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  • A Journey to Paxos

    A Journey to Paxos

    “A
 Journey
 to
 Paxos” 
is 
a 
book
 of 
83
 watercolors 
of 
the 
island
 of
 Paxos 
in
 the
 Ionian
 sea 
by 
the
 Athenian
 artist
 Pavlos
 Habidis.
 The
 book
 was 
published
 by
 Chris
 Boïcos 
Fine
 Arts
 in 
July
 2014.


    
“A
 Journey
 to 
Paxos” 
is
 accompanied 
by
 an 
introduction 
by 
the 
mayor
 of
 Paxos 
(2002‐ 2014) 
Mr.
 Spyros 
Bogdanos
 and
 a 
text
 on
 the 
artist
 by 
Mrs
 Katerina 
Koskina,
 president
 of
 the
 State 
Museum
 of 
Contemporary
 Art. 
The
 book
 was 
designed 
by
Jean
 Le 
Moal 
in
 Paris
 and
 LTH
 Advertising 
in
 Athens.

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    Paxos 
is 
one
 of
 the 
most
 beautiful 
islands
 of 
Greece
 and
 this
 is 
the
 first 
time
 a
 book 
of
 images
 of
 Paxos
 has 
been 
published
 since 
1887
(!),
 when
 the
 Austrian 
Archduke
 Ludwig
 Salvator
 illustrated
 the 
first 
book
 on
 Paxos
 and
 Antipaxos
 with 
his 
own 
sketches.


    
The
 book
 will
 be
 presented
 for
 the 
first
 time
 in
 a 
book 
signing 
by
 Pavlos 
Habidis 
at
 the
 Paxos 
municipal 
art
 gallery
 in
 the
 old 
custom house 
of 
the
 port
 of
 Loggos
 on 

Sunday 
3
 August
 from
 8 
to 
10:30
pm.
 The
 original
 watercolors 
from
 the 
book 
will 
be
 on
 exhibition 
at 
the
 Loggos 
municipal 
art
 gallery 
from 
3
 August
 to
 7
 September 
2014.




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  • Grants & awards

    2007
    Celeste Prize 2007, Rome, Winner of the painting section. 

    Serrone: Youth Biennial, Monza, work acquisition. 

    Harlem Studio Fellowship, New York NY, USA. 


    2005
    Winner of the under 30 section, Morlotti Prize; Imbersago, Lecco, Italy.   

    
2003
    Classified II Award Morlotti; Imbersago, Lecco, Italy.   

    2002
    Charles II Award Classified Zorza. Red Bridge Gallery, Milan, Italy.  

  • Collaborations

    2007
    PH Frankenstein by Giordano Morganti. Video animation, Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy.   


    2006
    Louisbode: Kids and Revolution. Video animation for the book trailer, with Marco Mancassola (text), Marco Perroni (drawings), Sergio Bertin and James Garavelloni.

  • Art fairs

    2012
    AAF, Salamon Gallery, Milan, Italy.  

    Art Fair, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Bologna, Italy.  


    2011
    AAF, Salamon Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.
    Salon international de l’estampe, Bellinzona Gallery, Paris, France. 

    AAF, Salamon Gallery, Milan, Italy.
    Art Fair, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Bologna, Italy.  

    
2010
    MiArt, Mimmo Scognamiglio Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy.
    Scope New York, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, New York NY, USA. 

    Art Fair, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Bologna, Italy.   


    2009
    Scope Miami, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Miami FL, USA.

    Salon international de l’estampe, Bellinzona Gallery, Paris, France. 

    Scope Basel, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Basel, Switzerland. 

    Rome Contemporary Art, Gallery Salamon, Rome, Italy.   

    MiArt artecontemporanea Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan 

    Art Fair, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Bologna, Italy.  


    2008
    Artissima, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Turin, Italy.   

    Salon International de l’estampe, Bellinzona Gallery, Paris, France.

