FILIPPOS TSITSOPOULOS (Athens, 1967) Greek artist living between Madrid, Liverpool and Athens. A visual thinker that offers a good analysis of the current world starting from a cultured compilation of almost all the Arts of the Past. His beginnings are on the floor of the family home, where the artist's father stretched rolls of paper so that his child could paint with markers without "feeling limitations of sizes". This fact is the key to understand the intensive use of techniques and disciplines that bring him to pronounce his own artistic discourse based on analytical tribute to the history of art. Filippos Tsitsopoulos is an installation, video theatre and performance media artist who has worked in the field of interactive theatre installation art exploring the limits of performance as well as in painting since 1990. His practice engages the spectator/participant to a new theater or rather a system of including theater as a catalyst of our daily life Concepts that belongs to the theatre, traditional theatre, modern theatre are applying to visual arts observing the effects that these concepts can produce in the "image" as plasticity behaviour.With the use of self made masks made from living materials and animals or plants is constructing parallel equivalents that enclose and juxtaposing temporally disproportionate elements. His video installations have been exhibited in a numerous exhibitions and art fairs and events STUDIES 1991 Master on Irony in Art, Department of Fine Arts, University Complutense of Madrid, Scholarship of Fundación Eugenides 1990 Graduated in Fine Arts at University of Aristotelion, Tesalonica 1988 Eramus at University of Fine Arts in Berlin SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 Chris Hawtin with Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery Athens 2014 The Cabinet of Curiosities of Mr. Bonsai, Liebre Gallery Madrid. Talk by Fernando Castro 2014 Neoromanticismo PhotoEspana 2014 Jose Luis Lopez Moral & Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Liebre Gallery Madrid 2014 The Cabinet of Curiosities of Mr. Bonsai, Art Hobler Gallery Zurich 2014 Arcimboldo- Beckett Kir Royal Gallery Valencia 2014 The Cabinet of Curiosities of Mr. Bonsai, Performance and Video Installation, The BlueCoat, Liverpool, UK 2014 The Grimaces Competition, Freies Museum Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2014 The Cabinet of Curiosities of Mr. Bonsai, Paradise Is the New Hell, Video and Performance Installation, Papay Gyros Festival 2014, Orkney, Scotland 2013 The Cabinet of Curiosities of Mr. Bonsai, Performance and Video Installation, Empire Project Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey 2013-14 The Food Itself, C & C Gallery, London, UK 2013-14 Paradise Is the New Hell, Batagianni Gallery, Athens, Greece 2013 The Food Itself, Performance and Video Installation, Camp and Furnace, Liverpool, UK 2012 Sacrificio - Pelegrinatio 2012, Curator Fernando Castro Florez, Valencia, Spain 2012 Metabolism of Forms - The Cabinet of Curiosities of Mr. Bonsai, Hunterian Museum, London, UK 2012 Theatricality of Edmund Trauma Berg, Video Performance, Tempus Arti 2012, Flanders, Belgium 2012 Craze, Video Theatre Installation, Podium DAK, Geldrop, Netherlands 2012 Camouflage Art War, Stadt Galerie, Salzburg, Austria 2012 The Madrigal of the Explosion of the Wise Whale, Video Theatre Installation, Papay Gyros Festival 2012, Bergen, Norway; Orkney, Scotland; Hong Kong, China 2011 Feldeinsamkeit, BONE 14, Festival für Aktionskunsk in Bern, Cur. Norbert Klassen, Berna, Swiss 2011 Just a Laugh, Just a Cry, Video Installation, FACT, Liverpool, UK 2011 The Kunst Camera, Performance and Video Installation, Hunterian Museum, London, UK http://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/events/... Filippos Tsitsopoulos presents: Cabinet of Curiosities of Mr. Bonsai - performance and video installation Here Fililippos presents a live performance and video installation of his project. "The Cabinet of Curiosities of Mr. Bonsai", consists in the recreation of an encyclopedic projected video portrait collection with Renaissance like types of objects, where the performer taking all the roles, in his video monologues and performances. He s staying in the middle of his own collected Universe world. Sharing stage with self portrayed -video animals, fishes , humans, personifications of Nature in the authors face, whose categorical boundaries are yet to be defined. Modern terminology would categorize the video filmed portrait performances objects as belonging to a new collection of an imaginary and supposed theatrical research and history, theatrical reliquaries , natural history , geology, anthropology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics or even works of art (including imitation of cabinet painting portrait- manipulated digitally author s face).

• published: 03 Jul 2014
• views: 27