Takis Mayrotas

Takis Mavrotas was born in Athens in 1959. He graduated from Panteion University, Department of Social Sciences, where he completed his doctoral dissertation on "The Body of Love and Death in Modern Greek Painting." He worked in the office of Professor G. P. Savvidis and, after 1988, at the Pierides Cultural Foundation, as well as at the Lambrakis Press Organization as an art editor. He is the Director of the Visual Arts Program at the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation. He has served as the director of the Pierides Foundation and as a board member of the National Gallery, the Hellenic Festival, the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, the National Sponsorship Committee of the Ministry of Culture, and the Association of Greek Art Critics (A.I.CA.). He has curated numerous solo and group exhibitions: "Aspects of a Great Greece" by Enzo Crea at the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, 1987, "Review of a Collection of the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation" at the National Gallery, 1988, "Retrospective Exhibition of Dimitris Mytaras" at the Pierides Gallery, 1989, "Medieval Cypriot Ceramics 13th-16th Century" at the House of Cyprus, Athens, 1990, and subsequently at the Old Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and the Toko Mansion-12th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, "Dimitris Mytaras - Christos Karas" at Metropolis Art Galleries, New York, 1991, "Treasures of Ancient Cypriot Art" at the House of Cyprus, 1991, "V. Fryssiras Collection" at the Pierides Gallery and the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 1991, "New Contemporary Greek Creators" at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 1992, "V. Fryssiras Collection" at the Neoria of Chania, 1993, "Clay and Plastic Creation" at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 1993, and subsequently at the Pierides Gallery, the Municipal Arts Center of Nicosia, and the Basilica of Saint Francis of Rethymno, 1994, "Contemporary Greek Painting - V. Fryssiras Collection" in Thessaloniki, 1994, "Contemporary Cypriot Art - Bank of Cyprus", HELEXPO Thessaloniki, 1994, "Cyprus - 9000 Years of Civilization" at the EEC Summit in Corfu, 1994, "Cyprus - 9000 Years of Civilization" at the Hellenic Parliament, 1996, "Post-War Avant-Garde in Greece" at the Municipal Gallery of Rhodes, 1996, "Cypriot Voyage" at the Mamidakis Foundation, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, 1996, "Dimitris Sakellion" at the Pierides Gallery, 1998, "The Anthropocentric Character in the Painting of Alekos Fassianos", at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 1998, "Panagiotis Tanimanidis" at the Pierides Gallery, 1999, "Cypriot Antiquities from the Museum of the Pierides Foundation", at the Pierides Gallery, 1999, "Yiannis Kynigopoulos Collection", in Syros, 1999, "Takis - Chryssa" at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 2000, "Yiannis Adamakos" at the Pierides Gallery, 2000, "Collection of the Center for Contemporary Visual Creation of Rethymno", at the Pierides Gallery, 2000, "Giorgos Xenos" at the Pierides Gallery, 2001, "Ancient Cypriot Art", at the Pierides Museum, in Athinais, 2001, "Olympism and Art - Collection of the Olympic Museum of Lausanne", at Athinais, 2002, "Pictorial and Architectural Space - Fassianos - Papaioannou" at Athinais, 2003, "The Legacy of Apollo" at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 2003, "Steps of Life" by Christina Sarantopoulou at the Pierides Gallery, 2003, "Our Neighbors" at Athinais, 2004, "Columns and Piers" at the European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 2005, "With the Lens Focused on the Cyclades" at the Museum of Cycladic Art, 2005, among others.