    Art Paris 2008; Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Paris, France. 
 MiArt; Artecontemporanea Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan, Italy.   

    Art Fair 2008; Montrasioarte, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Bologna, Italy.   


    2007
    Art Verona; Montrasioarte, Verona 2007 Salon des Etampes, Bellinzona Gallery, Paris, France. 

    Artefiera Montrasioarte, Bologna, Italy.   

    
2006
    Art Verona, Montrasioarte, Verona, Italy.  

  • Group exhibitions

    2016
    Estampes, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Galerie Oberkampf, Paris, France.

    2015
    Still Lifes, Landscapes & Fish, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Paxos, Greece

    2014
    ΙΧΘΕΙΣ – Creatures of the sea, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Paxos, Greece.
    Paper Zoo, curated by Oreste Bellinzona, Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy.
    Segni Moderni, curated by Ivan Pengo and Michele Tavola, Orie Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

    2013
    Nel segno della croce. Curated by Chiara Gatti, Antica chiesa di S.Barnaba in Bondo, Trento, Italy.
    Travelling Away. Curated by Chiara Gatti, Spazio Transiti, Marina di Scarlino, Grosseto, Italy.

    2012
    La vita condivisa, curated by Cecilia De Carli, Grace Mason and Laura Polo. Palazzo delle Stelline, Milan, Italy. 


    2011 La bellezza nella parola, curated by Don Umberto Bordoni, arch. Carlo Capponi, p. Andrea Dall’Asta, Msgr. Domenico Sguaitamatti, prof. Francesco Tedeschi, Don Norberto Valli. The Royal Palace and Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy. 


    Tessuto metropolitano/ Estrapolazioni, curated by Francescapaola Merega and Elena Saccardi.
    Openlab, Genova, Italy. 
    What’s, curated by Mimmo Scognamiglio, Mimmo Scognamiglio artecontemporanea, Milano
    Lecco Street View, curated by Chiara Canali. Lecco, Italy. 

    Lecco Città del ferro, curated by Michele Tavola. Torre Viscontea, Lecco.

    Nouvelle figuration italienne, curated by Michele Tavola. Galerie Beckel, Odille, Boicos, Paris, France.


    2010
    Wireless, curated by Giovanni Bonelli. BonelliLab, Canneto sull’Oglio, Italy. 


    2009
    Che occhi grandi che hai, curated by Chiara Gatti. Galleria San Fedele, Milano, Italy.
    Harlem States of Mind from Apollo to Lenox, curated by Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Raffaele Bedarida, Museo Civico Floriano Bodini, Gemonio. Varese, Montrasioarte, Milan, Italy.
    LookAtFestival: “Luci (di) corpi”, curated by Elena Marcheschi. Palazzo Ex Manifattura Tabacchi, Lucca, Italy.
    La Verità della Pittura, Dry Brush nell’Arte Contemporanea, curated by Lorenza Salamon. Galleria Salamon, Milan, Italy.
    Noir Couleur, Il nuovo paesaggio della pittura italiana, curated by Vittoria Broggini. Galleria Villa Morotti, Daverio, Varese, Italy. 

    2008
    Generazione Anni ‘70. Arte Contemporanea in Lombardia, curated by Claudio Rizzi. Spazio Guicciardini, Milan, Italy.
    Container art Genoa, Italy.
    Rassegna d’arte Premio Orzinuovi, curated by Mauro Corradini. Castello di Orzinuovii Brescia, Italy. 
    Internazionale 1908-2008. Il Nerazzurro è arte, curated by Oreste Bellinzona and Luca Melloni. Galleria Bellinzona, Milan, Italy.
    Nicola Console, Marco Giovani, Nicola Villa, curated by Mimmo Scognamiglio and Pietro Montone. Mimmo Scognamiglio arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy. 
    Di segno in segno curated by Ruggero Montrasio. Montrasioarte, Millan, Italy.
    Metafore nella figura, curated by Claudio Rizzi, Spazio Guicciardini, Milan, Italy.

