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Julianos KATTINIS

International Greek professional artist, painter and engraver in etching and linoleum graphics.

He was born in 1934, and he has devoted his whole life to painting , artistic research and aesthetics.

He began sketching and studying classical drawing at the age of 11 and painted his first oils on canvas in 1951.

He attended French and English private schools in Jerusalem, Damascus, Beirut and studied Fine Arts  in Cairo, Athens, Paris, Innsbruck, Munich, and finally in Italy, where he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, the AA.BB. - Rome in 1964 with a diploma in painting and engraving.

DAILY AMERICAN                             

Sunday – Monday, May 25 – 26, 1975

Everything in modern Western art, even art foremost in the vangard, can trace its lineage on one side or the other to the classical art of ancient Greece. With that premise, this young and energetic Greek painter naturally feels that any aspect of modern art is part of his birthright for him to adopt as he pleases.

Oils, drawings, prints and multiples at this exhibit prove not only how eclectic he is at relating Greeks to Braque, Picasso, Chagall, Klee and so on, but how adept he is at adjusting his choices to Grecian art as the ideal measure of man. The ancient Greeks have a mythological term for it too: Procrustean. In other words, if it falls short, stretch it, if it overextends, trim it.

Kattinis has limitless imagination and prolific technical command, which lets him treat solemn themes with seemingly irreverent levity. Included in the show is a recent series of panels on the theme of Olympic Games, another classical descendant, to be submitted to an international exhibit in Barcelona later this year. In these Kattinis romps as free as a champion allowed to break training. He says they are meant to honor both athletes and sedentary spectators, without whom the games would be less than a full measure of man.

                                                                                        By  John Hart

Roma 1970

…Julianos Kattinis is a Ulyssean. His life, scattered with adventurous migrations, mirrors his painting, a heap of booty snatched from the conquered lands. Lavish oriental fragments bordering sheer simulacrums of the mythic Olympus, exotic flowers under crystalline skies, hieratic figures with glances revealing ineluctable destinies, surrounded by furious landscapes springing up from a volcano.

                                                                                     by     Ugo Moretti

Innsbruck 1972

  “…The spiritual intellect in Julianos Kattinis’ paintings and engravings emerges from his positive creed toward humanity. The figure of man, simplified and reduced not in its visual intelligibility but rather in conformity with an archaic creative principle, is the dominant theme in all the artist’s works. In its formal and graphic representations - singularly original and distinctive – Kattinis sets man within his extratemporal significance and consciously places him both within and without the problematic of his time…”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            by    Heinz Mackowits

  MAJOR SOLO SHOWS

1962 – Schwabing Arcistrasse 31 – Munich (Germany)

1965 – Palazzo delle Esposizioni – Museum – Roma (Italy)

            Galleria Espace – Damascus (Syria)

            French Cultural Center – Amman (Jordan) – Jerusalem (Israel)

1966 – Galleria L’Amateur – Beirut (Lebanon)

1968 – Galleria Zendrum 107 – Innsbruck (Austria)

            Galleria Schumacker – Munich (Germany)

1969 – Centro Internazionale “ Il Poliedro” – Roma (Italy)

1970 – Galleria Soligo – Roma (Italy)

             Galleria La Stadera – Sulmona (Italy)

1972 – Museo di Roma Palazzo Braschi – Roma (Italy)

1974 – Galleria Dé Carbonesi – Bologna (Italy)

1975 – Galleria Fidia – Roma (Italy)

            Galleria San Carlo – Napoli (Italy)

1976 – Galleria La Sonda – L’Aquila (Italy)

1977 – Sala Comunale delle Esposizioni –Museum – Piraeus-Athens (Greece)

            Galleria Kyklos – Salonika – (Greece)

1981 – Galleria L’Archetto – Teramo (Italy)

1986 – Galleria Centro L. da Vinci – Roma (Italy)

1987 – Villa Politi – Siracusa (Italy)

