Special Information for the Artist
Born in Athens. Plastic "cosmography" and author of philosophical-aesthetic texts and collections of poetry, lives, works and presents the multifaceted work of the triangle under Athens-Paris-Brussels. International artists events: 32 solo exhibitions and numerous group and Presentations term in Museums and Public Institutions-Zappeion, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Palais Galliera (Paris), Grand Palais (Paris), Maison de laCulture du Harve (France), Palaisdes Beaux-Arts (Brussels), Cultural Center of Ioannina, "Technopolis" City of Athens, etc.-in Gallery-Galerie Charpentier, «Ecole de Paris» 1962 - «Foires» - Fiac Paris Art-Actuel Brussels LINEART-Ghent, Banks, Hotels, National Bank of Greece (Paris), Hotel Meurice (Paris) -, Shops, ocean liners and the Greek Embassy in Paris, the Paris Consulate and the European Union in Brussels. By his artistic contribution involved Greek and foreign critics and art historians-Evaggelidis Spiteris, Vakalo, Lydakis, Iliopoulos-Rogan, Chris, Mavrommatis ... R. Cogniat, M. Tapie, J.-A. Franca, J.A. Cartier, P. Restany, M. Ragon, Paule Gauthier, H. Galy-Carles, A. Viray, LL.Sosset, P. Caso, G. Toebosch etc.-and his works are in the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Art Gallery of the Mayor of Athens, National Gallery, the Ministry of Culture the National Center of the National Bank of Greece, the Museum of Ion northern Gallery of Contemporary Art (Mesolongi), the Pasteur Institute of Greece and to Greek and foreign private collections.
1951: First abstract works.
1952: Diploma of Arts School of Athens.
1958-66: "Diastimikos Kilidismos"
1966-78: "Siniparksiaki dialektiki plastiki" and inauguration of a new post-abstract period.
1979-2004: "Siniparksiaki kosmografiki" with original design and use since 1979 of aesthetic terms: cosmography (instead of painting).
From 1940 to 1990: a series of unpublished poems, and since 1970: partial post-philosophical aesthetic texts focused, inter alia, against both the old slogan, “The Death of Art “, and artistic creation-texts accompanied by "Antimanifesto" of 1976 and numerous interviews to Greek and foreign «media».
BOOKS: 1990: «Yannis Grammatikopoulos-In orbit of cosmogony," monograph D. Iliopoulos-Rogan and bilingual texts by the artist, publishing Levels, Athens.
1990: «De la Peinture a la Poesie», poems in French and drawings by the artist accompanied by poems of the Belgian Amina-Ram and Jacqueline Ballman, versions Levels, Athens.
2002: «Yannis Grammatikopoulos-A la recherché d 'une peinture cosmique», a monograph of the Belgian Leon-Louis Sosset (AICA) and bilingual texts by the artist, publishing Cactus, Athens.
2003: "Layers-Kosmostroseis" 102 poems of John Grammatikopoulos, Cactus editions, Athens.
