Description
Costas Evangelatos studied painting and aesthetic theory of modern art in Manhattan N.Y (University. The New School). From 1986 until 1993 he was the artistic director of the DADA Gallery in Athens, and in 1990 founded the art group ART STUDIO “EST”.
Along with painting, has worked internationally in the fields of Performance, Body Art, Happening and Mail art. He has presented sections of his works in solo exhibitions in Athens, Rochester, New York City, Thessaloniki, Arezzo, Avignon, Chantilly, Paris, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Nicosia, etc.
He has participated in many group exhibitions and international artistic meetings in Paris, Barcelona, Warsaw, Gothenburg, Amiens, Rome, Moscow, Santiago, New York, Los Angeles, Seatle, Berlin, Nicosia etc. They have been published also books of him with aesthetic essays, poems, drawings and lithographic works: ink bodygraphics (Dada Art Gallery, Athens, BOA Editions N.Y., ), art editions and calendars.
He has lectured on art issues in Greece and abroad. He is a member of scientific and artistic organizations and a senior member of the Greece’s Chamber of Fine Arts.
His works are in collections of art, as in the Art Institute of the Central Bank of Greece, the “Museum of the City of Athens”, the Art Gallery of the Philosophy School in the National University of Athens, the “ART” – Macedonian Fine Art Union, the Gallery of the Macedonian Studies Society, the Municipal Gallery of Athens, the American College of Greece (ACG ART COLLECTION, the headquarters of the Greek Army Navy, the Art Foundation of Archbishop Makarios in Nicosia, the collection of Patriarchate of Alexandria, the Corfu Reading Society, the Ionian University at Corfu and Argostoli, the Municipal Gallery of Corfu, the Greek Embassy in Paris-France, the Greek and Cypriot Consulate in Paris, the University FORDHAM at Lincoln Center, New York , at the collection of Leeds University-School of Physics and Astronomy, U.K. as well as in many private collections in Greece, France and U.S.A.