    2007
    Premio Celeste, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Ivan Quaroni, Marta Casati and Maria Paola Nicita. Istituto Superiore Antincendi, Rome, Italy.
    De rerum natura; la forma organica, curated by Ruggero Montrasio. Montrasioarte, Italy.
    La soglia di un orizzonte: Nuove acquisizioni, curated by Daniele Astrologo. Abadal Museo Floriano Bodini, Gemonio, Varese, Italy. 
    Premio arti visive San Fedele:il male, curated by Andrea dall’Asta , Angela Madesani, Daniele Astrologo Abadal, Chiara Gatti, Chiara Canali, Matteo Galbiati, Angela Orsini, Stefano, Pirovano, Francesco Zanot. Galleria San Fedele, Milan, Italy. 
    The Pioneers, A group exhibition, curated by Raffaele Bedarida and Ruggero Montrasio. Harlem Studio, New York NY, USA.
    Rassegna Internazionale D’arte G.B. Salvi, curated by Mauro Corradini. Palazzo ex Pretura, Sassoferrato, Italy.
    Concorso Profilo d’arte: Finalist’s exhibition Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy.
    SerrOne : Biennale Giovani, curated by Cecilia Antolini, Matteo Galbiati, Chiara Gatti, Carlo Ghielmetti, Lorenzo Giusti. Serrone di Villa Reale, Monza, Italy.

    2005
    Premio Morlotti Imbersago, Lecco, Italy. 


    2004
    Scandaglio, Rassegna dei finalisti del Premio Morlotti, curated by Giorgio Seveso and Marina Pizziolo. Imbersago, Lecco, Italy. 


    2003
    Giovanni Testori, un ritratto, curated by Flavio Arensi. Palazzo Leone da Perego, Legnano, Italy.


    2002
    Premio Morlotti, curated by Giorgio Seveso. Imbersago, Lecco, Italy. 

    Premio Carlo dalla Zorza, Galleria Ponte Rosso, Milan, Italy. 


    2001
    Premio Morlotti, curated by Marina Pizziolo. Imbersago, Lecco, Italy. 


    2000
    Premio Morlotti, curated by Marina Pizziolo. Imbersago, Lecco, Italy. 

  • Solo exhibitions

    2016
    Opera Grafica 1996-2016, Galleria Bellinzona 2.0, Lecco, Italy.
    L’incognita dell’approdo, a cura di Luca Giannini, Spazio Lomellini 17, Genova, Italy.
    Short-life memories, curated by Michele Tavola, Nuova Galleria Morone project room, Milan, Italy.
    2015
    Crocevia: storie di volti tra mari e città, curated by Michele Tavola, Spazio aperto San Fedele, Milano, Italy.
    Controluce, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Le Huit, Paris, France.
    Controluce, curated by Lorenza Salamon, Salamon Galllery, Milano, Italy.
    Appunti e spunti, curated by Oreste Bellinzona, Galleria Bellinzona, Milano, Italy.
    Burned frames for urban papers,curated by Michele Tavola , Contact Zone contemporary art gallery, Lugano, Italy.

    2014
    Di navi,di uomini, di pesci, curated by Luca Beatrice, Tedofra Artgallery, Bologna, Italy.

    2013
    Ladro di biciclette. Curated by Oreste Bellinzona, Galleria Bellinzona, Milan, Italy.

    2012
    Urban Visions (with Michael Goro), curated by Michele Tavola, Galerie Beckel Odille Boicos, Paris, France.

    
2011
    Urbano-Mediterraneaneo, curated by Peter Ram, Cultural Association Monteggiori Arts, Monteggiori, Italy. 

    Dessins-Gravures 2011, curated by Oreste Bellinzona, Salon du livre et de l’estampe ancien, Grand Palais, Paris, France. 

