{"id":4826,"date":"2021-06-17T10:43:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T10:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurits.qodeinteractive.com\/?page_id=4826"},"modified":"2023-02-14T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T16:07:42","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mariakarathanou.com\/?page_id=4826","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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She is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts [Degree Excellent], specializing in multimedia and stage design, in the laboratories of H. Botsoglou, M. Santorinaios and G. Ziaka, respectively.<\/h5>
She has been a postgraduate student in the Postgraduate Program: Digital Forms of Fine Arts.\u00a0 As well as a\u00a0 student at BSE Of Fine Arts and Modern Technology – Technical University of Crete, in the field of Sculpture. In the period 200-2008 he was a fellow of IKY in sculpture with a supervising professor, Mr. G. Chouliaras at the School of Fine Arts.<\/h5>
She also has attended courses, seminars and workshops with: Allan Caprow, Giannis Kounellis, Joseph Zvoboda, Milomir Romanovic, George Ziakas, Manthos Santorinios, Isabell Swaitzer, Thanassis Moutsopoulos, Konstantinos Vassiliou and others.<\/h5>
Characteristic of her work are large-scale visual art installations and scenic applications in public and theatrical venues. Since 2002 she implements applications that mainly concern the public space as an individual artist or in multi-collection artistic groups and projects.<\/h5>
She has participated in international art exhibitions and festivals with the most important being, the Beijing Cultural Olympiad in 2008, the Athens Cultural Olympiad in 2004 as well as the Europe and Mediterranean Biennale in 2003 in Athens and 2005 in Naples.<\/h5>
She has participated in group exhibitions in Greece and abroad and has collaborated with institutions, museums, organizations with the most important ones: National Museum of Contemporary Art \/ Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art \/ Skiriron Museum of Polychronopoulos \/ University of Fine Arts \/ Belgrade \/ Belgrade EKTHEX \/ Comics Babel Festival \/ Athens Video Art Festival \/ Cheap Art etc.<\/h5>
She has worked as a stage designer \/ costume designer and art director in more than 80 productions in cinema and theater, collaborated with: Athens & Epidaurus Festivals, National Theater – Experimental Stage, Athens Concert Hall, Charles Koun Art Theater, South \/ Amore Theater, Chora Theater, Piraeus Municipal Theater, Art Theater etc.
Her art works are hosted in private and public collections in Greece and abroad. Her texts have appeared in print and electronic media as well as catalogs of exhibitions and festivals.<\/h5>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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– Stage design award “Giannis Tsarouchis” for the play Father.\u00a0 Athens. Greece.<\/h5>
– 1st Prize in Set and Costume Design for Maniera Greca’s short film in A.I.D.F.F.<\/h5>
– Best art director award for Maniera Greca’s short film – 5th International movie festival, Brasil.<\/h5>
– Featured: Best art director award for Maniera Greca’s short film at the Eindhoven Film Festival.<\/h5>
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Biography She is a graduate of the School of Fine Arts [Degree Excellent], specializing in multimedia and stage design, in the laboratories of H. Botsoglou, M. Santorinaios and G. Ziaka, respectively. She has been a postgraduate student in the Postgraduate Program: Digital Forms of Fine Arts.  As well as a  student at BSE Of Fine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4826","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariakarathanou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariakarathanou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariakarathanou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariakarathanou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mariakarathanou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4826"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/mariakarathanou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13235,"href":"https:\/\/mariakarathanou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4826\/revisions\/13235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mariakarathanou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}