Born in Athens in 1975, Marios Pelonis studied painting, art history, digital forms of art, 3D animation and video art installations at Athens School of Fine Arts from 2002 to 2007 under professors Yannis Valavanidis and Mihalis Manousakis, where he graduated with honors . He has exhibited his work in two individual shows and participated in many group exhibitions and various projects in Greece, Bulgaria and Mexico. He lives and works in Athens.

Education
Painting, art history, digital forms of art, 3D animation and video art installations at Athens School of Fine Arts

Exhibitions
2015 “Zoo”, painting
Thission Lofts, Athens, Greece
2014 “People, Colour and Iron 8”, painting
Perama shipyard area, Piraeus, Greece.
2014 Painting
Sophie’s Gallery, Myrina, Lemnos island, Greece
2013 “People, Colour and Iron 7”, painting
Perama shipyard area, Piraeus, Greece.
2012 Painting
Hryssothemis Gallery, Halandri, Athens, Greece.
2012 “People, Colour and Iron 6”, painting
Perama shipyard area, Piraeus, Greece.
2008 Painting
Sophie’s Gallery, Myrina, Lemnos island, Greece
2006 3d Animation
Art and Technology for an International Language, Delphi, Greece
2005 Video installation
Video Art and Digital forms of Art, Athens school of fine Arts, Athens, Greece

Critical reviews
Whether in a little sketch, a composition filled with figures or one of his transcendent landscapes, in the paintings of Marios Pelonis there lives an element always awaiting its recipient: immediacy – a boldness which takes possession of the painted surface and which has always been present in his work. I believe that the art of Marios Pelonis needs no explanation. Each picture unfolds unaided to the viewer, offering itself so openly that it almost speaks aloud to him. This immediacy is so forthright that it lives on after the last brush-stroke. Works of art change over time or with the light that falls on them. Every time one looks one sees them differently. Sometimes they seem in a communicative mood and sometimes not, yet they struggle to win permanence, as if they are growing roots. They could be termed pure art, but they cannot be classified or bundled into groups. Each one has its beginnings in an obscure source, that which has been termed ‘immediacy’, and as such is unforeseeable. Shades of red now paint a sky, now layers in a landscape or a body, or in earlier images stored in the painter’s memory. Golden fields ripple like the surfaces of seas and the seas bloom with meadows of white waves upon their waters. And other works still, those with the golden lines that bring out with their glow the whole chromatic range, spread out in the ordered fashion of the laws of nature. And thus we walk in this created nature, accepting it without question, as we do its real counterpart. And whenever circumstances are favourable it will reveal itself to us.
Photini Stephanidi
for the catalogue of the exhibition of paintings by Marios Pelonis at the Chrysothemis Gallery, October 2012