Born in Chania, Crete in 1953, he received his first art lessons at the G. Markoulakis design school under the painters V. Kelaidis and A. Petroulakis. The 1970s found him in Athens, at the studios of Y. Vogiatzis and V. Korkovelos. In 1981 he went to study in Paris, but in 1982 he left Paris and settled in Chania permanently. During 1985-1992 he engaged in jewel-making. During the 2000s he engaged with painting without abandoning the three-dimensional, constructional side of his work. He has presented his works in more than ten solo exhibitions and has participated in many group shows. He passed away in 2022.
Yiorgos Avgeros

Solo Exhibitions
2019
Cognitive Wandering •
Zoumboulakis Galleries•
Athens•
2016
Alma Contemporary Art Gallery•
Trikala•
2015
Mylonoyanni Art Gallery•
Chania•
2014
Zoumboulakis Galleries•
Athens•
2013
Third Dimension •
Alma Contemporary Art Gallery•
Trikala•
2009
Mylonoyanni Art Gallery•
Chania•
2007
Tree-forest •
Zoumboulakis Galleries•
Athens•
2003
Constructions •
Tzamia-Krystalla Art Gallery•
Chania•
2002
Constructions •
Zoumboulakis Galleries•
Athens•
1998
Yiorgos Avgeros •
Titanium Gallery (Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery)•
Athens•
1995
Yiorgos Avgeros •
Mylonoyanni Art Gallery•
Chania•
1995
Titanium Gallery (Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery)•
Athens•
1992
Jewellery - Sculpture •
Titanium Gallery (Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery)•
Athens•
2019
2016
2015
2014
2013
2009
2007
2003
2002
1998
1995
1995
1992
Press
Who could have imagined, in the early 1930s, when certain avant garde creators began exploring the possibilities of expression provided by all manner of technical products and creations, through assemblage or collage, that these techniques would reach the point of raising the materials to the level of intellectual creation, or that, through their – deliberate or otherwise – choice and use of emblematic objects, the artists would give a mark of their time. Products and materials of contemporary consumer society, in different configurations, take on an altered shape and meaning and become means of communicating a new created reality.
Thus, in the hands of Yiorgos Avgeros, accessories of contemporary technology – resistors, condensers, transistors, screws, coils, cables, electronic chips – combined with wood, plexiglass, foil, wire, are composed into figures performing an exercise of balance in space, as well as real existential conditions in a constant quest for redefinition and equilibrium.
Using objects whose material and form inspire the concept of sculpture, combined with flexible wire that traces a head or a leg, or even with transparent plexiglass, he creates plastic forms that are ethereal, free of the weight of traditional sculpture, that allow space to penetrate their mass and give a new aesthetic value to the void, which now transforms into an organic element. Thus, useless elements from the field of electronic technology cross over into the field of art and gain recognition through its essence, which is the transformation of dead material into intellectual process.
The human figures of Υiorgos Avgeros are not acrobats, they are seekers of balance. Standing firmly on rods or sheets of metal with automated movements dictated by the elements themselves that comprise the parts of their bodies, they strive to stand in the void and find balance between machine and poetry, between a world that is departing and another that is arriving.
Olga Mentzafou-Polyzou National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum Curator