VANGELIS ANDREOPOULOS
VANGELIS
ANDREOPOULOS
I genuinely believe in a balanced, solid and pure art, absolved of eccentric expression and sophisticated form. We do not have to agonize over fashion or struggle to impress, but rather pursue what is genuinely different, the emotion and the truth, the only genuine mother of the revelation and the new. The line, the color, the form, the shape, the space, even the coincidental need to delicately balance on a tight rope in order to be able to express the eternal mystery of life and death. Technique and rules, precious tools in the genesis of works of art however, they are transformed into a two-edged knife when they serve only themselves. On the contrary, through intellect and feeling, they allow the creator to arrange and synthesize chaos, thus transforming the finite dimension of the visible world and life into spiritual and transcendental. It is this transformation that, for thousands of years, has been weaving the face of the eternal and the sacred, whether this is expressed through a painting in Lascaux caves, an ancient column, an African mask, a Byzantine icon, the Mona Lisa, Rembrandt portraits, Van Gogh sunflowers, or La Guernica.
ABOUT
Vangelis Andreopoulos lives and works in Moscow as an artist and art tutor at Universal University (Moscow Film School, British Higher School of Art & Design and Uteens). He is the Programme Leader of the Foundation in Animation, Film and Games at Moscow Film School. In addition to his academic role, he teaches Colour, Drawing, Composition, Photography, Photo Editing, Adobe Photoshop, History of Art Contextualization and Project Research & Analysis.
From 2019 to 2021, he conducted a series of lectures on Artistic Photography at MOMMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art), while in 2020, he worked as a lecturer on Artistic Photography at «OCTAVA» Cultural Cluster in the city of Tula, Russia. Since 2018, he has also held a series of lectures on Artistic Photography, History of Art and Colour in various cultural venues in Moscow such as MANEGE, «L'Appartement 83», «Oldich Art & Sculpture Studio» and «Frenchie Club.»
During the period 2000 to 2017, he worked as an instructor of Colour, Drawing, Composition, Illustration, and Photography in the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Graphic Design programme at AKTO Art & Design College (Partner of Middlesex University of London) in Athens, Greece. From 2013 to 2017, he taught Photography (theory and practice) and Photo Editing using Adobe Photoshop & Adobe Lightroom at the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation (Adult Education Programs) in Athens, Greece.
From 1998 to 2011, he worked as the principal illustrator at the Greek Newspaper "Elefterotypia" for the weekly literary supplement "Vivliothiki," the sociopolitical supplement "Fakellos" and the cultural supplement "Epta." In 2013, he collaborated with the Greek Advertising Company "A&B" as a Graphic Designer. Since 1996, he has participated in various group and solo art exhibitions, and his artworks are in private collections in Russia, Greece, Belgium, Luxembourg and Canada.
From 1990 to 1996, he studied Painting and Etching at the School of Fine Arts of Athens, Greece, where he was awarded a Degree and Integrated Master in Painting. In addition, from 1991 to 1994, he studied the History of Art, Philosophy & Aesthetics, Architectural Design, Pedagogy & Psychology of Education & Graphic Design. In 1995, he studied Painting and Etching under I.K.Y (State Scholarships Foundation) at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the Hague, Netherlands.