artist- Magdalena Papanicolopoulou
Magdalena Papanikolopoulou is an artist who creates live performances, videos, installations and calligraphies.
Her works explore not only the visual but the semiological and the psychological aspects of symbolism of letters and language.
She is experimenting with the relationship between body and letter by using letters as an object. She explores movement as a dance and how text and words can create a visual poetic language.
She makes the letters in material form, to stage them as an interactive object. She combines them with her body in the public space - outside their normal context such as city signs, books and advertisements to achieve a new level of communication.
She believes that one of the most important characteristics of the symbol is that it constitutes the compositional expression of a respected science, the memory of which has faded from people’s minds though it is still evident that it exists and will continue to exist, whether in an explicit or implicit form.
Magdalena Papanikolopoulou is a full time lecturer of graphic design at the Technological Institute of Athens. She graduated from The London College of Printing and The Vakalo School of Art and Design.
She lives in Aegina island, works in Athens and studies in London city.
She graduated from Professional Doctorate programme at the UEL in 2015. Her research title is: Staging the alphabet / text, performance and the feminine.
She exhibits nationally and internationally in museums and galleries.
Magdalena Papanikolopoulou
email: [email protected]
www.magdalenapapanikolopoulou.com
Her works explore not only the visual but the semiological and the psychological aspects of symbolism of letters and language.
She is experimenting with the relationship between body and letter by using letters as an object. She explores movement as a dance and how text and words can create a visual poetic language.
She makes the letters in material form, to stage them as an interactive object. She combines them with her body in the public space - outside their normal context such as city signs, books and advertisements to achieve a new level of communication.
She believes that one of the most important characteristics of the symbol is that it constitutes the compositional expression of a respected science, the memory of which has faded from people’s minds though it is still evident that it exists and will continue to exist, whether in an explicit or implicit form.
Magdalena Papanikolopoulou is a full time lecturer of graphic design at the Technological Institute of Athens. She graduated from The London College of Printing and The Vakalo School of Art and Design.
She lives in Aegina island, works in Athens and studies in London city.
She graduated from Professional Doctorate programme at the UEL in 2015. Her research title is: Staging the alphabet / text, performance and the feminine.
She exhibits nationally and internationally in museums and galleries.
Magdalena Papanikolopoulou
email: [email protected]
www.magdalenapapanikolopoulou.com