Sarantis Gagas

Installation, Mixed Media, Painting
Greece
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...the logos becomes image. Nevertheless, none of the images is innocent while every image presupposes its own price. Painting emerged as the first form of writing; when opposite to the natural world, one of its details was enacted as a simulacrum or as a symbol (the aristotelian theory of mimesis and the ‘simulacre’ of Baudrillard).

Manos Stefanidis, art historian

He took part in many art projects and land art installations, in more than 100 group shows all over the world, and he has had 12 solo exhibitions.
Among others at 2010 he took part in the 25th Alexandria Biennale, at 2011 in 15th Lulea - Sweden Biennale and in the 1st Sofia Paper Biennale.
In 2013 the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki presents a solo exhibition of him with title logos-chronos.
He lives at Thessaloniki.

Most important awards/ symposiums

2008 1st International bookart workshop, El Nafeza foundation, Cairo, Egypt

2008 Recycling Art, Delft, Holland

2008 Colors for the planet, Unesco, planetaterra, Andorra

2007/08 1st International Convention of Modern Arts, Stuttgart, Germany

2007 Pink Ribbon (against cancer), Delft, Holland

2005 RECONSTRUCTION OF THE NEW, Delft, Holland