Lisa Sotilis
Lisa Sotilis is a Greek-Italian sculptor, painter and jewelry maker.
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Sotilis wearing on one of her creations | |
Born | |
Nationality | Greek |
Education | Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, Italy |
Known for | Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Jewelry |
Biography
Native of Athens (Greece), she studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, Italy.
Personal life
Lisa Sotilis is married to Dr. Theodore Vourlas, MD, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, Otolaryngologist.
Selected works
Sculptures
- Icarus - 1970 - patinated and polished bronze
- Selfportrait – 1973 - patinated and polished bronze
- Samothrace – 2003 - patinated bronze - private collection
- Narciso – 2004 - patinated and polished bronze
- Eva sulla Terra - 2004 - patinated and polished bronze
- Hermes - 2005 - 24kt gold-plated bronze - private collection
- Homage to Phidias - 2006 - 24kt gold-plated bronze
- Homage to Praxiteles – 2006 - 24kt gold-plated bronze
- Adonis – 2006 - patinated and polished bronze
- Olympic Athlete – 2006 - 24kt gold-plated bronze
- Poem To Sapho – 2006 - 24kt gold-plated bronze
- Eve – 2006 - patinated and polished bronze
- Adam – 2006 - patinated and polished bronze
- Beautiful Hellen – 2006 - 24kt gold-plated bronze
- Metamorphosis – 2007 - 24kt gold-plated bronze
- Persephone's Metamorphosis – 2007 - 24kt gold-plated bronze
Jewelry
- Afrodite – 1960
- Cleopatra – 1969
- Imperatrice Teodora – 1970
- Omaggio a Caterina II
- Magic Flower of Eden – 1981
- Theodora the Great - 1987
- Nefertiti - 1990
- Byzantine Dance – 1992
- Libellule – 1993
- Homage to Agamemnon - 1994
- Mycenae – 1995
- Homage to Tutankhamun – 1998
- Il Fiore di Baudelaire - 2008
- Costa Smeralda – 2009
Paintings
- Meditazione - circa 1958 dim. 103x73
- Autoritratto metafisico - 1959
- Maschera della guerra – 1960
- Il professionista - 1961
- Moschea blu - 1963 - private collection
- Alla foce dell'Ebro – 1965
- Terra di Agamemnone - 1969
- Afrodite – 1970 - private collection
- Interno con ananas - 1972
- Egle nel giardino degli Dei – 1973
- 146 A.C. Cartagine in fiame – 1980
- Le due atlete – 1980
- Danzatrici orientali – 1982
- Kore – 1986
- Esplosione vitale - 2008
- Sacerdotesse di Dionysus - 2012
- Rapimento d'Europa – 2013
Awards
- Michetti Prize - 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962
- Città di Gallarate Prize - 1959
- Feltre Prize - 1960
- Suzzara Prize - 1961
- San Fedele Prize - 1961
- Ramazzotti Prize - 1961
- Arezzo Prize - 1961
- Ramazzotti Prize - 1961
- Diploma of Honor Corridonia city - 1961
- Gold Medal of the Academy of Carrara - 1961
- Premio Ramazzotti Gold Medal - 1961
- Melegnano Prize - 1962
- Città di San Marino Prize
- Cobiati Prize
- Giorgione-Poussin Prize
- Gold Medal of the President of the Italian Republic
- Cesare Da Sesto Prize
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions 1961 - 1965:
- Armos Gallery, Athens, Greece,1959
- Galleria Russo, Rome, Italy - 1960
- Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan, Italy - 1961
- Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan, Italy - 1962
- Galerie Anna von Becker, Frankfurt, Germany - 1963
- Staadliche Museum, Berlin, Germany - 1964
- Mercurio Gallery, Biella, Italy -1966
- L'Annuciata Gallery, Milan, Italy - 1966
- Galerie Burdeke, Zurich, Switzerland - 1966
- Torbandene Gallery, Trieste, Italy - 1969
- Nechemia Glezer Gallery, Washington DC
1965 -1985 Exclusively for Alexander Iolas:
Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Milan, Athens, Madrid, Rome, Venice, Geneva, Tokyo, Beirut
1985 - Major solo and collective exhibitions:
- Petocchi & Gorevitch Gallery, New York, USA
- Galleria Astrolavos, Athens, Greece
- Galleria Vourkariani, Kea, Greece
- East Carolina University, North Carolina, USA
- Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy
- Galería Iolas-Velasco, Madrid, Spain - 1968
- Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan, Italy
- Museo Civico, Volos, Greece
- Galleria Pananti, Florence, Italy
- Artemisia Art Gallery, Monte Carlo
- Musei Civici di Palazzo d’Avalos, Vasto, Italy
- Biennale di Parma, Italy
- Quadriennale Nazionale d’Arte, Rome, Italy
- Nechemia Glezer Gallery, Washington DC, USA
- Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy
- Biennale Nazionale di Milano, Milan, Italy
- Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
- Musée Municipal, Nevers, France
- Modern Art Gallery "A. Bonzagni" Cento, Italy - 1975
- Galleris d'Arte "San Michele", Brescia, Italy, 1994
- National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia - 2001
- Centro d’arte e cultura, Trieste, Italy - 2002
- The Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa - G.I. Katsigras Museum - 2005
- Museo Fondazione Luciana Matalon - 2008
- 41° Premio Vasto di Arte Contemporanea - Metamorfosi del fantastico - 2008
- Galleria Nazionale, Urbino, Italy - 2009, produced by Pierre Kaloussian Velissiotis
- Casa Raffaello Sanzio, Urbino, Italy - 2009 produced by Pierre Kaloussian Velissiotis
- Teatro Rossini, Pesaro, Italy - 2009, produced and curated by Pierre Kaloussian Velissiotis
- The "Ermoupolia 2010" and the Art Gallery of Cyclades, Syros, Greece - 2010, conceived and produced by Pierre Kaloussian Velissiotis
- Spazio Tadini, Milan, Italy - 2012, Curated by Pierre Kaloussian Velissiotis and Melina Scalse
- Museo Fornace Pagliero in Castellamonte Spineto, Italy - 2012
- Serres, Greece - 2013
- The Archaeological Museum of Serres, Greece - 2013, produced and curated by Pierre Kaloussian Velissiotis
- Giorgio de Chirico – L’Enigma di Edipo with Lisa Sotilis creations, Palazzo Pisani, Lonigo 2014-2015
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