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Peter Marifoglou

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Biography


* 1954 New York City
Roots: Aeolian-Byzantine Greeks from Constantinople 

 

NEW YORK CITY (1954-1979)


EDUCATION:

1967-1970          ART & DESIGN High School. Main Focus: Architecture

                            Lectures by WARHOL, SALVATOR DALI

1970-1974           SCHOOL of VISUAL ARTS  - B.F.A. - Film Writer-Director

                            Professor: JUD YALKUT (experimental film)

                            Lectures by NAM JUNE PAIK, MEKAS, VANDERBEEK, BRAKHAGE,

                            MARKOPOULOS, E.KAZAN, A.HITCHCOCK, A.WARHOL and others

1970-1974           SCHOOL of VISUAL ARTS  - Certificate – Photography

                            Lectures by D. MICHALS, R.MAPPLETHORPE, D. ARBUS and others

                            Visited Studios: WARHOL, ROY LICHTENSTEIN, J.POLLOCK and others.

 

FILM (selection): 

1970                     Short film PANO’S  SYMPHONY - Writer, Director,Actor, Music composer

1971                     Short film THE ZOO – Cameraman, the film was bought by Walter Reed Theater New York

                             and projected together as short film with P. BOGDANOVIC’s PAPER MOON

1972                     THE ART STUDENT - ANDY WARHOL Produktion – Directed by ALFONSO CIANCARELLI

                            Main role together with Warhol’s Super Star TAYLOR MEAD and assistant cameraman

1972                    MICHELANGELO, directed by Robert Averick - Cameraman

                          THE OBOE- directed by Robert Averick- Cameraman.

                             Both films were distributed in U.S. Art and Music schools. 

1974                    IT NEVER REALLY SNOWS IN THE SUMMERTIME

                          Writer/Director/constructed all Sets and objects. 90 min. 

                            children's film for T.V..

 1974                    THE ASSASSIN –Cameraman

                            TEXAS, STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL awarded as best student film                                                                                                                                 

1975                      SESAME STREET  - cameraman, in children’s  Educational TV program. 

1969-1974           Writer of own Theater Plays, Experimantal Plays and Performances

 

PHOTOGRAPHY:

1968 - 1974             Working as Set- Photographer for Underground Soft Sex films produced by ANDY WARHOL. 

 

 

GREECE, FRANCE  (1979-81)

1979                       BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE PARIS - Director J.C.LEMAGNY comments:

                                `I place you high among the new European photographers’.

1979                          Co-Founder of EDUCATIONAL YOUTH FILM CENTER: “Red Balloon“, Sponsored by UNESCO,

                               Ford F, International Film Centers, Foreign Embassies, National Film Center of Greece etc.

1981                          MOUNT ATHOS - Three month’s stay in Vatopedi Hermits Cabin, Observing and Photographing

                                the life of monks

1981                         COMMOTINI - Lives with Gypsy community

1981                         Photography-book SECONDS published by Contemporary Graphic Arts Ltd, Thessaloniki

                                100 pages containing over 200 works

 
SOLO EXHIBITION:

1980                    
- PHOTOCIRCLE – Thessaloniki


- DIAGONIOS Gallery, Thessaloniki

-CHAGALL MUSEUM Nice - Invitation from director Mr. PIERRE PROVOYEUR.

  Four month stay, Exhibition in private quarters of the director

- GALERIE LE STENOPE, Nice

- MUSEE D´ART MODERNE ET D´ART CONTEMPORAIN, Nice

  10 works enter Permanent Collection


1981                     
- BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE PARIS, 11 works enter collection


 

 

CORSICA (1981-1982)

1981                         CARGÈSE - 13 month stay at Historic Greek-Byzantine Village, 'Cargése',

   photographing and filming the life in the village

1981                        La MARGE D´EUX - Honorary member of Art Committee

1981                        F.R. 3-T.V. - Wrote lyrics for punk group ERIK

                                 SUICIDE - Composes two times 20 minute film music

 

1981                        Teaching of Visual Asthetics to young people, Centre Culturel Una Nolta, Bastia

1982                        MINISTRY of CULTURE  & Gallery La Marge D´eux Invitation to photograph the island

 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1981                        - La Marge D`eux Galerie, Ajaccio

                  - Maison de Junues, Bastia

                  - Centre Culturel Una Nolta, Bastia Works with young people in photography

 

 

GERMANY Düsseldorf since 1984

 

FILM

1984-1994               L.E.R.M. FILM Company, Poststr. 3 Düsseldorf  

                                  Forth member of independent film production company. 

                                  Works together in 17 film productions for T.V. and cinema.

