RANIA KAPELIARI SUPERB ORIGINAL MIXED MEDIA ARTWORK “AFRICAN QUEEN”
Offered is a superb original mixed media artwork by Rania Kapeliari titled “African Queen”. Rania Kapeliari is a prominent Greek artist of contemporary art with a continuous presence in art events.
“In her works she employs the technique of collage and her images, identifiable or not, and always fragmentary, aim for the symbolic extension of the visual space. She is inspired by often uses elements of different cultures, while a key element of the works is the human form, echoed unchanged with the use of photography or presented through an allusive abstract writing.”
(Source: Melissa 1998, Vol. 2, pg.124. Directory of Greek Artists 16th-20th century”, Melissa editions,1998, volume 2, pg.124)
The artwork comes with the pictured custom frame, ready to hang. It comes without glass.
A great investment and a prized and superior piece of art for the discerning collector!
Guaranteed 100% original.
Title: “Reine d’Afrique” (African Queen).
Medium: Top part is lithography painted over with black, pink, gold and green colors. Lower half is a hand painted paper collage of a zebra motif.
Year of artwork: 1989.
Artwork size: 42 cm x 23 cm, 16.5 in. x 9.1 in.
Artwork size with frame: 67 cm x 44 cm, 26.4 in. x 17.3 in.
Signed: signed at bottom right “R. Kapeliari ‘89”. Titled at middle center, both in French and in Greek "E/A Βασίλισσα της Αφρικής. Reine d'Afrique”. Also inscribed at top left side: "Chaque mit me j'offre".
Provenance: Directly from the artist.
Condition: Excellent condition!
Rania Kapelari is listed in: “Directory of Greek Artists 16th-20th century”, Melissa editions, 1998, volume 2, pg. 124.
Her work has been presented by ERT (Greek Public TV) in 2006 in the series "Psychografimata" (Phycographs), highlighting the work of prominent Greek artists of contemporary and modern art such as S. Antonakos, Y. Kounelis, R. Kapeliari, Pavlos, V. Kaniari, K. Varotso, etc.
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RANIA KAPELARI SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE:
Rania Kapeliari was born in Athens in 1960. She studied painting and mosaics in the School of Fine Arts in Paris, studied monumental art of the Mediterranean in the Archeological School in Cairo with an Egyptian government scholarship and printmaking techniques at the School of Fine Arts in Paris with a scholarship of IKY. She attended the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris. Her works can be found in the National Gallery in Athens, Alpha Bank collection, etc.
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