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Stelios kalogerakis was born in 1977. He studied Graphic Design and illustration. He was member of the alternative music collective “Nychtobates”. In 1996, he worked with the art group who illustrated the official booklet of the Greek olympic team of Atlanta Olympic Games. He participated in many art and design exhibitions in co-operation with many important artists. In his paintings, he borrows elements of the mass culture, comix and street art to make comments about the modern paranoia of urban life.
He also have written articles and designed comic strips for some of the most important greek newspapers, and magazines. He is the creator of the comic series “Sifis and company” (Magazine Editions). He co-operates with the architect studies office of the designer Dimitris Naoumis.
He has also worked on the promotion of many well-known companies as a logo and advertisment designer. Member of “COCUN urban art” collective he is art directing and managing the "FotoTherapy" contemporary art festival. The last years he works as a freelance designer and illustrator in his office in the island of Crete.
Music is one of his favourite subjects. He has designed promotion material for many concerts, events and festivals.
about pop porn
Pop Porn is a new project by the greek artist, designer and illustrator Stelios Kalogerakis. The project includes 24 black and white paintings (ink on 40x60cm prepared cardboard). Stelios is inspired by the semiotics of the mass culture and he is drawing on the influence of underground comix, street art and contemporary urban art forms. He creates a parallel world based on the modern lifestyle which sometimes reaches the extraordinary kitch substance of pornography. The provocative meanings of Pop Porn paintings explore their significance from the aggressive détournement of the contemporary advertisement practices. Pop Porn is an art project with multiple definitions filtered by ironic and sarcastic conceptual comments. Pop Porn is, after all, a black and white mirror which reflects selective parts of our modern society, an alternative view on our everyday life.
Other projects by Stelios Kalogerakis:
1999: 3Dimensions
1999-Now: OBJECTivity
1999-Now: Pantrifi
2000: UrbanFairytales
2006-2008: Nymphs
2006-now: Leisure Hands
2010: PopPorn
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