Ioanna Asmani
ΙΩΑΝΝΑ ΑΣΜΑΝΗ
Ioanna Asmani was born in Athens, in 1929, the twin daughter of iconographer Stephanos Asmanis. She studied art at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Yannis Moralis, Andreas Georgiadis, Yannis Pappas and Pantelis Prevelakis, with honors (1950-1955), and then got her Diploma enabling her to teach History and Humanities as an educator. She worked at Kalpaka School while she worked with her father in several iconography projects. In 1959 she moved to Paris with her husband renowned artist Pavlos (Dionyssopoulos), where she met George Dubufeet, Zak Tati. From 1959 to 1961 she studied literature, and then cinema at I.D.H.E.C., Sorbonne Lettres, Filmologie. For the academic year 1961-1962 she was on a Greek State Scholarship.
She has written very many articles and collaborated with various magazines and publications, including "Odos Panos". In 1976 she published her work of fiction "Butter and Margarine", Kedros.
She has been awarded several prizes for her work Among them, the Prize for Nude, by the Athens School of Fine Arts, 1955; Internationale d' Arte Pittura Contemporanea, Marchano, Italy, 1984; Festival Dei dui Mondi, Spoletto, Italy; International Prize, TODI Mercato Internationale d' Arte Pittura Contemporanea, Italy, 1984; and others.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions. Works of her can be seen at the National Gallery of Greece, the Vorres Museum and several private collections throughout the world.
She has written very many articles and collaborated with various magazines and publications, including "Odos Panos". In 1976 she published her work of fiction "Butter and Margarine", Kedros.
She has been awarded several prizes for her work Among them, the Prize for Nude, by the Athens School of Fine Arts, 1955; Internationale d' Arte Pittura Contemporanea, Marchano, Italy, 1984; Festival Dei dui Mondi, Spoletto, Italy; International Prize, TODI Mercato Internationale d' Arte Pittura Contemporanea, Italy, 1984; and others.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions. Works of her can be seen at the National Gallery of Greece, the Vorres Museum and several private collections throughout the world.
Solo Shows
1975 Plethron Gallery, Athens, 1975; New Forms, Athens, 1977; Panselinos, Thessaloniki, 1978; Society of Pieridon Mousson, Katerini, 1978; Piraeus Art Gallery, 1979; Galerie Zygos, Athens, 1981; New Forms, Athens, 1984; Istron Bay Hotel, Mirambello, Crete, 1989; Theatron I, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1993; Union of Greek Women Scientists, Athens, 1996; Argo Gallery, Athens, 1999.
1975 Plethron Gallery, Athens, 1975; New Forms, Athens, 1977; Panselinos, Thessaloniki, 1978; Society of Pieridon Mousson, Katerini, 1978; Piraeus Art Gallery, 1979; Galerie Zygos, Athens, 1981; New Forms, Athens, 1984; Istron Bay Hotel, Mirambello, Crete, 1989; Theatron I, Nicosia, Cyprus, 1993; Union of Greek Women Scientists, Athens, 1996; Argo Gallery, Athens, 1999.
Ioanna Asmani, Self-Portrait
Ioanna Asmani
Ioanna Asmani
from the catalog of the January 8-22, 1981 exhibition of Ioanna Asmani at Galerie Zygos
by the founder of the gallery Frantzis K. Frantzeskakis.
by the founder of the gallery Frantzis K. Frantzeskakis.
Frantzis Frantzeskakis with the painter Ioanna Asmani.
