Lydia Venieri


Lydia Venieri is a Greek artist.

Personal life

Background

Venieri was born in Athens, Greece. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. She has lived in Paris and is currently living in New York. Her web site dates from 1995, and showed some of the first Internet-based art.

Career

As artist

Venieri is well known
for her evocative sculpture installations which bridge mythology with current events, and for her ability to combine humor with self-reflection on human conditions in our times, through her characters that are taken from mythology, history, fairy tales and daily life. In her stories dreams reinforce reality and reality reinforce dreams.
The provocative visualizations of the universe of Venieri's work offer a Potnian statement about the world in flux in which we live.
She has had many exhibitions around the world.
She has been noted as;
She currently shows with Stux Gallery in New York, Gallery Quang in Paris, Galleri S.E in Norway, Tokyo Terra in Japan and Gallery Isabel Aninat in Chile.

Works

Projects

Byronic Heros, 2017Tarot of Love, 2017The Dolphin Conspiracy, 2011TOMORROW ~ PHOSPHOR STARS IN WHITE NIGHTS, 2009See No Evil, 2008WarGames, 2006For Ever After, 2004Hibernation - Sleeping Beauty Conscience, 2002

iPhone art

Moonlight, 2009

Animations and movies

The Dolphin Conspiracy, 2009Tomorrow, 2006Epilisy, 2005Last Conflict, 2005For Ever After, 2004Sleeping Beauty Conscience, 2002Martha, 1996Egg, 1995

Books

Moonlight, Lydia Venieri, 2006Beyond Being, Lydia Venieri, 200060 Drawings for Healthy Perversions by Tzimy Panousi, 1995

Internet art

FinHer StoryApologyTempleTarot
  • ''Isis''

Theatre

  • Set design for Sarah & Lorraine by Marc Israel-Le Pelletier, Sanford Meisner Theatre, New York.
  • Set design for Sarah & Lorraine by Marc Israel-Le Pelletier, Storefront Theatre, Chicago.
  • Set design for Hellenic Orchestra's tour of USSR, Soviet Union
  • Set design & costumes for The Lady from Ancona, Anatolia of my Soul: 75 years since the Asian Minor Catastrophy, Theatre of Northern * * Greece, Drama & Lykabetus Theatre Atheans, 1997
  • Set design for "Inventaires" de Philippe Minyana, directed by Elia Kountis, l'Institute Francais d'Athenes.
  • Set design for Daphnis & Cloe, Octana Theatrical Group, Apothiki, Athens
  • The lady form Ancona, Anatolia of my Soul: 75 years since the Asian Minor Catastrophy, Lykabetus Theatre, Athenia
  • The Five Seasons, Dance theater Octana 1995

Awards and commissions

Medal for Sculpture, Académie française de Paris, 2004Tower of Symbols, Open Air Sculpture, Central Athens, 2004Wall of Symbols, Sculpture, Atelier Mallet Stevens, ParisLydia on Broadway, CD-ROM sponsored by Art Magazine and Hewlett Packard"Infinity", Collaboration with artist Takis on the sculpture.Commande en plein air d'une serie de sculpture Eros et Psyche, Fondation Alexandre Iolas, AthenesCommande d'une serie de sculptures pour l'Incitation à la Creation, Abbaye de Montmajour, ArlesCarte Blanche, a l'occation de l'anniversaire de 10 ans du Centre Georges Pompidou, Galeries Contemporaines, ParisCommande en plein air d'une serie de Eros et Psyche, Fondation Alexandre Iolas, AthenesCommande d'une serie de sculptures pour l'Incitation à la Creation, Abbaye de Montmajour, ArlesCarte Blanche, a l'occation de l'anniversaire de 10 ans du Centre Georges Pompidou, Galeries Contemporaines, Paris