Interview: Tania Stefania Katzouraki
Luca Curci talks with Tania Stefania Katzouraki during VENICE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 19TH 2024, at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello in Venice.

Tania Stefania Katzouraki is an artist and researcher who blends visual art, smart lighting, and science into a unique style she calls Fluo-Dadaism. Her works, painted with fluorescent colors, respond to variations in intelligent lighting-shifting in emotion and appearance under cold or warm light to create dynamic, immersive experiences. Through the symbolic figure of Tailed Flower, she explores themes of identity, otherness, and transformation. Her scientific background reflects an artistic vision that merges analytical precision with emotional depth. Her art celebrates difference as excellence, using light and color to illuminate the evolving landscape of human emotion.

Luca Curci – What is the trigger that leads you to paint?
Tania Stefania Katzouraki – To illustrate feelings, emotions, and culture, trust the change of light and color whilst viewing the artwork to heal from the forced violence.

LC – Which artists have somehow influenced your work?
TK – Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Hieronymus Bosch.

LC – Among the several techniques you use, which one do you prefer to practice and which are most compelling for you?
TK – I love to use fluorescent and bright colors. They are aesthetically beautiful and optimistic but at the same time cold and not warm. The candlelight forgives as it is a warm light.

LC – What do you think about art on social media? Are they turning into the new showcases of contemporary art?
TK – I treasure embracing technology and the Social Media world to share my creativity and contemporary messages with a new global audience that is visually fluent. Additionally, I am an artist emerging from receving prizes, such as the Public Choice Award. An art digital platform issued this award, and I received it as my artwork at this art platform attracted thousands of views and loads of comments.

LC – What issues do you intend to deal with in the future?
TK – It is not only about culture, globalization, and nature but the magic of blending them out in a contemporary way with captivating aesthetics whilst passing a message.

LC – In which way the artwork presented in our exhibition is connected with the exhibition’s theme?
TK – “Future landscapes” is the title of the exhibition, and it contradicts the fact that the designs of my artworks are from my past cultural explorations combined in a fantasy landscape due to design or color choice that aims to escape reality. (FantaEscapes like landScapes)

LC – Can you explain something about the artworks you have in our exhibition?
TK – In the darkness, fluorescent paintings glow to enlighten spirits, showing that artworks best match the beauty and healing that we all shall have in hand.
I am not against Dada for being Dada,
I am not against the world to be part of it,
I am not against black for painting pop & fluorescent,
I am not against real for seeking magic,
I am not against still for having a story to paint!

LC – What are your suggestions about our services? Is there something more we can provide to artists?
TK – Everything in the exhibition is well organized. I am proud to present my artwork at your art fair.

LC – What is your idea about ITSLIQUID GROUP?
TK – It is a well-organized international art group with an established presence both in the traditional exhibition type and digital social media world.