TRANSPORTATION CONTAINERS
Maro Theodorou, in her work “Transportation Containers”, outlines an entire system of moving minerals in a more traditional – ancient way, which aesthetically fits the worldview of Serifos. The vessels are made of stoneware clay, glazed with oak ash and fired at 1260°C, mixed with crushed rocks from Megalo Livadi Bridge, the turn in Avessalos, Malliadiko and Agia Triada. This mix, built by hand using the coiling technique, transfuses a style that suits the manual way of working in the mines of Serifos, where the workers moved the rocks with their own bodies as the main tool. The basic materials, hair, wood, handles and lid made of island stones, create a feeling similar to that of the depths of the earth, where the various types of rocks are mined and provide a more industrial feel to these earth containers. More precisely, just as the lithosphere is not a single surface but consists of smaller surfaces that slide over the solid mantle, so containers are made up of smaller pieces that all together create a surface that fulfills its purpose when it transports the pieces of this soil.The transportation containers act as a medium, which connects the outside with the inside, the outter with the inner, the being with the appearance. A perpetual metaphor, which is born from the earth to end up and transfigure into a new matter through it.
- Ceramic Forms
- Stoneware Clay
- Glaze with oak ash and crashed rocks from Megalo Livadi Bridge, Avessalos Turn, Malliadiko and Agia Triada
- Firing at 1260C
- Technique: Coiling
MARO THEODOROU
MARO THEODOROU
- Kastraki, Kalambaka 424200, Greece
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Maro Theodorou was born in Kalambaka in 1982. She lives and works in Kalambaka, Greece. Since 2003 she runs her own studio and art gallery where she exhibits her work as well as that of other artists.
STUDIES:
2017 - 2018 Lifelong education for children with special needs
2006 - 2012 - Athens School of Fine Arts, Degree in Sculpture
2005 - 2007 - Mountain Guide Diploma, IEK (public institute of vocational training), Kalambaka
2007 - Course in Materials Science & Technology, Konstantinos Tarkasis Ceramics School, Athens
2000 - 2001 - School of Ceramics, Stavroupoli Municipality, Thessaloniki (under municipal scholarship)
1998 - 2001 - ΤΕΕ Public School of Ceramics, OAED (Manpower Employment Organization), Oraiokastro, Thessaloniki
EXHIBITIONS:
2024 -Group exhibition ‘’Women Ceramic Artists of Greece’’, Greek Ceramix Contemporary and Mon Coin Studio, Athens
2024 - Group exhibition ‘’Ceramic Jewelry’’ JELO6: Jewelry + Objects + Our6 Senses x Mon Coin Studio , Athens
2023 - Group exhibition “Creative Meteorisms”, Kastraki, Meteora – Kalampaka. 2023 - Group exhibition “Biennale Internationale De Céramique – Autour de la Terre II”, Biot, France.
2023 - Group exhibition “L’ÉTÉ GREC’’, Moncoinstudio, Athens.
2023 - Group exhibition ‘’Preconscious Landspaces’’, Ainalaiyn Space, London.
2022 - Group exhibition ‘’Water Jug’’, 6exi Contemporary Ceramics, Thessaloniki.
2021 – Manager of the Group exhibition “Contemporary ceramics”, Geologic Museum, Kastraki Kalabaka, Greece.
2021 - Group exhibition “Sake Cup Project”, New York, Usa
2021 – Group exhibition “200 years from the 1821 revolution”, Athens voice, Athens
2021 – Group exhibition, 6th Ceramic Exhibition, Ancient Olympia, Greece
2021 – Group exhibition, “melana”, Greek-American Union, Athens
2020 - 9th ceramic exhibition “Exodos Mesologiou”, art gallery Exodos, Athens
2019 – 8th ceramic exhibition “Exodos Mesologiou”, art gallery Exodos, Athens
2018 – Exhibition “WEDO Giving Project”, School of fine Arts, Athens
2018 – Exhibition “Cups and clayed”, Historic fotoshop Manthos, Trikala
2018 – Group exhibition, “Art as a way out of sexual probles”, St Petersburg, Russia
2015 – Group exhibition “NOW”, gallery Alma, Trikala, Greece
2014 - Group exhibition ‘Images of the Sea’ a collaboration of PERSEUS project (Policy-oriented marine Environmental Research for the Southern European Seas) and the Career Office of the Athens School of Fine Arts. Nikos Kessanlis Exhibition space, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens
2013- Group exhibition, Eco Art Festival exhibition Tra(n)shformation - the unnecessary & the elaborate, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.
2013 - Affordable Art Fair at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York, USA.
2009 - Group exhibition, Why Cinema Now? 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation building, Thessaloniki
2005-2010 - She has participated in 33 group exhibitions of sculpture, painting, and ceramics in Greece and abroad
2008 - Italy Centro Culturale S.Francesco, Arcevia, Ancona, Italy
2008 - Porta Venezia, Milan, Italy
2005 - Group exhibition, Le Haillan, Bordeaux, France.
2003- 2010 - Art workshops in Crete, Delphi, Kavala, and Slovenia, with artists from Germany, Italy, Turkey, Slovenia and Greece.
PUBLICATIONS:
2023 - «Autour de la Terre II», LiFo, ΑΘΗΑΝ, Ιούλιος 2023.
2023 – «AUTOUR DE LA TERRE», BIOT INFOS, BIOT, FRANCE 2023.
2022 – Her sculpture Pigges is in the magazine of Athens voice, January 2022.
2022 – Tribute to the “Contemporary ceramics” exhibition, on the magazine New Ceramics, January 2022.
2021 – Tribute of “6th ceramics exhibition” Ancient Olympia, on the New Ceramics magazine, June 2021.
2014 - Recycle Bin sculpture included in Lark Crafts publication «500 Figures in Clay, Volume 2” (500 best works in clay worldwide), published in February 2014 by the American Sterling Publishing Co.
DISTINCTIONS-AWARDS
2013- She received a distinction in the Lark Crafts competition «500 Figures in Clay» with her work Recycle Bin.
2001- She received 2 awards from the Melina Merkouri Foundation for aesthetic and creative achievement.
She is a member of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2016-2018 - Professor of Drawing in public elementary schools within the Greek National Education System, Trikala, Greece
2014- Professor of Drawing in public elementary schools within the Greek National Education System, Trikala, Greece
2014- Professor of Drawing and History of Art at the Public School of Woodcarving of Kalambaka, the only school of its kind in Greece
2019-2014- Teacher of drawing, painting and ceramics, Kastraki Art Studio, Kalambaka, Greece
2011-2014 - active member of the Kalambaka theater group Epi Stagon, where she works as a set designer and co-organizer of artistic events
2013- Fund-raising art exhibition for Ark of the World, (non-profit association in support of disadvantaged children).
2013- Curator for opening of permanent exhibition, Folklore Museum of Malakasi, Metsovo
2013- Set Design and catalogue design for the theatre play Senzas by Pantelis Horn, Epi Stagon theater group
2013 - Curator for the Pavlos Balogiannis exhibition, Portrayal of Meteora, Kalambaka
WORKS IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS:
City of Rhodes Modern Greek Art Museum, Rhodes, Greece
Malaki Center of Ceramics, Volos, Greece