Alexandra Mantzari

Alexandra Mantzari was born in Larissa in June 1989.
In 2008 she entered the Graphic Arts Technology Department of TEI of Athens, where she graduated in 2012.In 2016 she completed a Web Design program at the Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2017 she was the first to enter the School of Fine Arts at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She studies painting with professors George Tsakiris and Vassilis Vassilakakis. Her works have been featured on the covers of art magazines and poetry collections, belong to private collections and she has participated in exhibitions in Greece and abroad. She holds the first prize for a new artist in the Osten Biennale of Design (Skopje) and the third prize for design in the national competition "Parallel Roads" at the Vafopoulio Cultural Centre of Thessaloniki.

The themes of her works refer to external and "internal" landscapes. Through the need to express her psychic world and to free herself from it, gesturally but primarily mentally, she creates imaginary scenes or landscapes. Materials such as oils,charcoal, oil pastels and mixed techniques are used on canvas papers and materials to describe the "scene". The works are characterised by a tendency to escape, a personal flight, where in its passage it leaves its mark, with lines that add tension, a dramatic element and a sense of movement. Through abstract expressionism, the matierra created gives a sense of the living, the real. The writings are surrounded by a dark, white or even transparent background. The shapes and graphics created describe the mood of the soul in an abstract way. They begin and look like symbols interacting with large forms in space. Symbols that describe the subconscious and the spiritual, seemingly conversing with each other and defining a struggle between the visible and invisible world.