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Vangelis Rinas
Vangelis rinas atermon plefsis at the national art museum of china in beijing
Vangelis Rinas is a Greek painter and sculptor having his roots in the Northeastern Aegean Sea. He was born on Samos island, but grew up in Ikaria island in 1966. He holds an MFA from the Athens School of Fine Arts and lives and works in Athens and New York. He express himself through various materials. He has created paintings sculptures, prints and installations. Since 1992 he enjoys shows in Greece and abroad (solo, group exhibitions) and participates in international biennials. Among them, his solo exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing and his latest solo show at Tenri Cultural Institute in New York. Since 2000 he has presented three solo exhibitions entitled "Endless Sailing" All three included paintings and sculpture. His sculpture has been installed in the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing with Chinese ideograms and Braille writing.
2002 Endless Sailing II, Athinais Gallery, Athens, Greece
2002 Communication between Painting and Photography, Adam Gallery Athens, Greece
2001 Water and Wind II, Adam Gallery, Athens, Greece
1998 Water and Wind I, Prisma Gallery, Livadia,Viotia, Greece
1993 First Reading, Maria Papadopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
1992 Engraving, Miranda Gallery, Hyrda Island, Greece
Selected group exhibitions
2010 Environment Concern and Human Existence, Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale, China 2010, Beijing, China
2010 Taste of Brackishness II, Poseidonion Grand Hotel, Spetses island, Greece
2010 With the Generation of 30s as a Springboard ,the Great Art Studios and the descendαnts'’, Glikas Gallery, Athens, Greece
2009 Ambassadors of Contemporary Greek Art-Three Generations of Painters, Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Water Colouring the Landscape,curated by Iris Kritikou, Contemporary Balkan Art Gallery, Limnos Island, Greece
2009 Greek Visual Artists,Viannos Gallery, Basilica of Saint Mark, Heraklion, Creta Island,Greece
2009 Four Seasons, Hellenic War Museum, Athens, Greece
2009 Modern Greek Landscape Painting from the 18th to the 21st Century-vision, experience and space regenerating, curated by Haris Kambouridis,B. and M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, Athens, Greece
2008 Greek Artists for the Human Rights, curated by the Human Rights Defense Center
2007 Visual Arts in Greece2007-Artistic Innovation: Semiotics of its Terms in the New Age, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece
2007 Dialogues 2007, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece
2007 'Greek Artists for the Human Rights, curated by the Human Rights Defense Center, The City of Athens Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
2006 90 Greek Artists for the Human Rights, curated by the Human Rights Defense Center, The City of Athens Cultural Organization, Eleftherias Park Arts Centre, Athens, Greece
2005 Shall we play?, Adam Gallery, Athens, Greece
2005 Art Works Exhibition, curated by the Human Rights Defense Center, The City of Athens Cultural Organization, Eleftherias Park Arts Centre Athens, Greece
2005 Agathi Gallery, Athens, Greece,
2005 Vision and Touch, Atrion Gallery, Salonika, Greece
2005 Sacred and Profane, aspects of the female in modern Greek painting 1930–2005’’, curated by Haris Kambouridis, Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, Creta Island, Greece
2003 Christmas with Greek and Russian Contemporary Art’’, K Gallery, London, Great Britain
2003 New Iconolatry, curated by Haris Kambouridis, Fine Arts Kapopoulos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2001 Visions and Bonds, The City of Athens Cultural Organization, Eleftherias Park Arts Centre, Athens, Greece
2001 Apollon Gallery, Rafina, Attica,Greece
1999 Anny Balta Gallery, Thessaloniki
1998 Municipality of Corfu Gallery, Corfu Island, Greece
1998 Trigono Gallery, Kifissia, Attica, Greece
1997 Selini Gallery, Kifissia, Attica, Greece
1994 Kostis Palamas Building, Athens, Greece
1994 A.Tassos Fine Arts Society, Athens, Greece
1992 Polyedro Gallery, Patra, Greece
1992 Maria Papadopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece
1992 Municipality of Vyronas Cultural Centre (Isidora Duncan) , Vyronas, Athens
1991 Athens School of Fine Arts Graduates Exhibition, National Art Gallery and Alexander Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece
Reviews
Jonathan Goodman, “Vangelis Rinas: The Art of Hybridity” ‘’Vangelis Rinas: Deterioration and Renewal”, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, N.Y,USA,2012’’
Dr.Thalia Vrachopoulos, “Vangelis Rinas :Palimpsests of Time” ‘’Vangelis Rinas: Deterioration and Renewal”, Tenri Cultural Institute, New York, N.Y,USA,2012’’
Mary Hrbacek, “Painting in the Present Past”, NY Arts, 23 June 2012
Dr.Thalia Vrachopoulos, “Vangelis Rinas’ Passages: Loss, Search and Ascent”Vangelis Rinas Passages, May 2012
Liu Dawei, “He is sailing from the Aegean, First Personal Exhibition of the Greek Artist Vangelis Rinas in China”, Endless Sailing III National Art Museum of China, March 2010
Harris Kambouridis,” In the Harmonious Sway of Myth,” Endless Sailing III National Art Museum of China, March 2010
Annita Patsouraki, “Infinitive Voyage”,Prayer for those who sail well in the seas,” Vangelis Rinas; Endless Sailing II,2007
Haris Kambouridis, '’With Art as a Valuable Cargo,”Vangelis Rinas; Endless Sailing II,2007
Haris Kambouridis, “Molding the Clay with Color”, Ta Nea, 28 December 2005
Dora Iliopoulou-Rogan, “Endless sailing,” Vangelis Rinas:Endless Sailing, 2002
Nasa Patapiou, “I have ventured upon a great sea..” Vangelis Rinas:Endless Sailing, 2002
Haris Kambouridis, “Shipbuilding for the voyage of art,”Vangelis Rinas:Endless Sailing, 2002
Dora Iliopoulou-Rogan, “Into the Inner Recesses” Vangelis Rinas,March 2001
Haris Kambouridis, “Spark of Resurrection”, Ta Nea, 18 April 2001
Lena Pappa, “In a closed Room,” Vangelis Rinas, March 1993
Selected public collections
National Center for the Performing Arts (The Opera of Beijing), Beijing, China
Beijing International Art Biennale Collection, Beijing, China
Hellenic Parliament, Athens, Greece
National Bank of Greece, London
Commercial Bank of Greece, Athens, Greece
Municipal Gallery of Corfu Island, Greece
Municipal Gallery of Viannos, Crete Island, Greece