    
2010
    Urbano-Mediterraneano 2010, curated by Peter Ram, contemporary art Mimmo Scognamiglio, Naples, Italy. 

    Engravings 2010, curated by Lorenza Salamon Salamon Gallery, Milan.
2009

    2009

    Entrée Reservée 2009, curated by Oreste Bellinzona, Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni , Bellagio, Italy. 

    2008
    Walking in the City, curated by Fabrizio Moretti, Roger Montrasio and Francesca Gavin, Moretti Fine Art, London, England. 


    2006
    Dallo sguardo al volto impossibile, curated by Stefano Crespi, Lodovico Meneghetti and Raffaele Bédarida; Montrasioarte / Gallery Bellinzona; Milan; Gallery Bellinzona, Lecco, Italy. 


    2003
    Prospettive, nuove proposte artistiche, curated by Michele table; Villa Sirtori, Olginate, Italy. 


    2001
    Nicola Villa, curated by Giorgio Seveso, Gallery Mosaic, Chiasso, Italy.

  • Group Exhibitions

    2015
    Fotofever 2015, « Mythes et sculptures classiques dans la photo contemporaine », Chris Boïcos Fine Arts, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France.
    93, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Le Huit, Paris, France.
    Ελιά ! , curated by Chris Boicos Fine Arts & Corfu Gallery, Paxos Municipal Gallery, Loggos, Paxos, Greece.

    2014
    ΙΧΘΕΙΣ – Creatures of the Sea, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Gaios, Paxos, Greece.
    Landscapes and Myths II, Municipal Gallery, Loggos, Paxos, Greece.
    Poseidon, Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Gaios, Paxos, Greece.
    Art Factum, Beirut, Lebanon.
    Les Artistes de la Source, Fondation Garouste, La Guéroulde, Normandy, France.

    2013
    Landscapes and Myths (Island Lives series) Chris Boïcos Fine Arts, Paxos, Greece.
    In Toto gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.

    2012
    Artifices, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Fotofever Brussels 2012, (Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris), Brussels, Belgium.
    Safari Urbain collectif Daktari, Centre Culturel, Le Bourget, France.

    2010
    Sculptures, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2009
    Baroque! Vices, fleurs et miroirs, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2008
    Urban Landscapes, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Nu au Masculin, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2006
    The Rite of Spring, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Art Chicago 2006 (Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris) Chicago IL, USA.

    2005
    Month of Photography Cape Town, South Africa.

    2004
    Art Chicago 2004 (Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris) Chicago IL, USA.
    Natures Mortes, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2003
    Luxe, Calme et Volupté, Hôtel Scribe, Paris, France.
    La Source de l’art, Fondation Garouste, La Gueroulde, Normandy, France.
    La Source de l’art, Hôtel du Département, Evreux, Normandy, France.

    2002
    Nus, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Après l’Apartheid, Maison des Arts, Grand Quevilly, Normandy, France.
    Fondation Colas, Boulogne (92), France.
    Huit artistes pour la Source, Fondation COFFIM, Paris, France.
    Mois de la Photo, Cité des Arts, Paris, France.

    2001
    Natures Mortes, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Artuel – Beyrouth 2001, Salon international d’art contemporain, Beirut, Lebanon.
    Art Paris 2001 Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2000
    Après l’apartheid, Trois photographes d’Afrique du sud,  Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France. 
    Art Paris 2000 Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France. 
    Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.

    1999
    Paysages, Galerie Beckel-Odille-Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Mois de la Photo bis, Paris, France.

    1996
    Cape Town Association of Art, Cape Town, South Africa.
    Durban Association of Art, Durban, South Africa.
    Johannesburg Association of Art, Johannesburg, South Africa.

    1995
    People’s Portraits, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

    1994
    Images using traditional and experimental processes (cyanotype, calotype, silver and etching), Clairemont Gallery, Cape Town, South
    South African Association of Arts, Cape Town, South Africa.

