Armakolas Dimitris
(Athens 1939-2009) He studied at the School of Fine Arts in the period 1956-1960 near Michalis Tombros. With a scholarship from the University of Athens, he continued his studies in Paris, at the School of Fine Arts, near Rene Kollamarini and Osip Zantkin, while completing his education with visits to museums and galleries. His exhibitions include solo exhibitions and numerous participations in group events in Greece and abroad, among which the exhibition “Greek Art Painters and Sculptors in Paris” (Peintres et Sculpteurs Grecs de Paris) at the Museum of Modern Art (Paris, 1962), 2nd Greek Exhibition of young artists (1962), where he won the First Prize for Sculpture, Panhellenic, the Sao Paulo Biennale (1969) and Barcelona (1975) and the Budapest Biennial Sculpture Biennial (1971). He has taken part in contests for statues and monuments, winning several distinctions, while in 1974 he was awarded the First Sculpture Award by the Ministry of the Presidency and by the Municipality of Thessaloniki. Working with wood, marble, plaster, aluminum clay, concrete, iron, brass, polyester resins, Armacola creates compositions with a central theme of the human body and especially the female, which, with great precision, sometimes combined with geometric and abstract themes, unambiguously shapes or fabrics and sometimes it is fragmented, torn by rough, rough surfaces that give the impression of non finito. His works, embossed or embossed, are characterized by the strong contradictions and the poetic-dream atmosphere they create.