Stratakis Anastasis Biography
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Born in Thessaloniki in 1985
EDUCATION
| 2008-now | School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Thessaloniki |
| 2003-2007 | Graphic Design at a private school | Thessaloniki |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2009 | Verge Art Fair Miami '09, TSATSIS PROJECTS / ARTFORUM | Miami |
| 2009 | Why cinema now?, 50th Thessaloniki Film Festival / Cultural Foundation of the National Bank | Thessaloniki |
| 2009 | 1st Unit, TSATSIS PROJECTS / ARTFORUM | Thessaloniki |
| 2009 | Peristera Cultural Center of the University of Ioannina | Ioannina |
AWARDS
| 2009 | Peristera Cultural Center of the University of Ioannina |
In 2008, he was commissioned (along with two more collegues) by the Thessaloniki Museum of Cinema, to make a painting - installation which is permanently exhibited in the museum.
The work focuses on the relationship between looking, remembering and understanding and dessociates them, proposing a looking without remembering and a remembering without understanding, searching for the losses of this procedure.
It explores the friction of modern man with the triptych, past - history - tradition, emphasizing the weight these concepts have acquired but also considering the attempt to withdraw from them, as alienation.
This issue, often treated with a sense of humor, is surrounded with a mythological element which recurs in incongruous times, reminding us of its timelessness.
