DIMITRIS RENTOUMIS

Dates of residency: January till March 2020
Born:  1980
Nationality: Greek
Lives and works: Athens, Greece
Education: 
2014 MFA  Fine Arts, AKV/St.Joost-Master Institute
2011 Painting, Athens School of Fine Arts
Selected shows:
2018  Frozen Education, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel
2017  Night Shifts - Day Dreams, Kaus Australis, Rotterdam
2017  Open studios, Van Eyck, Maastricht
2016  The materiality of the invisible #1, Van Eyck, Maastricht

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THE ARTIST
Dimitris Rentoumis has participated in shows and residencies in Greece, the Netherlands and abroad, among them Jan van Eyck Academie in 2016-2017 and Onassis AiR Exchange Residency in 2019-2020. In his practice, he examines surface and depth, materiality, and temporary appearances. His work encompasses drawings, sculpture, digital projections, and writing. He is one of the initiators and co-organizers of the ongoing project and series of workshops ‘The text of Appearances’ that researches the use of text in visual arts in collaboration with the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has also worked as a drawing instructor and art educator for adults and children. Recently, he has been exploring the integration of forms of narrativity in studio-based processes as a part of his research in Beirut Art Residency, supported by the Onassis Foundation.

THE RESIDENCY
The fictional texts of Dimitris Rentoumis result from the symbiosis of experimental writing with his studio practice. Elliptical and imaginative transcriptions of his work as a visual artist become parallel narratives that often find a manifestation in the form of public readings. For his residency at BAR, Dimitris focused on writing and developed a new text while he gave a series of workshops and talks at The Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) as well as at the American University of Beirut (AUB).

 

Dimitris Rentoumis’s residency is supported by Onassis AiR: an (inter)national artistic research residency program of the Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, within the scope of the Onassis Future initiative.