Born in Piraeus/Greece, Erato Tsouvala has studied painting, history of art and modern art and has practiced in the laboratory of Greek artist Antonis Politakis. Erato has exhibited her works in numerous group exhibitions in Greece, and recently has started to promote her artwork abroad. Her work is influenced by Byzantine hagiography, and is full of eroticism together with a quality of naked forms.
Erato is member of the International artist's project Art Beyond Borders
She has been selected for the International group exhibition Art Unbound in Alexandria / Egypt
Internet presentations:
Solo exhibition at 218ac Contemporary virtual art gallery http://www.218ac.it/galleria/Personali/Tsouvala/tsouvala.htm
Art Archive, art database http://www.artarchiv.com/ Exhibitions: Group exhibitions in Greece
Gallery “KLIMAKA” Gallery “Tassos” Hotel “Congo Palace” Youth club of Piraeus
International Exhibitions
Art Festival Al Talaki “Art Unbound” – Alexandria January 2001
“Worte und Bilder” – Landesbibliothek Linz/Austria May 3rd 2001 http://www.eurolab.at/art/einladung.htm
Sweden – show at JOENKOEPING May 4th 2001
ART BEYOND BORDERS Exhibition Generali Insurance Company Linz / Austria June 2001
Pulcheria Arte Piacenza – Italy, 7 / 22 settembre 2001
ART BEYOND BORDERS Exhibition Municipal Gallery Burg Stolberg Stolberg / Germany
21 October 2001 - 11 November 2001
HEART2ART – Steninge palace Kultur center, Stockholm, SWEDEN January 2002
20 July 2002- 4 August 2002 Grillparzerhof, Kirchberg o.d. Donau / Austria
19 July 2002-4 August 2002 ART BEYOND BORDERS Exhibition Castle of Travo / Italy
August 2002 ART BEYOND BORDERS Exhibition Castle of Fontanellato - Italy
24 October 2002 - 16 November 2002 ART BEYOND BORDERS Exhibition Galerie Kandinsky Lerchenfelderstraße 13 / zu Neustiftgasse 16 1070 Vienna / Austria
Current Exhibition:
26th March – 30th April 2003 Etairia Makedonikon Spoudon – gallery “Peristylio” 2, Ethnikis Amynis str. Thessaloniki - Greece
Comments:
The poetic quality of Erato's art often depends on the fact that forces and drives of which she is unaware motivate her. Erato's paintings are a vehicle of her feelings and an expression of her loving, suffering and desiring. Manfred Peter Mueller I was impressed, especially with the very loose acrylic pieces that have a strong feeling of human form, and yet are so free and exuberant that their energy goes way beyond the limitations of the human form. Claude Smith
Erato Tsouvala, from Greece, reminds me at once of American representational art at mid-century and Germany's postmodern reworking of it decades later. In His Touch, a long line weaves together dynamic, rather sexy figures with the white field showing through. John Haber in New York City
Artistic Statement
The innovative style of Erato’s paintings immediately captures the art-lovers. Works of art deeply dedicated to the human being, strongly manifest the poetic existence of love and passion, scented with a unique manner. Figures are coupled so tunefully but they also keep their individual essence. One can see an ancient Greek breath with a Byzantine hagiography consistency but the real outcome generates a new touch that only Erato could introduce. The forms join into flesh clusters, where from an incomparable eroticism emerges, that tends to spiritualize the image and to compose a hymn to love. The bodies are twisted with elegance in excess, creating unprecedented twins that stimulate and turn out really sensational. The more Erato’s works are observed, the merrier it is realized that a continuous effort of inner research is latent Erato’s Greek parentage is clearly plotted in her works of art, where Mediterranean blue and soil brown colors, combined with the background white, guide the viewer to a soul exaltation, while the red strokes inspire the passion. Erato’s paintings go beyond conventional forms and manieres, bringing new era to the modern artists’ community and sending her sunny poetic message.
by Jim Sofiou
