Andreas Tzanoudakis
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About Artist:
ANDREAS TZANOUDAKIS is a self taught wood sculptor.
Art is something that really moved me from a very early age. Since I was a child I have been painting, making various constructions and carving on any accessible material. In my pursuit of finding the right answers to life, my enterprise was dominated by my love for nature I have always been in touch with. I have dedicated time watching it, trying to understand it, studying it by collecting herbs, fungi, minerals, crystals, fossils and wood for my woodcarving. Thus my life was divided between the mounts of Athos, Samothrace, Drama, Olympus and urban Thessaloniki where I was born in 1960. This is where I remain during the last 20 years working as o woodcarving teacher. Until the age of 27 my creational agony was expressed mainly through my painting; subjects that express intensively a different reality, made with coal or acrylics on walls or any other hospitable surface. The real step with woodcarving was when I started working for a gallery that manufactured handmade painted and wood carved Byzantine icons. My everyday contact with woodcarving gradually led me to start creating works of my own, giving to wood three -dimensional shapes and making this art part of my life. I feel it as a deeper inner need and whenever I practice it, it gives me a great sense of happiness and connection. Always self-taught, I have experimented with every expression on wood, stimulated by my life and my surroundings. I have constructed models, musical instruments, figureheads, signs, works for churches, jewellery and sculptures. My contact with the public lasted for a short period of time through exhibitions and announcements in the press. Now after a long break I am back with my recent work. I look for my wood in nature and I experiment on every piece feeling the need for a continual search for new subjects. I work with chisels and all the materials and preservative substances used on my works are natural; tin, oil, wax, crystals, minerals and other natural elements. Honouring my ancestors, my grandfather who was a precious stones dealer in Odessa and my great grandfather who was a famous Cretan woodcarver.
Andreas Tzanoudakis
Men bodies in a dance
- 1990-2000
- 90 x 127 x 50 cm
- Fine Art Category: sculptures
- Medium: Cedar tree wood, found dead in the peak of a cliff
- Origin: Greece
- Signed: Not signed
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- Price: €1,400.00 EUR
- Seller: Andreas Tzanoudakis, Greece
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- Artplode ID: 4447
- Artplode Seller ID: 8786
About Artist:
ANDREAS TZANOUDAKIS is a self taught wood sculptor.
Art is something that really moved me from a very early age. Since I was a child I have been painting, making various constructions and carving on any accessible material. In my pursuit of finding the right answers to life, my enterprise was dominated by my love for nature I have always been in touch with. I have dedicated time watching it, trying to understand it, studying it by collecting herbs, fungi, minerals, crystals, fossils and wood for my woodcarving. Thus my life was divided between the mounts of Athos, Samothrace, Drama, Olympus and urban Thessaloniki where I was born in 1960. This is where I remain during the last 20 years working as o woodcarving teacher. Until the age of 27 my creational agony was expressed mainly through my painting; subjects that express intensively a different reality, made with coal or acrylics on walls or any other hospitable surface. The real step with woodcarving was when I started working for a gallery that manufactured handmade painted and wood carved Byzantine icons. My everyday contact with woodcarving gradually led me to start creating works of my own, giving to wood three -dimensional shapes and making this art part of my life. I feel it as a deeper inner need and whenever I practice it, it gives me a great sense of happiness and connection. Always self-taught, I have experimented with every expression on wood, stimulated by my life and my surroundings. I have constructed models, musical instruments, figureheads, signs, works for churches, jewellery and sculptures. My contact with the public lasted for a short period of time through exhibitions and announcements in the press. Now after a long break I am back with my recent work. I look for my wood in nature and I experiment on every piece feeling the need for a continual search for new subjects. I work with chisels and all the materials and preservative substances used on my works are natural; tin, oil, wax, crystals, minerals and other natural elements. Honouring my ancestors, my grandfather who was a precious stones dealer in Odessa and my great grandfather who was a famous Cretan woodcarver.
