COSTAS       GAITIS               Visual Artist

            I was born, I live and I work during the last 17 years, in Athens Greece, after 20 year studies and life in Paris-France (1980-2000).
     I start working on stone and marble at the “Preparatory Fine Arts school of Panormos” at Tinos Island (Greek Cycladic Island) at my 12th years old, where I studied for three years - after the primary school - Free-hand and Linear drawing, Sculpture, Painting, Marble techniques, Casting techniques, History of Arts, and History of Greek Literature.
      At the age of fifteen, I was admitted to the “Preparatory Department” of the “Athens Superior School of Fine Arts” and then, at 1970 I was chosen with the highest entry mark of all the applicants to the Sculpture workshop of the “Athens Superior School of Fine Arts”.
      At the beginning of 1980 I arrived in Paris for postgraduate studies. I was admitted to the “E.N.S.B.A. Paris School of Fine Arts" Paris VI University, to the postgraduate workshop of Sculptor CESAR.
       In order to perfect my theoretical studies, I was admitted to the D.E.A. (third circle postgraduate studies) at “Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne” University, where I attended seminars in Philosophy of Arts (Aesthetics), focusing on “Harmony and Mathematics in Arts ”.
       During my residents in Paris, I exercised the profession of: “Creator for professional and private environments”, creating forty-eight (48) projects in total, three (3) in Athens (1973 – 1978) and forty-five (45) in Paris France (1982 – 1999).
       I participate in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad. My work are found in private collections in America, Belgium, France, Greece, Japan, Spain, Italy and Britain.

 

 

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        Costas Gaïtis, drawing on the formidable reserves of a tradition founded upon tens of centuries of cultural gestation and the rhythms of cosmic harmony, introduces us to the rarified atmosphere of artistic evolution with an enchanting beckon, which reflects an exclusive personal quality and the directness of his own spiritual ethos.
       The formal diversity of his aesthetic style and sensory class, result in refined, ingenious and innovative expressions of a clear inner cause.
       These expressions are immediately connected to the fertility of the experience he garnered as an apprentice in the studios of Greek artists and scholars active since the 30's and the 40's, as much as to the teachings of the French avant-garde, absorbed during his twenty year tenure in Paris.
       Τhe permanent search for the unadorned and absolutely necessary is evident in his work, embodied in the materiality of marble, metal and color. It rhymes with his worldview and his faith in the endogenous (inner) forces of artistic creation. It is rooted in the cleanliness of his design philosophy, the precision rendering, the catalytic role of light and his work discrete character.
       Gaïtis has the fortune to hail from - and inadvertently carry the heritage of - that small place that gave birth among others, to Skalkotas, Lytras and Chalepas: the historical fine arts community of Panormos, in the Greek Cycladic island of Tinos.

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