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Her art is a symbolic language of experiences and emotions that are being transformed onto the canvas. A need for communication that is being actualized through image, so it can express thoughts, wishes, dreams and moods. Her paintings are a free expression of ideas inspired by the human nature.
Fotiadou employs a style that conjures up whimsical worlds teeming with color and life. Her realm so effortlessly conjures throughout her paintings serves to both enthrall the viewer while also gently wrapping you within a comfortable moment in time in which the world melts away, leaving nothing but elegance, color, and sensuality behind.
Sofia’s Fotiadou CV
Sofia Fotiadou was born in Volos, Greece. She graduated from the Economic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the School of Early Childhood Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Member of the Visual Artists Association of Central Greece
Selection of Solo Exhibitions
2019
2018
2015
2010
2009
Selection of Group Exhibitions and Art Fairs
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2011
Permanent Collections and Museums:
Artworks by Sofia Fotiadou are acquired by the following Institutions and Museums:
Vorres Museum, Greece. The American College of Greece. Society for Macedonian Studies of Thessaloniki, Greece. Municipal Art Gallery of Thessaloniki, Greece. Municipal Art Gallery of Volos, Greece. Hatzigiannis Foundation of Larisa, Greece. Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece
Private Collections:
Condoleezza Rice, John Bailly, Christine Conception, Carolos Papoulias, Alexandros Marathianakis, Kaite Kiriakopoulou
Critics for Sofia’s Art work
Jennifer Crumpler
“Greek artist Sofia Fotiadou unveiled the largest showing yet of her unique and characteristic style of work at the grand opening of her exhibition during Art Basel Miami. At the fresh new gallery headed by design art concepts, Fotiadou’s exhibition can easily take up an entire afternoon as one examines her paintings and soaks in the meticulous attention to detail she applies to her art — each bird’s feather, the veins in each dragonfly’s wings, the soft and subtle gradient of her mystical color palette. Fotiadou employs a style that conjures up whimsical worlds teeming with colour and life while appearing tantalizingly hyper-realistic all at once. She consistently weaves the regality of femininity and the architecture of high fashion into all her works. The otherworldly realm Fotiadou so effortlessly conjures throughout her paintings serves to both enthrall the viewer while also gently wrapping you within a comfortable moment in time in which the world melts away, leaving nothing but elegance, color, and sensuality behind.”
Simeon Kyriakopoulos
“On a certain level we could look upon these heavenly beings as different personalities. At the same time, they give feelings of regeneration and reincarnation. The “One Soul” with the many appearances. What it was, what it is, and what it will be, the feminine rule, the ambassador of love, extends the boundaries of the three-dimensional space, it transcends time and becomes celestial, that is, eternal. In its eternity, the feminine rule is clear, powerful and creative. This way Mrs Fotiadou transfers it to us through Heavenly Creatures, as modern Madonnas, Holy Mothers and Daughters who were born and gave birth to the fundamental principle, love.
Heaven is the heavenly world, both the spiritual and the imaginary, that of the imagination. And this work suggests that perhaps in order to approach spirituality and the Divine, we must have access to the ability of the human mind to imagine, envision. Perhaps imagination is the bridge to reach the Supreme and the Eternal. And as far as we know, without imagination man remains enslaved. That’s how Mrs Fotiadou liberates us. She strengthens our heart, she opens the door for our minds to pass from logic to imagination and from there to connect with heavenly entities. Or maybe what some call “higher self”. But if the human soul has a higher self then does it also have a lower one? The words can confuse us at this point and give a delusion of superiority and inferiority. As if a part of us has more value than another. But it is to Art and Heavenly Creatures to fix this delusion. It would be unfair to the human soul to not benefit from its entirety. And while the gurus of the self-help industry speak of a higher self, Mrs Fotiadou’s work liberates us from their immoral megalomania and reveals the spherical dimension of the soul and its entirety, which is bottomless, revitalizing and strengthening the human. Anything ignorance and greed breaks-wounds, Art merges-heals. For this work of hers, Mrs Fotiadou vibrates twice by its inner truth and intuitive revelation.”