1988 – La Sponda, Palazzo Cenci – Roma (Italy)

1989 – Graphics in 14 shops in Via della Lungara – Roma (Italy)

1990 – Sala Comunale di Capodimonte – Museum – Lago Bolsena (Italy)

1991 – Brumas Gallery – Messina (Italy)

1992 – Palazzo Savelli – Museum – Albano-Roma (Italy)

            Buchhandlung am Rathaus – Tutzing – Munich (Germany)

1996 – Galleria Il Mondo dell’Arte – Roma (Italy)

            Galleria l’Ippocastano – Roma (Italy)

1998 – Sala delle Grotte, Divino Amore – Roma (Italy)

            A.C. Galleria L’Acquario – Roma (Italy)

2000 – Capital W. Audi Showrooms – Roma (Italy)

            Accademia Internazionale La Sponda – Roma (Italy)

Major large-sized works

1960 – Damascus (Syria) – Indian Pavilion – International Fair (commissioned by the Indian

            Embassy) – Iron and cement sculptured bas-relief, 9x1 m. Tempera murals on

             wooden façade, m.7x3. Two tempera murals on fazonit wood, m. 6x6.

  1966 - Beirut (Lebanon) – Zeituney stylist – oil painting on carved and engraved wood, m. 4x2

 1967 – Innsbruck (Austria) – Hans Lang Beton factory – oil painting on wood, m. 6x2

           (commissioned by the management). The work is displayed inside a large canteen.

 1980 – Cervara – Roma (Italy) - “L’Universo” oil painted mural on rocks, m. 3 diameter.  (commissioned by the municipal council)- National Monument.

  1983 – Lavacchio-Pavullo (Italy) – oil painted mural on an old house front wall, m. 6x6,  (commissioned by  Modena city council).

  1988 – Roma (Italy) –  Scenographic display of paintings in the Teatro Argentina for the “Fontane di Roma” international awards ceremony. Acrylic on canvas paintings, m. 5.5x4.5 .

  1989 – Roma (Italy) –Scenography for Bracciano castle. Acrylic painted panels m. 4x1.5 and    2x1.5.

  1989 – Roma (Italy) –  “Tele Tevere”channel scenography.  Acrylic paintings on canvas.     m.4x1.5 and 2x1.5.

  1997 – Bari (Italy) – “Le Porte del Mediterraneo” on the occasion of the XIII Mediterranean             Games. ( Commissioned by the Municipality of Bari and the Greek Embassy in             Rome. Oil painting on iron.  M. 4x3,25. National Monument.

MAJOR PRIZES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  1957 – 1° Premio les Jeunes Peintres - Centre Cult. Egyptien – Damascus (Syria)

  1962 -  Medaglia d’Oro, VII° Gentes  - Pal. delle Esposizioni – Roma (Italy)

1972 -  Premio Trullo d’Oro, Arte Moderna – org. Ed. R. Mediterranean – Comune di Selva               di Fasano (Italy)

1976 -  Premio Filotrano – org. Ed. Arte Oggi – Castello.Comune di Filotrano – Ancona             (Italy)

1978 -  Premio per un Artista Pittore – Regione Abruzzo. Galleria La Stadera – Pescocostanzo             -Sulmona (Italy)

1984 -  Premio Intern. Valbruna  per l’Arte e la Scienza – Comune di Gabicce (Italy)

             Premio Europa per l’Arte – Hotel Excelsior – Centro Intern. la Sponda – Roma (Italy)

             Premio Solema Arte Intern. – Grand H. Balaverde – Ministero Beni Culturali -                       Catania (Italy)

             Premio Asla, Speciale Grafica – Jolly Hotel –Palermo (Italy)

             Premio Montecitorio per l’Arte Contem. – Roma (Italy)

1989 -  Premio Giorgio Vasari per l’Arte – ed. Comune di Milano – Milano (Italy)

             Premio Intern. Fontane di Roma – Teatro Argentina – Roma (Italy)

