Poster BIKEART Exhibition | VOL 4

Tomorrow, Friday 27th, an exeptional exhibition will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece. The 4th annual “Poster Bikeart Exhibition” in an effort to promote cycling through art and to support the program “Painting School Buildings”.
The 30 artists that participate, coming from Thessaloniki from the world of streetart, graphic design, comics and tattoo are:
Apset, Beetroot, Gra-fistiki, Dolphins, Inva, Ionas, Jasone, Keiken, Kez, Live2, Miro, Nade, Nastwo, Reb, RedFish, Same84, Semiotik, Tsoda, Viktor Koen, John Galanis, Thanasis George, Claus Gkogktzilas, Damos Stavros, Thanos Zakopoulos, Veti Karvounari, Lefteris Kokolios, Effie Kyrtsoudi, Melina Papadopoulos, Dimitris Savvaidis, Sophia Spyrliadou and Christos Tsoleridis.

The artworks’ thematic is cycling and 10 copies for each art, signed and numbered, will be available for sale at the symbolic price of 10 euros. The revenues will support painting murals in schools in areas of the city (the “Painting School Buildings”) endorced by the Ministry of Education and Mayoralty Education Thessaloniki.

Other parallel activities open to the public:
* Wall painting with cycling as the subject, in the city school, Sunday, the 29th March
* Presentation of the coffee-table book “The bicycle in Greece 1880-2012”
* Exhibition of cycling books and magazines
* Draw gifts for the attendees at the exhibition opening (draw incudes Bicycle, album art, etc.) Friday, March 27, 2015.

The opening of the exhibition will take place at the Toss Gallery-Ladoze.
Opening: Friday, March 27 / 22.00
Opening hours: 20.30- 02.00 / 27 March – 2 April 2015

 

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Organizers:
Bikeart.gr – facebook.com/bikeart.gr
Urbanact.gr – facebook.com/zografizontasxolikaktiria

HOSTING-SUPPORT:
Toss Gallery / Coctail Bar La Doze
Vilara 1 Avenue
facebook.com/pages/Toss-Gallery

Maria Papaefstathiou

VISUAL DESIGNER since 1996 and blogger since 2010. Living in Athens, Greece. She has been focusing her research on poster design and particularly on social poster design and portrait design. Her main poster project is a series of posters celebrating great personalities of traditional and popular culture in Greece and Jamaica. These include actors, singers, musicians, poets etc. This is an ongoing project. “I believe that design is a powerful tool that we designers can use to spark enthusiasm, change mindsets and bring positive actions to our world and our culture”. FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF GRAPHICART-NEWS.COM BLOG. She carefully curates high-quality designs, illustrations, and art, from all over the world that will teach and provoke other designers. Many consider her blog to be an exceptional educational tool. CO-FOUNDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGGAE POSTER CONTEST which was launched on December 2011, partnering, the creative activist Michael Thompson aka Freestylee. (www.reggaepostercontest.com)

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