On Tuesday the 1st of March at the art shop of the Art Gallery "ASTROLAVOS artlife" the opening of an exhibition of artistic papier-mache constructions by Yota Kalavritinou will take place.

The artist tells about her work: "Since 2000 I'm experimenting in papier mache technique. The idea of recycling and the use of materials that are friendly to human and to environment, my care for animals and their continuous watching after my three old daughters admonition, turned me to the construction of small animals about the size of a real cat.
Loving and expressive shapes with a look that watches everything are materialized from newspaper, cardboards even wire. They are painted with acrylics or tempera and varnish. I realized the procedure of their construction as a charming creations game, where the wastepaper takes the form of an animal-sculpture with personality"

Duration of exhibition: until 26th of March.

Yota Kalavritinou
Kalavritinou was born in 1963 in Sparta. She graduated from the Architecture School in 1987. She had been working at the architectural office of Kyriakos Krokos from 1985 to 1990. From 1990 to 2000 she collaborated with the architect Giorgos Makris (Architecture award of 2000 from the Hellenic Institute of Architecture for the best residence in Greece from 1993 to 1998). She had worked on architectural studies and the construction of public and private projects and she had also designed furniture and things of inner space. She is interested in creation of small contraction.
She studied at the studio of dance and exercise "Barre-au-sol" under Katerina Iakovidou and since 1995 she is taking part to the annual seminars of Alain Astie. She is teaching barre-a-terre since 2002.