Chrissa Romanos was born in Athens in 1931 and was one of the most important Greek painters of her generation.
She lived in Paris for 20 years (1961-1081) where she met with her husband, Nikos Kessanlis, and met with very important people connected with art.
In the 1950s Chryssa was a journalist "Pireus Chronicle" and "Embros" and at the same time, she enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Athens. She was a student of Y. Moralis and A. Georgiades. She exhibited her paintings in 1968 at the "Summer Salon of Young Artists" winning one of the 3 prizes. Two years later she exhibited at the "Zygos Gallery".
The fascinating voyages of Chryssa started in 1961 in Paris, with a scholarship from the Greek government. In the years that followed she painted "Mythous" which she created by spilling blue paint on a white background. Later she will try the technic of collage works of icons of newspapers and magazines, advertisements with consumer products, and installing political and social reputation.
In 1968, she started a series of constructions "Mecano" inspired by children, she also drew "Maps and Labyrinths".
In 1960, she will return to her fond themes, using decolage, a method of the "nouveaux realists" works on gelatine and the transparence of plexiglass.
The interest of Chryssa for maps, travels and labyrinths are like the Paris revolt of the 1960s.and also the "Phycogeographical Maps" of Paris.
Chryssa managed to make her own lexicology and show her work in Greece and abroad even much better than her male coworkers.
She died on 1st April 2006.
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