Zacharias Papantoniou (1978) was born in Athens. He studied Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He continued his studies with a Fulbright Scholarship at Massart in Boston, from where he received his MFA degree. He has had three solo shows in Athens and participated in several group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

Adopting color’s richness and texture as a vehicle, Papantoniou uses his intuition in tandem with an extremely analytical process to create poetic works with emotional and intellectual density. The image is guided by a strong formal search that aspires to retrieve and redefine its own meaning. Each painting is “orchestrated” in layers through superposed arrangements, crossings and readjustments while avoiding any superficial resolutions. It is a process that relies heavily on spontaneous gesture and intuition as well as on precise drawing and reflection.