Dimitris Ameladiotis
Saturday 23rd of November 2024, Papazogleios Weaving School
The Inadequacy of the Senses: An important motivation for inexhaustible artistic creation and experience
Visual artist Dimitris Ameladiotis will speak about the contribution of all sensory functions in the process of shaping a visual artwork, regardless of their physical state. More specifically, he will point out how the deficiency of a sensory function, e.g. partial or total vision loss, contributes significantly and worthily to the creation of a visual artwork, while enhancing the development of another sense,, e.g. touch.
The multi-sensory nature of the artwork brings intuition and empathy as poles of starting and fulfilling the visual process through improvised gestures and endless conceptual associations of thought.
Bio
Dimitris Ameladiotis (1979) studied at the School of Fine Arts in Thessaloniki, the Koninkijke Akademie in Gent and the Chelsea College of Art in London. He has taken part in events held by Thessaloniki Biennalle of Contemporary Art, MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art, MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in Athens, MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts in Thessaloniki, the Benaki Museum, the Onassis Foundation, the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art in co-operation with the New Museum of New York, the Tellogleion Foundation for Arts, the Goethe Institute and others.
He has presented solo shows and performances in project spaces as well as in galleries. Also, he held lectures and workshops at the Department of Visual & Applied Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Department of Visual & Applied Arts of the University of Western Macedonia, the Benaki Museum, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art in co-operation with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. His works belong to the collections of the MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.
Photo credits: Eftichia Paltsidou
