Marie Thérèse Tsalapatanis

Marie Thérèse Tsalapatanis is a French artist, born in 1950. She has had a passion for drawing since her childhood, she ends up doing a training in decorative arts at the Louvre school.

She moves from painting to sculpture, with Parisian studios including the Beaux Arts. She begins working with clay, plaster and then wax, and ends up creating sculptures in bronze.

Initially she works with still life models and then she creates with the help of her memory and her favorite theme is human figures. Pure forms, her nudes and portraits are marked with a certain spirituality, which emanates from raw material, polished surfaces or sharp edges.

Entering Marie Thérèse Tsalapatanis's universe, means going back to the sources of sculptures: silent, crooked and rolled up forms on themselves, and they look at you with a drowning look, their erect heads seem to emerge from an inner dream heading towards a reality, which still isn't precise and agonizing at the same time.

Nominated at the Académie des Beaux arts in Paris, Marie Thérèse Tsalapatanis received several awards, exhibited during several fairs as guest of honor in prestigious areas like the Institut de France, the roof of the Grande Arche at La défense during a tribute to Rodin, the Chapu Museum in Mée-sur-seine, galleries around Paris and other regions in France. She created several gigantic sculptures, including the famous Don Quichotte.