MOSAIC LABORATORY – DIRECTOR DAFNI ANGELIDOU
MOSAIC COURSE OUTLIN
COURSE OUTLINE
Attending the course in the mosaic workshop is structured in three annual study cycles (six semesters). It is possible for students to choose it from the second to the fourth year of their studies. During all three cycles, the teaching material focuses mainly on visual issues and aesthetic-technical information regarding the construction of mosaics. Students learn all the basic techniques of making mosaics, so that they are able to make mosaics with the technique of indirect and direct voting and the use of different mortars as well as large-scale mosaics in metal and wooden crates, mosaics in epoxy resins, wax , special constructions or in the third dimension The theoretical issues are the students’ introduction to the essential concepts of mosaic as it has existed throughout the ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine tradition. However, the course focuses on the study of plastic solutions that are also applied to modern mosaics. The different ways of voting, the different design styles and the different perception of space are examined, as it is shaped according to the eras in the history of art and in the personal creations of contemporary artists.
The aim of the course is to consolidate and explore the possibilities of the medium of mosaic.
As a material, the mosaic can express all kinds of visual searches. The students choose to negotiate visual issues that concern them, and understand the overall picture of the possibilities of the medium, through the process of creating their own designs – mosaic works. The mosaic workshop is inextricably linked to the core workshop that the students attend. the possibility of preparing a diploma thesis in the medium of Mosaic or to integrate the medium into other subjects, if the students so wish.
There are projections of images from ancient, Byzantine and modern mosaic works. There are also screenings of students’ works from previous years (from the archive of the workshop which includes all the mosaics made in the mosaic workshop from 1987 to the present day).
MOSAIC LABORATORY PROGRAM
The laboratory operates on a daily basis 16:00 – 20:00 with compulsory attendance of students Monday, Wednesday, Friday 17:00 – 20:00 according to the ASKT operating schedule.
The specified meetings with the professors and contact times:
Director: Monday, Wednesday 17:00 – 20:00
Teaching staff: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 16:00 – 20:00
Contact number of the laboratory: 210 4801309
LABORATORY ACTIVITIES
At regular intervals there are screenings with artist presentations, presentations of mosaic techniques, mosaic history and contemporary public and private spaces with large-scale mosaic works. Activities outside the laboratory and educational excursions are also carried out.
DAPHNAE AGGELIDOU / PROFESSOR
O. G.1497/C/29.08.2019
email: daggelidou@asfa.gr
Daphnea Angelidou lives and works in Athens.
He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts (1980-1986) with Yannis Moralis and Dimitris Mitaras and mosaic with Yannis Kolefas. She is a Professor at A.S.K.T., and teaches in the Mosaic Department from 1987 until today.
He has presented Paintings and Mosaics in Athens, in 15 individual exhibitions, in the retrospective exhibition at the National Archaeological Museum, ” Today mosaics”, in 2013, and in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
Her works are in public and private collections, museums (Goulandris Museum, Athens) and art galleries, in Greece and abroad.
INDIVIDUAL REPORTS
2021 Evripides Art Gallery, Geography of the Night, Athens
DIMITRA ANTONOPOULOU / LABORATORY TEACHING STAFF (EDIP)
O. G. 1042/C/08.06.2019
email: dantonopoulou@asfa.gr
Dimitra Antonopoulou was born in Melbourne in 1975. She attended painting courses (1990-1993) at the Kalamata School of Art.
He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1993-1998) with a scholarship from IKY, with teachers: Triantafyllos Patraskidis and Chronis Botsoglou and mosaic (1995-1998) with Ioannis Valavanidis and Dafni Angelidou.
In 1997, with the Erasmus program, he attended courses at Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot-Watt University.
In 2020, she completed her master’s degree at the EAP “Graphic Arts and Multimedia” with a thesis topic “Contemporary art in the metro and electric railway stations of Athens, Creating a map for touristic and educational use.” During her master’s degree, her project “Voices of the poet K. Cavafy” was selected and shown at the National Audiovisual Institute in Warsaw and at the Gutenberg Museum in Mains on 24 November as part of the exhibition “Media Art Exhibition Akademos, A Place for Poets and Philosophers”
ANGELIKI KOKONAKI / SPECIAL TECHNICAL LABORATORY STAFF (ETEP)
O. G. 259/NPDD/18.11.2002
email: akokonaki@asfa.gr
Kokonaki Angeliki lives and works in Athens. He was born in Chania, Crete in 1970. He studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts (1990-1997) with Theodoros Papagiannis, Efthimios Panourgias and Nikos Tranos, painting (1997-2003) with Dimitris Mytaras and Zacharias Arvanitis and mosaic (1992- 1996) with Ioannis Valavanides and Dafni Angelidou.
He teaches at A.S.K.T. , in the compulsory elective mosaic workshop from 1998 until today. Since 2002 he belongs to the permanent educational staff of A.S.K.T. EBIT position.
To her credit, she has held four individual exhibitions and has taken part in many group exhibitions, from 1990 until today, in Greece and abroad. Her works are in public and private collections in Greece and adorn the covers of literary books and poetry collections. She also participated as a speaker at conferences and workshops on mosaic.
Student Works
Elsa Kitsiou 2015 -2016
Georgia Gerogianni 2009-2010
Iliana Kiriakidou 2014-2015
Maria Kotsou 2015-2016
Eleni Makropoulou 2020-2021
Gogo Sarantopoulou 2020-2021
Koralia Krikeli 2018-2019
Helen Manali 2018-2019
Benjamin Deshoce 2013-2014
Panagiotis Papadopoulos 2006 -2007
Marianthi Giannopoulou 2015-2016
Cristina Panagopoulou 2019 -2020