Lydia Venieri
{{Short description|Greek artist (born 1964)}}
{{COI|date=December 2022}}
{{Infobox artist
| name = Lydia Venieri
| caption =
| birth_date = January 27th
| birth_place = Athens, Greece
| field = Sculpture, Painting, Photography
| training = 1984 École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts
| works = Byron Codex, Byronic Heroes, Dolphin Conspiracy, Tomorrow, See No Evil, War Games, Forever After, Hibernation, Planetic Exodus, Telluric Manifesto, Platonic Big Bang
| website = {{URL|https://www.venieri.com/}}
}}
Lydia Venieri is a Greek artist.{{cite web|url=http://artonair.org/show/lydia-venieri-anastasia-aukeman-michael-skafidas-theogony|title=Lydia Venieri, Anastasia Aukeman & Michael Skafidas: Theogony|publisher=Art On Air.Org|date=2011-07-18|accessdate=2012-11-26}}
Bibliographie D'histoire de L'art
By Institut de l'information scientifique et technique (France), Getty Art History Information Program, Comité français d'histoire de l'art, College Art Association of America, Art Libraries Society of North America
Published by Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Institut de l'information scientifique et technique, 1995
Item notes: vol.5 no.4 1995
Personal life
=Background=
Venieri was born in Athens, Greece. She studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-ArtsÉcole des Beaux-Arts{{Circular reference|date=November 2019}}. 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.iasfbo.inaf.it/extras/Services/Local/WhatsNew/95/whats-new-9503.html|title=What's New: March 1995|publisher=IASFBO.Inaf.it|date=1995-03-01|accessdate=2012-08-01}}By Aimé Césaire, Annick Thébia-Melsan, Gérard Lamoureux, Martinique Conseil régional, International Fund for the Promotion of Culture (Organization), Unesco
Published by Maisonneuve & Larose, 2000 {{ISBN|2-7068-1423-3}}, {{ISBN|978-2-7068-1423-5}}
Career
=As artist=
Venieri is well known{{cite web |url=https://www.idconceptstores.com/Designer/lydia-venieri/|title=i-D Concept Stores|accessdate=2012-08-01 }}
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.{{cite web|url=http://www.stuxgallery.com/site/www/artist_gallery/27|title=The Last Conflict, Stux Gallery, New York|publisher=Stux Gallery.com|accessdate=2012-08-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306213458/http://www.stuxgallery.com/site/www/artist_gallery/27|archivedate=2012-03-06}}{{cite web|url=http://www.melt.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=2&lang=en|title=The Bathhouse of the Winds, Athens|publisher=Melt.gr|date=2011-02-27|accessdate=2012-08-01|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321111959/http://www.melt.gr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=134&Itemid=2&lang=en|archivedate=2012-03-21}}
She has been noted as;
{{blockquote|"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."}}
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, 2017{{cite web
| url = http://www.johnmolloygallery.com/lydia_venieri.html
| title = John Molloy Gallery
| last = John
| first = Molloy
| date =
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| access-date = 30 November 2017
}}
- Tarot of Love, 2017{{cite web
| url = https://www.idconceptstores.com/d-projectart-launch-lydia-venieris-exhibition/
| title = i-D ProjectArt Launch with Lydia Venieri's Exhibition
| last = Stefan
| first = Stux
| date =
| website =
| publisher =
| access-date = 22 May 2017
}}
- The Dolphin Conspiracy, 2011{{cite web
| url = https://www.venieri.com/event/the-dolphin-conspiracy-at-the-bathhouse-of-the-win/
| title = 'The Dolphin Conspiracy at the historic Bathhouse of the Winds
| access-date = 11 January 2011
}}
- TOMORROW ~ PHOSPHOR STARS IN WHITE NIGHTS, 2009{{cite web
| url = http://www.venetiakapernekas.com/htdocs/lvenieri.php
| title = Venetia Kapernekas Gallery
| last = Venetia
| first = Kapernekas
| access-date = 16 December 2009
}}
- See No Evil, 2008{{cite web
| url = https://www.nypl.org/events/exhibition/2009/06/10/see-no-evil-lydia-venieri
| title = The New York Public Library
| access-date = 1 May 2009
| url = http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/event/2008/D040.en
| title = Gallery Terra Tokyo
| access-date = 1 May 2008
}}
- WarGames, 2006{{cite web
| url = https://www.artsy.net/article/editorial-photographic-storytelling-at-vanessa-quang-gallery
| title = Photographic Storytelling at Vanessa Quang Gallery
| last = Vanessa
| first = Quang
| date =10 February 2014
| website =
| publisher =
| access-date = 14 February 2014
}}
- For Ever After, 2004{{cite web
| url = https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2011/05/25/art-book-theogony
| title = Princeton University catalog
| access-date = 25 May 2011
| url = http://www.meislinprojects.com/archive/oh-you-beautiful-doll/selected-works?view=slider#9
| title = OH, YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL Curated By Douglas F. Maxwell
| access-date = 26 January 2006
}}
- Hibernation - Sleeping Beauty Conscience, 2002{{cite web
| url = https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/SCSB-7910822
| title = New York Public Library - An Art Book - Theogony
| access-date = 30 November 2011
}}
=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{{cite web|url=http://www.agra.gr/|title=Agra Editions|publisher=agra.gr}}
- Beyond Being, Lydia Venieri, 2000Published by Reprotime, 2000, {{ISBN|960864643X}}
- 60 Drawings for Healthy Perversions by Tzimy Panousi, 1995
=Internet art=
- Fin{{cite web|url=http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |title=Fin |publisher=Venieri.com |accessdate=2012-08-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214034424/http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |archivedate=2012-02-14 }}
- Her Story{{cite web|url=http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |title=Her Story |publisher=Venieri.com |accessdate=2012-08-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214034424/http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |archivedate=2012-02-14 }}
- Apology{{cite web|url=http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |title=Apology |publisher=Venieri.com |accessdate=2012-08-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214034424/http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |archivedate=2012-02-14 }}
- Temple{{cite web|url=http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |title=Temple |publisher=Venieri.com |accessdate=2012-08-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214034424/http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |archivedate=2012-02-14 }}
- Tarot{{cite web|url=http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |title=Tarot |publisher=Venieri.com |accessdate=2012-08-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214034424/http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |archivedate=2012-02-14 }}
- Isis{{cite web|url=http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |title=Isis |publisher=Venieri.com |accessdate=2012-08-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214034424/http://www.venieri.com/fin/ |archivedate=2012-02-14 }}
=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
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- 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 {{Not a typo|sculputre}} 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
References
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=Further reading=
- Nadja Argyropoulou (Author), Anastasia Aukeman (Author): 'Lydia Venieri: Theogony''. Charta 2011. {{ISBN|978-8-88158-792-6}}
External links
- {{Official website|http://www.venieri.com/ }}
- [http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2011/05/25/art-book-theogony An Art Book - Theogony]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120306213458/http://www.stuxgallery.com/site/www/artist_gallery/27 Stux Gallery - Lydia Venieri]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110711063459/http://www.galerie-quang.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68&Itemid=68&lang=en Gallery Quang]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724175515/http://www.galleri-se.no/artist/lydiavenieri/ Galleri S.E, Norway]
- [http://www.vimeo.com/venieri/ lydia venieri on Vimeo]
- [http://www.location1.org/residency/overview/ International]
- [http://www.nyphotoreview.com/NYPR_REVS/NYPR_REV1544.html Lydia Venieri The Last Conflict]
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