Sokratis Romilios is an artist, filmmaker and screenwriter based in Greece whose paintings have
been featured in solo exhibitions nationally, as well as in the
United States, China, and France. He employs abstraction and
automatic writing to express the "constant flow of life,
emotions, and thoughts". Romilios creates intuitively and likens
abstract art to life, as he believes that it is more important to
live than to understand.
Artist Statement
I started painting at a very young age since my mother taught me to
paint.
For me, painting is
my oxygen and my refuge in difficult times.
When I paint I feel
that I am creating my own world without limits. I use abstract
shapes and automatic writing which result from improvisation.
Abstract art encompasses all aspects of life.
Abstract art, it is
like life, since it is more important to live than to understand.
I use abstract
shapes and automatic writing to express the constant flow of life,
emotions and thoughts. Through painting I give myself time to observe
them and reconcile with them.
2015, Digital Cinematography - Brighton, UK
2011, Marketing MA, University of Portsmouth
2007, Communication & Digital Media, University of Macedonia, Greece
2003, Black and White Photography - Leica Academy, Athens, Greece
2014/ "Abstract Times", Moca Shanghai
2013 / “Waste Land”,
Texnopolis Athens, Greece
2011 / “Breathe, Keep
Breathing”, Unlimited, Athens Greece
2009 / “Nevermore”,
Bond Street Gallery, 297 Bond St, Brooklyn, NY
2008, Fingerhut
Gallery, / 1205 Prospect St, La Jolla, New York
2008 / “Recall
Athens”, Artio Gallery, Athens Greece
Selected Group
Exhibitions
2015 / Ultra-Colour
Collection Louvre Museum Paris
2014 / Zonta-Makati’s
Filipina Art and Fashion fair
2011/ Drawing
Connections, Siena Art Institute
2011/ “Philosophical
Art”, Greece/ Word Philosophical Forum
2011/ “Drawing
Connections”, Siena Art Institute, /
Siena, Italy
2011/ "Where Art
Philosophy", Philosophical Forum World, Athens, Greece
2009/ “Dreams and
Nightmares”, Texnopolis, Athens, Greece
2008 / “Default
Lanscapes” Daniel Reich Gallery, 23rd Street in Chelsea
2007 / “The Diaries”,
“Sentimental Sequence”, Astra Gallery Caryatidon 8, Akropolis, Athens
Cinematography:
Goodnight my love, 2020 (Screenings: Film Market of Drama Film Festival | Cinergo International Film Festival 2021)
2011 Beton 7,
"The Christmas Island" Nikos Charalambides
2011 Athens Biennale,
«I have to say Fantasiometriki ecstasy," Nadia Argyropoulou
Publications
"Heavy papers" - Photography book cover, Publisher: Ocelotos / ISBN: 9789605647735 / 2019
ArtStrada, Vol2, page 25-26, 2014
Artistio, page 23 - 27, 2014
ArtZone, page 25, 2014
Art on Fire, page 29-31, 2014
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