Artist’s CV
The Painter, Engraver Valias Semertzidis was born in 1911 in Krasnodar, Caucasus, to a Greek father and a Russian mother. In 1923 he came with his parents to Athens. In 1928 he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts, where in 1932, 1935-1936 he had K. Parthenis as his teacher. After his first participation in the TIF in 1935, he began to systematically exhibit his work as a member of the “Free Artists” group from 1937. The 1940 war and his active participation in the Resistance were decisive events for the development of his painting. through the lines of EAM, he even collected, from his stay on the mountain, valuable material, which he later used in compositions of large dimensions.
In 1946 he took part in the important exhibition of Greek art at the Royal Academy of London, while his first solo exhibition took place at “Parnassos” in 1957. This was followed by the Alexandria Biennale and the International Engraving Exhibition in Leipzig, the Hermitage and Moscow. In Russia he held 25 exhibitions in various cities. In Ferrara in 1974, in the National Gallery in 1977 and many others. Shortly after the end of the war, he also started to deal with engraving. His apprenticeship with K. Parthenis is clearly visible in the early phase of his work, especially in his landscapes. Another thematic area of the period 1936-1940, the portraits, move in a purely idealistic framework and often reveal his psychographic skill. He consistently uses oil tempera as a material – apart from minimal works in pastel – and often borrows engraving techniques to make the painted surface of his works rougher.
From 1964 until his death in February 1983 he lived in Rhodes. Here he will find all the vitality, beauty, mystery, variety and richness he needed for his work. The eastern and especially the western side of the island with its natural beauties and strong contrasts, the hinterland, the people gave Semertzidis many inspirations to create new works, to complete his older compositions, to create murals for hotels and public buildings.
In the late 60s and early 70s, a small album called RHODES was published, which included 8 engravings of his last work with a then new technique in metal and printed directly from the plates he engraved.
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