    1988
    National Theatre, Durban, South Africa.

  • Press

    • Journal des Arts (Paris) – Exhibition review – March 2011
    • Loyola Phoenix (Chicago) – February 2006.
    • New City Magazine (Chicago) –January 2006.
    • Elle Decoration (South Africa) – September 2005.
    • Cape Times (Cape Town) – Art Review – February 2003.
    • Regards magazine (La Courneuve, France) – Full page article – January 2003.
    • Résidences Décoration (Paris) – Exhibition review – July-August 2002.
    • Art Actuel (Paris) – Exhibition review – May 2002.
    • Connaissance des Arts (Paris) – Exhibition review – May 2002.
    • Photo magazine (Paris) – Exhibition review – April and May 2002.
    • First Class magazine (Paris) – Exhibition review – March 2002.
    • Arts Actualités magazine (Paris) – 3 page article – February 2002.
    • Art Actuel (Paris) – 3 page article – October 2001.
    • New City magazine (Chicago) – Exhibition review – July 2001.
    • Artuel (Beirut) – July 2001.
    • Time Out Paris Edition – Exhibition review (« best show in town ») – November 2000.
    • Beaux-arts Magazine (Paris) Le Tour des Galeries – November 2000.
    • Cape Times (Cape Town) Art Review – 13 May 1999.
    • Cape Times (Cape Town) Art Review – March and October 1995.
  • Public collections

    • Ministry of Education, South Africa.
    • South African National Gallery.
    • Michaelis Foundation, South Africa.
    • Fondation d’entreprise Colas, Boulogne (92), France.
    • University of Chicago, Cultural Policy Center, Chicago IL, USA.
  • Personal exhibitions

    2014
    Deep Surfaces (with Katya Traboulsi) Artspace Gallery, London, England.
    Beirut Art Fair (with Jennifer Norback Fine Arts, Chicago IL, USA) Beirut, Lebanon.

    2013
    In Metamorphosis (with Douglas Stapleton) Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago IL, USA.
    Beirut Art Fair (with Jennifer Norback Fine Arts, Chicago IL, USA) Beirut, Lebanon.

    2012
    Métamorphoses Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.

    2011
    Des héros, des hommes et des bêtes, Maison des MICI, Paris, France.
    Urbi et Orbi Galerie Huit, Arles, France.

    2010
    Heliograms: Deconstructed Gastronomy Jennifer Norback Fine Art, Chicago IL, USA.

    2009
    Vivian van Blerk – Recent Work, Michael Laconte Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.

    2008
    Seven Capital Vices, Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.
    Et In Arcadia Ego, Cheyne Walk Salon, London, England.

    2007
    Photographies de Vivian van Blerk, Lycée Gilbert Martin, Le Neubourg, France.
    Quatre saisons et d’autres mondes, Château de Trousse-Barrière, Briare, France.

    2006
    Four Seasons, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Four Seasons, Bell Studio, Chicago IL, USA.
    Vivian van Blerk, Parsons School of Design, Paris, France.
    Quatre saisons, Mois de la Photo de Paris, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France.

    2005
    From a New World, Lucca’s, Chicago IL, USA.

    2004
    From a New World, Bell Studio, Chicago IL, USA.
    Vivian van Blerk – Photographies 1994-2004, Arphil, Paris, France.

    2003
    Vivian van Blerk – Recent Photographs, Association for Visual Arts, Cape Town, South Africa.

    2002
    Attics, Cows, Hippopotami and the New World – Photographies 1994-2002, Galerie Beckel Odille Boïcos, Paris, France.
    Hippopotamus & Destiny, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

    2001
    Vivian van Blerk, Hart Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.

    1999
    Vivian van Blerk Lipschitz Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

    1998
    Vivian van Blerk, Pi Gallery, Chicago IL, USA.
    Vivian van Blerk, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.

    1995
    Vivian van Blerk, South African Association of Arts, Cape Town, South Africa.