CAN gallery, located in Kolonaki area in Athens, presents Yorgos Stamkopoulos’ solo show entitled ‘Beyond Ancient Space’ which is scheduled to run until November, 2014.

Renowned for his vibrant colors and experimental use of paint, the artist in his most recent work turns into a darker pallet and a more painterly, gestural technique which blends blind painting with a set of very fine gestural strokes of spray.

Stamkopoulos explores space and the way the human mind and body can experience it through color and depth, while he plays around with this notion of a mystic, almost psychedelic experience that takes place at the studio when the works are being created.

Influenced by the energetic gestures of abstract expressionism, comic books, music, films, as well as other artworks, Stamkopoulos’ fascination with color and process results to a liberating act of continuous experimentation and improvisation. The artist develops his own technique by employing unconventional, nontraditional materials to mask his canvases.

Bio:

Born in 1983 in Katerini, Greece, Yorgos Stamkopoulos studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts and at the Universität der Kunste in Berlin. He has been awarded a scholarship by the Onassis Foundation, Athens and the “Freedom for Emerging Artists” prize from the Museo de Calzado in Spain. His works have been displayed in various group shows nationally and internationally. In 2011 he had his first solo show in Fabio Tiboni gallery in Bologna, Italy, following with a second solo show in CAN gallery Athens in 2012 and a triple solo show at Christian Ehrentraut gallery in Berlin, Germany in 2014. He currently lives and works in Berlin.