I make my own Avatars
Based on the two work on show— Jnana Mudra and Minoan Goddess
As Emilia Tsekoura describes it, “we shall analyze the works, studying the different figures-avatars I made myself as an expression of love to two pursuits that are therapeutic for me: healing yoga and apitherapy. The figures-avatars I designed are a kind of an art of returning to nature, meshing as it does the natural forms with myths of the earth and heaven (primordial dream); in another way, it is a return to hyper-nature (surrealism), the one we keep building with our desires, the one we impose on everyday reality.”
The time has come to design our own avatars — figures inspired by a special love for nature, a cartoon figure or an animal, real or fictional, always with the aim of getting to know our self and the way we evolve.
Emilia Tsekoura
Born in Athens, Emilia Tsekoura studied at the Art Communication & Learning team in Athens (1978-80), at the Boston Museum’s School of Fine Arts (1980-84) and at the same time at Tufts University, graduating with a Bachelor in Arts & Sciences.
Between 1988 and 2013, Emilia taught at the Athens College using differentiation teaching, art therapy and the method of Harvard University’s Project Zero (TFU, Visual Thinking). To this day she has had several solo shows in Greece and the US and has participated in numerous group exhibitions.
She is motivated by concepts originating from her own nature and expressed in autobiographical and expressionist ways: woman, Goddess/Idol, birth, genesis, the ovoid, rebirth. The philosophy of constant change in life, nature and art is always the key principle behind her every work.
One element in her art is symbolism and the translation of icons into archetypes. The egg, the sphere, the round, the zero or “nothing” and their reflections, the heart, the spiral, the geometries of nature and many other familiar symbols and concepts appear in various guises, media and materials throughout her artistic course.
She works in Athens and teaches at the art workshops of Fougaro in Nafplio since 2013.
