SpirosGelekasArt

Spiros Gelekas is a professional painter-artist, member of Corfu Art Gallery, Member of The International Artists Exchange Association (IAE) exclusively represented by MO2art (micro-oxygenated art) in China. Specializing in fantasy art, modern art and abstract. He was born and raised in Corfu, Greece where he lives until today.Principal inspiration - Artists are Salvador Dali and Roger Dean. Salvador Dali gives realism within the sphere of surrealism and Roger Dean uses a supreme technique for the creation of a world which is similar to his.
Strongly influenced by surrealism and fantasy art, Gelekas presented his first solo exhibition, “Fantasy Landscapes,” in the foyer of the Municipal Theatre of Corfu in 2016. Between 2017-2019 he completed a large volume of work and exhibited in China, with his works hanging alongside originals by Dali and Picasso. In 2018 he held the solo exhibition was “Imaginations through a Painted Canvas (Oct-Nov 2018) in the Corfu Art Gallery; followed by the charity drive “Art brings Smiles” at The Attic Gallery in early 2019.
The same year he began his participation in Fantasmagoria in Thessaloniki as well as the representation of Greece in the framework of Montenegrin chairmanship over Adriatic-Ionian Initiative, International Art Colony, with the participation of one representative of each member state of Adriatic-Ionian Region.
At the initiative of the painter he meets for the first time in Greece the mythical universe of J. R. R. Tolkien, author of "Lord of the Rings" of "The Hobbit" and Silmarillon. An exhibition-tribute to Professor Tolkien and the Middle-earth under the auspices of the Greek Association of Tolkien Friends - The Prancing Pony, in collaboration with the Association of FantastiCon, the Hellenic American Union and the Hellenic American College (HAEC). The exhibition has been very successful in Thessaloniki and Athens, as it will continue in other cities of Greece and Europe with scheduled individual appearances for 2019-2021.
At the same time working on the cover of the new book on echoes of ancient Greek literature in Tolkien's work translating previous scholarship into Modern Greek for the first time.
Since 2015 he has completed a large collection of works (900+) where they are housed in the Corfu Art Gallery, the Mavroudis Olive Museum (Corfu), i-clubM02art (China) and private collections of renowned musicians, photographers, collectors, athletes and theatrical productions in Greece, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Montenegro, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, America and Asia.
Awards:
• 2014: Top ten in Faber Castell's international competition "Neon Skyline"
• 2016: First place "Fantasy Theme"
• 2016: Second place "Steampunk Theme"
• 2018: The Global Art Awards 2018 nominated
• 2019: Finalist at the Pébéo Mixed Media Art Prize international competition
• 2022: Honorary praise from the Μunicipality of southern Corfu

Group Exhibitions:
• 2002: "Meliteia 2002", Corfu, Greece
• 2018: “Foshan Art Fair”, Foshan, China
• 2018: “The Prosperous” with Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, Dongxiang, China
• 2019: “International Art Colony”, Budva, Montenegro
• 2019: “Show me What You Got #1” Thessaloniki
• 2019: “Kaleidoscope” The Attic Gallery, Corfu
• 2019 Pébéo Mixed Media Art Prize and Exhibition Menier Gallery, London
• 2020: “Our World”, China
• 2021: "International Watercolor Art Exhibition" Art Museum Guangzhou, China
• 2021: Oxonmoot Online 2021 Oxford, UK

Solo Exhibitions:
• 2016: “Fantasy Landscapes” Municipality Theater of Corfu - Greece
• 2017: “Falling Into Fantasy” Sentido Apollo Palace Hotel – Corfu, Greece
• 2017: “Dreams in the Ocean” Puppet – Corfu, Greece
• 2018"“Surrealism” with Salvador Dali – Beijing, China
• 2018: “Cross-Century Surrealist Exhibition, Kunming Station” with Dali,Kunming, China
• 2018: “Imaginations through a painted canvas” - Corfu Art Gallery
• 2019: “Art Creates Smiles” The Attic Gallery, Corfu.
• 2019: “Sacred Worlds” “Fantasmagoria 2019”, Thessaloniki
• 2019: “Tales from Middle-Earth” Govendarou Art Gallery, Thessaloniki
• 2019: “Tales from Middle-Earth” Fantasticon, Hellenic American College, Athens
• 2019: “Tales from Middle-Earth” Kaveh Kanes, Larissa
• 2019: “Tales from Middle-Earth” Town Hall, Thebes
• 2021 "Art meets Fantasy" Angsana, Corfu, Greece