About

Rania Rangou was born in Athens, Greece in 1970. She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, Greece (1989-1994) and at the School of Fine Arts in Madrid, Spain (1994-1995). During 1998-1999, she studied Video Art at New School and Music & Sound Techniques at the School of Visual Arts in New York, U.S.A. She has presented her work in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her works are to be found in private and public collections, including the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Rethymnon Museum of Contemporary Art and Corfu Heritage Foundation . She lives and works in Athens.

Within a spirit of soft tension and a sense of vertigo, where irony and sometimes sarcasm have a predominant position, Rania Rangou’s works are trying to upset established communication habits. Altering the form of figures, seeking for a conceptual and morphological challenge, by overturning the usual structure of a painting, Rania Rangou touches on the very sensitive issue of information and communication in our times.
Traditional painting idioms are set free and start moving with the times thanks to the painter’s willingness and capacity to transform everyday language in so far as its syntax, its grammar and therefore its conceptual known structure are concerned, and the important thing here is that this has been done through painting.

This is a portfolio with a small selection of artwork by Rania Rangou from about  2007 and up to now. For more you can visit http://raniarangou.blogspot.gr