The artist Katerina Charou, daughter of the well-known Kytherian painter and engraver Manolis Charou, is currently exhibiting her work «Sea» at Louvre, in the Cycladic Art Hall, together with teachers and young artists, graduates of the Paris School of Fine Arts. It is a digital work in Thassos marble, inspired by the sea of Kythera.
Who is Katerina Harou
The beautiful girl with the romantic look came into the world 32 years ago. She never hid in the shadow of her famous father's stature, nor was she frightened by the light his art emitted. That's because Katerina is a self-aware creature, fully aware of how she wants to go through life.
«I'm not afraid of comparison with my father. I'm prepared for what will happen, name it, it doesn't go unnoticed. I see it more as a challenge,» she said in an earlier interview, revealing that her biggest fear is turning into something mediocre.
On the occasion of her first exhibition at the Louvre, back in 2017, the Elisa Synadinou he wrote, at the time, in athensvoice.gr, about a young woman with a modern street style, «sensitive yet whirlwind, agile and versatile both creatively and technically, she uses her stimuli to create visual stories, mix media with photography, drawing, printing».
She describes herself as follows:
«I use photography quite a lot as a medium, as a first stage; I don't consider myself a photographer by any means, but photography is a very big part of my work. Later I focused on new techniques, with new industrial materials that we can use in art, such as latex, wrinkle, plexiglass-which is the glass of our time.
One of my obsessions is a plant called Immortatus. It's a symbol I keep coming back to. At first I was intrigued by it because I found it wild, beautiful, imposing and paradoxical. Later I learned that it is an unevolved plant, that it should not normally have survived and existed among us. This intrigued me even more. For me it has become a reference point.
I paint because I think and don't think at the same time. Because I empty, I decompress, it makes me happy. It's a great happiness (and a great cliché) to have made a hobby into a profession.
Of course, it's very, very difficult to be sustained entirely by the visual arts. You need to do other jobs on the side to make a living. It's not impossible, it just takes a lot of
work. Be a worker. And believe it very much. If you don't insist, you won't make it. It must be a very conscious decision.
In this art you are constantly developing your mind. You come face to face with yourself and your thoughts. You constantly set new goals that you have to pass.
at some point, you have to fail. It's a difficult process from which you come out a winner.».