Outstanding Films:

1984                         SCHAUSPIELEN with BRUNO GANZ

1988                          ADOLF GRIMME PRIZE: Schöne Poesie ist Krampf, with FRANK ZAPPA

1988                          MAX OPHÜLS PRIZE for film Kopffeuer

1999                           ADOLF GRIMME PRIZE for the movie Echo Der Arbeit

1985 - 1993               IFIGENIA – Author-Director of Theater-Projects for youth with migration background

                                     at Leibniz- Montessori Gymnasium Düsseldorf, congratulations from the Greek Minister

                                   of Culture, MELINA MERCOURI, for the work.



PHOTOGRAPHY

1987                          AGAINST DRUGS -  Photograph awarded, made into campaign poster

                                   against drug use. (DIAKONI)

1987                          Photographs Factory workers at MANNESMAN - DANLABENZ NRW

1988                         Berufsverbands Bildender Künstler - Düsseldorf Group exposition

1989                         International Fotomanifestatie , Amsterdam

1990                         WBZ- Group Exhibition - Kunst Verein, Arnsberg - Personal Exhibition of Cargèse photos


1991                         Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf - One-Man-Exhibition. For the first time in Düsseldorf Museum,

                                  two photographs were stolen

1991                         Kunst Verein, Heidelberg - ''SECONDS'' book

1991                           VHS - Düsseldorf - Portraits from Mannesmann and Daimler Benz Factory workers

2005                         7th INTERNATIONALE FOTOTAGE Mannheim –

    Contemporary American - German Photography (Mannheim - Germany) 

2010                         Benaki Museum, Athens - Exhibition of Cargése works - 45 photographs in collection

2010                        National Photographic Center of Greece, Athens, 20 photographs in collection

2010                        Museum Of Photography, Thessaloniki, 20 photos of Cargése in collection

2010                        Frankfurter Hof Mainz - Photo exhibition from Cargèse and Portraits from Factory workers

2015                          Musée d´Art Moderne et d´Art Contemporain, Nice

    Exhibition of 11 works  from collection  & Book

2015                           Clara Maria Sels Gallery - Düsseldorf. Group show. 

 

 


OTHER ACTIVITIES

1989                         PAIDEIA (USA-Rhodes) – Voted as Head for GREEK CULTURAL INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES, 

                                  later known as ''DIASPORA''

2006                         Interviewed as visual artist for NATIONAL RADIO MUNICH

2006                         Interviewed for WDR COLOGNE concerning the existence of the Byzantine

                           Village of Cargese in Corsica


2007                         European Greek Newspaper TAXIDROMOS article and interview  

2008                           Writes fantasy book THE END

                                    A little girl in a futuristic 3d dimension discovers someone called, Mr. God

2009 - 10                   Charles Greene - Ex-Advertising Agency GRAY founder supports the Mannheim Project

2010                         Revisits Cargese helping as priest during the easter holidays

2010                         KAVAFI –Visual Conception for Mr. Karozas musical adaptation of Kavafi's poems,

                                  Poetry read by Bruno Ganz, at The Vienna Philharmonic Hall. World Tour Follows.

 
              

Exhibitions - Photographs - Publications in Collections

 

GERMANY

·       Folkwank Museum, Essen

·       Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf

·       Heidelberg University Library

·       Berufsverbands Bildender Künstler

·       WBZ

·       Kunst Verein, Arnsberg

·       Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum, Mannheim

·       Stadtmuseum, Munich

·       Kunst Verein, Heidelberg

·       Frankfurter Halle Mainz

·       BBK - Düsseldorf

·       7th INTERNATIONALE FOTOTAGE - Contemporary American –

German Photography (Mannheim - Germany)

 

CORSICA

·       Maison de Junues, Bastia

·       Centre Culturel Una Nolta, Bastia

·       La Marge D`eux Galerie, Ajaccio

 

FRANCE

·       Nationale Bibliotheque, Paris

·       Musée dÁrt Moderne et dÁrt Contemporair, Nice

·       La Marge Galerie, Nice

 

GREECE

·       Benaki Museum, Athens

·       National Photographic Center of Greece, Athens

·       “PHOTOCIRCLE” - Thessaloniki

·       Museum Of Photography, Thessaloniki

·       Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

·       University of Architecture, Thessaloniki

·       Diagonios Gallery, Thessaloniki

 

NETHERLANDS - Amsterdam

·       International Fotomanifestatie

 

 

Photographs in Private Collections of Known Personalities (1968-85)

 

A. Warhol - M. Chagall - R. Mapplethorpe - L.Clerque- J. Cassavetes - E. Kazan –

A. Hitchcock  
O.Preminger - P. Bagdanovic - D. Niven - M. Taylor - B. Ganz –

P. Smith - L. Reed - F. Zappa - B. Dylan  
H. Miller - A. Ginsberg - Queen of Holland –

Ex-King of Greece Constantine - Soraya of Persia - etc.

 


 

 


 

 

 


 



 

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