"Bridge", 1992
By Yannis Kottis (1949)
Mixed technique on canvas, 161Χ129 cm.
Inv. No.: P-60

Born at Kokkoni (Corinth), Yannis Kottis studied at the Athenian Technological Institute (1967-1970) and at the School of Fine Arts (1974-1979) with Yannis Moralis and Nicos Nicolaou.  With a scholarship he continued his studies at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris (1980-1983), where he presented his first one-man exhibition too (1981).  He has shown his work in a series of solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad and has participated in the Biennales of Alexandria and Young Artists, in Cannes, as well as at the First Contemporary Art Cruise.  Purely expressionist, his work contains elements of the naive.  He lives and works in Paris.

P.D.Cangelaris, Reflections upon Greek Contemporary Painting, The Cangelaris Collection, vol.2, Athens 1999