Odysseas Selios
Odysseas Selios was born in Dervitsani in 1970. He studied painting from 1984 to 1988 in the Arts Highschool of Argirokastro. In 1994 he graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, in the painting department. Since 1995, he is a member of Hellenic Chamber of Arts and also from 1998 he is a member of Art-Teachers Union, Greece. He has staged five personal exhibitions and he has taken part in several group exhibitions. He lives and works in Ioannina from 1990 as a painter and an Arts teacher in secondary education schools.
He has also participated with students in several action programs, educational and environmental content, with the most prestigious 1st prize in the 1st Panhellenic Sketch Competition for the school year 2011-2012, and 1st prize in the same competition in the school year 2012- 2013.
“The beauty of landscape painting is usually about the schematic on the painting surface of the beauty of the place it represents. The artist rarely manages to transfuse the landscape elements of his own temperament and soul. However, the works of Odysseas Selios constitute exactly that rare case. The expressiveness of his work is also reinforced by the technique of his painting. The colour gives the opportunity to the artist to capture the changes between light and shadow, but also to reflect their impact on nature’s colours and the wealth of their shades, capturing the expressiveness of the creator himself, his feelings and his thoughts on his painting’s theme. In his landscapes, Selios shows the expectation of the rain, the expressiveness of the cloudy sky, the light that goes through the leaves and colours the environment with its warmth, the magnificence of traditional architecture, the changes of the seasons. The pictures the viewer is watching in his works of art are familiar and intimate, scenery of Epirus. The eye of the artist translates them into very personal, artistic pictures. Selios interprets again with his painting loved and familiar scenery and colours them with his dynamic, expressive, optimistic touch. In his works of art we won’t see another version of Epirus or places he has lived and loved, but landscape deeply rooted in his soul, which are transformed into expressive, fantastic works of art.”
Eleni Margari, Art Historian
Personal Exhibitions
1988, Dervitsanis Cultural Center, Argyrokastro.
1989, Municipal Gallery of Argyrokastro.
1995, French Institute of Ioannina
2014, Technohoros Gallery, Ioannina.
2018, Ioannina “Esther and Joseph Gani Foundation”
Group Exhibitions
1994, Ground floor of Ioannina Town Hall.
1995, Municipality of Aglantzia, Limassol, Cyprus.
1995, Municipal Library, Larnaca, Cyprus.
1997, Ground floor of Doliani Community Shop, Ioannina.
1999, Cultural Center of the Municipality of Ioannina.
2000, Zappeion Hall, Athens.
2002, Elafotopou Cultural Center, Ioannina.
2006, Society for Continental Studies, Ioannina.
2007, Angry Portrait, Ioannina.
2009, Cultural Center of the Municipality of Ioannina.
2009, International Painting Symposium, Cultural Center of Municipality of Koritsa, Albania.
2010, “1st Ioannina Art Festival”, Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina.
2011, Cultural Center of the Municipality of Dodoni.
2012, Cultural Center of Dodoni Municipality.
2013, Cultural Center of the Municipality of Ioannina.
2014, Municipal Theater of Argirokastro, Albania.
2014, “Artistic References to the Dominican Theotokopoulos”, GIS, Ioannina.
2015, “ART-A” Continental artists, Municipal Art Gallery of G. Moralis, Arta.
2015, “Painting the Ionian” International Symposium, Municipal Gallery of Saints Saranda, Albania.
2015, “ART 31” Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina.
2016, “Art Dialogues with Giannis Moralis” 100 Years Since His Birth, Municipal Art Gallery of Ioannina.
2017, “PORTaRT”, Igoumenitsa Archaeological Museum.
2017, Exhibition “Painting – Hagiography”, in the framework of the celebrations of March 25, under the auspices of the Consulate General of Greece in Argirokastro, Albania.
2018, Parga Castle, Parga
2019, Parga Castle, Parga
2019, “Artist teachers create” Municipal Art Gallery.
2019, “PORTaRT 2”, Igoumenitsa Archaeological Museum.
2019, “Tirana Internanional Watercolor Biennale” Historical Museum of Tirana