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;

"Lydia Venieri erects entire mythologies and symbolic systems from the already phantasmagoric world of news media. Her stories are played out using dolls and childlike imagery to counter media dementia, in painting, drawing, photography, video and the internet. Theogony explicates Venieri's universe surveying two decades of work; work of one of the most celebrated and visionary Greek artists of our time." Tarot of Love, 2017 The Dolphin Conspiracy, 2011 TOMORROW ~ PHOSPHOR STARS IN WHITE NIGHTS, 2009 See No Evil, 2008 WarGames, 2006 For Ever After, 2004 Hibernation - Sleeping Beauty Conscience, 2002

iPhone art Moonlight, 2009

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

Books Moonlight, Lydia Venieri, 2006 Beyond Being, Lydia Venieri, 2000 60 Drawings for Healthy Perversions by Tzimy Panousi, 1995

Internet art Fin Her Story Apology Temple Tarot 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 Four meter tower built from iron for the Athens Olympics. here shown at Parthenis Darsilion, Athens, 2004 Medal for Sculpture, Académie française de Paris, 2004 Tower of Symbols, Open Air Sculpture, Central Athens, 2004 Wall of Symbols, Sculpture, Atelier Mallet Stevens, Paris Lydia 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, Athenes Commande d'une serie de sculptures pour l'Incitation à la Creation, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles Carte Blanche, a l'occation de l'anniversaire de 10 ans du Centre Georges Pompidou, Galeries Contemporaines, Paris Commande en plein air d'une serie de Eros et Psyche, Fondation Alexandre Iolas, Athenes Commande d'une serie de sculptures pour l'Incitation à la Creation, Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles Carte Blanche, a l'occation de l'anniversaire de 10 ans du Centre Georges Pompidou, Galeries Contemporaines, Paris