Bridge-Stefanou Nikos

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Bridge-Stefanou Nikos

Collectible silkscreen, signed and numbered by Nikos Stefanou.

“Bridge” – Nikos Stefanou Comes with a certificate of authenticity.

• Dimensions: 30 x 27 cm.

Nikos Stefanou is a Greek set designer, painter and ceramist. He was born in Piraeus in 1933.

At the age of 17 he started working professionally as a set designer. In 1960, with a scholarship from the French government, he completed his free theater studies in Paris. At the same time, he enrolled in the Ecole des BeauxArts (1960-1962), where he attended lithography classes.

He has worked as a stage painter in the studios of well-known theaters in the French capital, Vienna and Munich. He designed the sets and costumes for performances at the Oxford Play House and Round House in London. He has collaborated with all state stages and many free theater troupes.

His scenographic creations are distinguished for the austerity of the means of expression and the limited construction requirements. With cheap materials (paper, wood) he creates a painting in three dimensions, where realistic, abstract and constructive elements are combined with imagination. He does not try to convince about the realism of the space he regenerates. Instead, he is interested in presenting a different world, where the viewer can experience the dream and the myth. From a very early age, in addition to his work in the theater, he was also involved in painting. The factories, with their chimneys and their smoke, are memories and emotions of his childhood, from his visits to Gazi, his father’s workplace. They dominated his first works, but even today they appear in his creations as a stand-alone package or, transformed, incorporated as fragments in other compositions. The landscapes that dominate his compositions are revealed to the viewer behind an open window. In this way, but also as they are a fantastic composition of industrial, urban and coastal spaces, they give the feeling of a dreamy atmosphere with metaphysical, often, dimensions.

His painting is representative, without being dictated by the need for a faithful recording of reality. The descriptiveness of the color is often limited and its use is arbitrary. The forms are rendered with schematic simplification or with abstract elements. The sense of depth does not strictly obey the rules of perspective. Miscellaneous elements coexist in the same composition with a surreal mood. The main guide of his thematic and morphological choices is the combination of reality and dream, the poetic transformation of spaces and situations familiar. At his instigation, an artistic nucleus was created in the early 60’s, by him and A. Fassianos and V. Sperantzas. The three artists worked for about a decade in the famous, joint studio in Kallithea, where until then only the painter A. worked. Kepetzis. This common workplace and meeting place significantly influenced not only the work of the three artists, but also their other colleagues during the period ’60-70.
His works are in the PD. Rhodes, in the Averoff Gallery etc.

• Screen printing is the exact reproduction of limited copies of an original work.
• For reproduction, a silk grid is used stretched on a crate, hence the term Silkscreen, and as many crates as the colors of the work are used.
• The papers used for reproduction are cotton handmade 280-300gr type Fabriano.
• After the reproduction, the crates are destroyed by the painter to ensure the collectibility of the work.
• The Silkscreens are signed and numbered in pencil by the painter (numbering on the left and signature on the right) and are accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

At Peritexnis we offer you an exquisite variety of collectible silkscreens of great Greek painters, such as Alekos Fasianos, Dimitris Mytaras, Sofia Kalogeropoulou, Vassilis Sperantzas, Angelos Panagiotou and others.

All our silkscreens are in excellent condition and we accompany them with a certificate of authenticity. We can also frame them from a frame of your choice, as in our store we have more than 1500 frame codes.

Do not hesitate to contact us for any further information at ca@peritexnis.gr or at 210 5777954 and we will be happy to serve you.

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