MAJOR GROUP SHOWS  (ON INVITATION)

  1964  - XXXII BIENNALE INTERNAZIONALE d’ARTE di VENEZIA - (ITALY))

  1966 -  EXPO DES ARTISTES, MUSEE SURSOCK COSHRAN – BEIRUT-     (LEBANON)

  1975 -  V° BIENAL ARTE E SPORT – PALACIOS REALES ATARAZANAS -             BARCELLONA –(SPAIN)

  1976 -  ARTISTI E CRITICI – CASTELLO FILOTRANO – JESI ANCONA – (ITALY)

  1986 – ARTISTI GRECI IN ITALIA – MUSEO STORICO DI S. ANDREA – MILANO

            (ITALY)

  1997 – ARTE FIERA EXPO 97 – ROMA –(ITALY)

           CASTELLO FORTE SPAGNOLO – L’AQUILA – (ITALY)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY AND  PRESS                   

BOLAFFI ARTE (Paintings) –Catalogue Volume – Bolaffi - Torino1974

BOLAFFI GRAFICA  (etchings) Cat. Vol.  – Bolaffi - Torino 1974

– Dizionario degli ARTISTI  ITALIANI del XX° Secolo – Vol. Cat. Bolaffi  - Torino 1979 FI 

ITALIAN ART IN THE WORLD Series  - Celit - Torino 1993

Newspapers and magazines –since 1964       

Il Popolo, Il Poliedro, Lo Sport, Paese Sera, Il Tempo, Daily American, Foroellenico, Giornale D’Italia, La Sponda, Specchio Economico, L’Unità, Art Market, Avvenire Europa,La Nazione, La Repubblica, Il Secolo, Il Messaggero, Il Resto del Carlino, Ore 12, Tiroler Tagezeitung, Tiroler Nachrichten, Ikathimerini, Taxidhromos, Vradhini, Ta Nea, Polistiki, Thessaloniki, L’Orient, Magazine, Il Campo di Siena, Abendzeitung, Dachauer, Tiroler Nachrichten,Tiroler Tageszeitung.

CATALOGO DEGLI ARTISTI DEL LAZIO - Volume - UNEDI  - Roma 1977

ANNUARIO D’ARTE MODERNA– Volume - A.C.C.A. - Roma 1998

 ANNUARIO DI GRAFICA MONDADORI – Volume -  Mondadori - Milano 1990

MAESTRI CONTEMPORANEI –Volume - Istituto D’Arte -  Milano 1989

 KULTUR BERICHTE AUS TIROL – Catalogue –Innsbruck –1972

ELLINES KALITECHNES TOU EKSOTERIKOU – Depart. of Culture – Athens 1983

KATTINIS  1934-1999 -ART Vol.– Guzzetti – printed by ArteLito Aquila-Roma 1999

HIS WORKS CAN BE FOUND IN THE FOLLOWING  MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

 VIENNA – (AUSTRIA) – Grafiche Sammlung Albertina

AMMAN – (JORDAN) -  Centre Culturel Francais

DAMASCUS – (SYRIA) – Musée d’Art Moderne, Egyptian Cultural Centre

INNSBRUCK – (AUSTRIA) – Stadt Museum, Hans Lang factory

ROMA – (ITALY) – Palazzo Braschi Museum

INNSBRUCK - (AUSTRIA) – Zentrum Arciss 31: Haus der Kunst

JESI  - (ITALY) - Modern Art Mucicipal Museum

MADRID – (SPAIN) – Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporanea

STOCKHOLM – (SWEDEN) – Moderna Museet

PARIS – (FRANCE) – Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

CAPODIMONTE – (ITALY) Municipal Museum

ATHENS – (GREECE) – Kaleidoscopio Centre

SIRACUSA – (ITALY) – Centro Acque Siracusane

PAVULLO – ( ITALY) – Casa dei Francescani

ROMA – (ITALY) – Divino Amore Museum