Dimitris Mytaras

Dimitris Mytaras was born in 1934 in Chalcis. From 1953 till 1957, Mytaras studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts under Yiannis Moralis and Spyros Papaloukas. Leaving Greece in 1961, he studied stage design at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris with Labicse and Jean-Louis Barrault on a three-year scholarship.

Later in 1966, he returned to Athens, where during the years from 1961 to 1966 he participated in the São Paulo Art Biennial and the Alexandria Biennial. Upon his return to Athens, he held the retrospective “Study on a Mirror” at the Merlin Gallery. At that point, while under heavy influence from abstraction, he stated that “In the end my deepest concern is with the idea of changing form” in regards to his show.

From 1964 till 1972, he directed the Interior Decoration Workshop of the Athens Technological Institute. Beginning in 1975, he taught at the Painting Workshop of the Athens School of Fine Arts. Mytaras participated in more than 30 international group shows, including the 1972 Venice Biennale. He was also a renowned scenic designer and worked for major Greek theaters, including the National Theatre of Greece and the National Theatre of Northern Greece.