PETROS KARAVEVAS

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Petros Karavevas was born in 1963 in Hermoupolis (Syros). He lives and works in Athens. Studies from 1994 to 1996 he studied painting in Lyon (France) and he continued in Athens from 1996 to 2000, at the Center of Letters and Arts “Apopsi”, having as teacher George Rorris.
He made six personal exhibitions and has participated in many collective ones. Lot of his paintings belongs to important private andpublic collections as well as to the Kapodistrian University of Athens.

ΠΕΤΡΟΣ ΚΑΡΑΒΕΒΑΣ

The way Karavevas writes is particularly interesting as he looks like a good user of the paintbrush and the technique of painting as well as he has a very good relation to the color scales and his painting have a color gama plenty of hospitality towards the glance which captures the viewer.
Charis Kabouridis, Art historian

Petros Karavevas paints faces as if they were animated landscapes which balance between youth and wear demanding a little more Time. His research uses the big tradition of the portrait in western art while it becomes more personal when he completes his subjects with bilateral subtle narrations.
Manos Stefanidis, Art critic