In the painting entitled: “SOUL & SPIRIT” the viewer often identifies with the painter’s emotions, which depict religious, spiritual values, which at the same time become rational values for her.
“Beauty” for Sofia Fountoulaki aims at the completeness of her
spiritual, moral and psycho-emotional world, where her plastic
expression corresponds to the emotion she transmits to the viewer,
who views the work with absolute silence, contemplation and
absorption. The artist acts with the idea and the intellect, the
moment she knows that in art there is not always imitation of nature.
That is, the expression of the abstract has nothing to do with the
passive acceptance of the viewer, but with his active participation, in
order to have the ability to understand the meaning of the work. This
particular painting is characterized by its spiritual character. The
composition of the work is simpler and is limited to two or three
stripes of color in horizontal succession and two in vertical
succession, where the painter tries to give the sense of the
landscape, with the correspondence of sea, sky and earth.
The transition in colors is from one color to another without an end, but also without a beginning. In her work, both her technique and her
psyche are not completely independent. She expresses human
emotions in her palette, in order to create points of communication
with the public, so that her work becomes accessible, understandable and acceptable to the viewer.
Dr. Stella Piperaki Art historian.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Sofia Fountoulaki was born in Chania, Crete, and lives and works in Athens. She is a painter and writer. She has studied Economics – Insurance, Administration and Management of Insurance Organizations at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).
She was an executive in the financial sector, from which she resigned to focus solely on Art. She has studied Art at the HELLENIC AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ATHENS and at the VACALO ART & DESIGN COLLEGE. She has studied Art History with the Art Historian and Theorist Mr. Pantelis Tsavalos.
She is the group’s visual arts director for UNESCO PIRAEUS & ISLANDS, a member of UNESCO TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES GREECE, the Association of Visual Artists of Greece APELIS and other selected visual arts organizations and associations.
She has organized solo exhibitions and has presented a sample of her work in a sufficient number of exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
She has been awarded for her visual arts work by the INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL OLYMPIAD IN DELPHI in 2022, UNESCO PIRAEUS AND ISLANDS in 2019, etc.
Indicatively, her works are hosted at the AGRICENTO Archaeological Site in Sicily, the Museum of National Resistance in Heliopolis, the Archaeological Museum of Chania, the VILLA RODOPI Contemporary Art Gallery in Argostoli, the Art Gallery of the Municipality of Chania, the Art Gallery of the Municipality of Cholargos – Papagos, the Orthodox Academy of Crete, the Museum of Popular Tradition of Kaminarata of Kefalonia, UNESCO PIRAEUS AND ISLADS, etc.
She has published theoretical texts on art and not only in the printed press, in electronic media, in collective volumes and elsewhere, such as in the Encyclopedia CHARI PATSI, in the historical publication PHILOLOGIKI PROTOCHRONIA, in “Window to Art”, a publication of the Philological Group of Greece, in the Literary Creation of the Union of Greek Writers, etc.
She serves as a Peace Ambassador at the World Literary Forum for Peace and Human Rights, an Alternate Board Member of the World Philosophical Forum and a Certified Citizen of the Earth, a Cultural Attaché of the World Organization for Cultural Diplomacy IACD.
She is a member of the Epicurean Philosophy “Garden of Athens”, the “Association of Friends of the Acropolis”, the Union of Greek Writers, the International Society of Writers and Artists, etc.
She is also a member of the Observatory of International Organizations and Globalization (PADOP), a member of the Political Association of Women PSG, etc.
e-mail: Sofia.fountoulaki@gmail.com