{"id":759,"date":"2025-12-02T18:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T18:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/?p=759"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:21:20","slug":"%ce%b6%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bc%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bb%ce%ac%ce%ba%ce%b7%cf%82-%cf%80%ce%ad%cf%84%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/2025\/12\/02\/%ce%b6%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bc%cf%80%ce%bf%cf%85%ce%bb%ce%ac%ce%ba%ce%b7%cf%82-%cf%80%ce%ad%cf%84%cf%81%ce%bf%cf%82\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoumboulakis, Petros"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Athens, 1937\nHe studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1956\u20131961) in Yannis Moralis\u2019 studio, receiving an IKY (State Scholarships Foundation) grant every year. After graduation, he continued (1962\u20131964) with Vassilis Vassiliadis in the Decoration and Scenography studio. Between 1962\u20131964, with an IKY scholarship, he studied Byzantine and folk art. From 1961 he worked as a stage designer and costume designer for theater and cinema, as well as an illustrator of books. In 1977 he illustrated the calendar of the Cement Company AGET-HERACLES-OLYMPOS. He decorated the National Bank of Greece pavilion at the \u201fPosidonia \u201984\u201d exhibition. He taught Decorative Applications, Freehand Drawing, and Color at the ATO-Doxiadis School of Decorators (1964\u20131976), Scenography at the ATES and Vakalo Schools (1979\u20131984), and Decorative Applications and Color at the TEI of Athens (1984\u20131986). His first solo painting exhibition was held at Astor Gallery in 1970. These works stemmed from critical and photographic realism but combined influences from magical realism and scenography. The uncanny compositions alluded to political deviation and commented on the tense climate of the Dictatorship. During the Metapolitefsi he turned to depictions of the natural landscape, without abandoning his surrealist references, which drew from archaeological heritage and contemporary society with a poetic gaze. His work gradually evolved with the series \u201fEndless Landscape\u201d: landscapes reminiscent of aerial photographs interpreted space through references to Expressionism and Abstraction. Monumental compositions unfolded across space by means of different, complementary canvases, where the landscape developed endlessly in free progression. In his later series he was preoccupied with the motif of the tree trunk and portraiture (through surreal encounters of prominent personalit ies). One of the most important Greek visual artists of recent decades, he has presented his work in numerous solo exhibitions, most recently \u201fIntroversion in Small Format\u201d (Argo Gallery, 2023) and \u201fSilent Dialogues\u201d (Mykonos Cultural Center, 2025). He has also participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, including the S\u00e3o Paulo Biennale (1969), \u201fPanorama of Greek Painting 1950\u20131975\u201d (Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, 1976), \u201fThe Physiognomy of Postwar Art in Greece, Part IV: After Abstraction\u201d (Nea Morfi Art Gallery, Athens, 1985), \u201fPeinture Grecque 1968\u20131988\u201d (Commission and Secretariat of the Council of the European Communities, Brussels, 1988), \u201fWeaving. Painting and Tapestry in Greece from 1960 until Today\u201d (Benaki Museum, 2019), \u201f1922\u20132022 Exodus \u2013 Outlet\u201d (former Public Tobacco Factory, Athens, 2023), among others. In 2011 the Academy of Athens honored him for his overall artistic contribution.<\/code><\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1130,"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/1130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dimotikipinakothikikondia.gr\/wp56\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}