberships
- Associate member of the Société des Artistes Français
- member of the Association des Artistes Indépendants
- council member of the "Επιμελητήριο Εικαστικών Τεχνών Ελλάδος"
- member of the Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Γλυπτών
- honorary member of the International Academy Tommazo Campanella
- member of Societá per le belle arti ed esposizione permanente