Balabanidis

Featured Artist at Orlik Gallery

Bringing Color to Life

Born in 1952 in the heart of Athens, his journey into the world of visual arts began at a young age, He quickly moved from the field of decoration and craftsmanship to painting. In 1982, he met Theodoros Pantos, a painter from Athens, (1932-2013), from whom he later learned at the “Veloudaki” studio, focusing on design and color, until 1985. An important reference in his studies during the same period, both in the workshop and later in his artistic pursuits, was always Petros Koufovasilis. Throughout his journey, he experimented with color, composition, and the diversity that materials, whether related to painting or not, could provide and achieve the results he sought through them. He made several references to great painters such as Giorgio De Chirico, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt van Rijn, and more broadly to art movements such as Cubism, Surrealism, Renaissance, and abstract painting. The subject matter of his compositions varies in categories that depict fantastical landscapes, often incorporating everyday objects with geometric forms. In 2000, during a random walk in Piraeus’s Perama, he was inspired by the massive structures of tankers and the “margin” they provided for dynamic compositions and a new area in painting to work on. Since then, he mainly focused on the study of ships and the forms they could take in his works. Christophoros Balabanidis has been a member of the art collective “SYN” since 1982. His journey and work are mentioned in the “Dictionary of Greek Painters” by Melissas Publications.

Artworks by Balabanidis