Museum Alex Mylona

Όλοι εδώ. 50 χρόνια Δημοκρατία

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:16:37 +0000

All here! 50 years of Democracy dimitra.samsaki Thu, 01/11/2024 - 16:48

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Thu, 01/18/2024 - 11:00

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Sun, 04/14/2024 - 19:00

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Exhibition “All here! 50 years of Democracy”

MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona (5, Agion Asomaton Square Μουσείο Thissio, Athens)

18 January – 14 April, 2024

Opening: Thursday 18 January 2024, 21:00

Stone, wire, wood, plaster and red carnations frame a slogan from the student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic in November 1973; the same slogan is also the title of the historical exhibition “All here! 50 years of Democracy” organised by MOMus to celebrate 50 years since the restoration of Democracy in Greece, which takes place at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in Athens, from 18 January to 14 April 2024.

The exhibition is under the patronage of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms. Katerina Sakellaropoulou.

The exhibition “All here! 50 years of Democracy” brings together four of the most important visual artists from the post war period -Vlassis Caniaris, Dimitris Alithinos Vasso Katraki and A. Tassos- whose works of art were presented in exhibitions during the junta period or immediately after, as symbols of resistance and opposition, hope and democracy. The four visual artists were “present” with their work as an artistic expression, as a “political” position and attitude, consciously and unmediated in one of the darkest periods of Greek history.

A work by contemporary visual artist Yiannis Pappas, who lives and works in Berlin, acts as the “bridge” connecting the past with the present.

The dictatorship of 21 April 1967 was the tragic conclusion of the anomaly and dysfunctionality of Greek politics in the mid-1960s. Following an “informal” agreement most Greek artists choose to abstain from all cultural events, thus expressing their opposition to the junta and denying any legitimisation to the regime. Some artists became active members of anti-dictatorial organisations, some fled the country, others were arrested and exiled, while others still chose silence, isolating themselves in their studios. But very few remained politically indifferent to the grim reality they were experiencing, in a world already shaken by the Vietnam War, the assassination of Che Guevara, and the revolutionary fervour of the Parisian barricades of May ‘68. When abstention seemed to be going nowhere and started losing its momentum, the artists regrouped and reconsidered their stance.

The solo exhibition (1969) of Vlassis Caniaris at the New Gallery was one of the first shows that symbolically broke the artists’ “silence”. His compositions with plaster, barbed wire and red carnations –symbolizing the hopeful struggle for victory– lend themselves to an essentially political reading, alluding to the illiberal nature, the tortures, brutality and cruelty of the Colonel’s junta.

Dimitris Alithinos held two, now considered “historic” exhibitions in 1972 and 1973 at the small Studio 47 Theatre (organized by Desmos Art Gallery) and at the Ora Cultural Centre respectively. The works presented –such as the interrogation room, the cage with the skull and the living canary, the “crucified” red figure, as well as the “happening” with the white boxes and the living human parts– were not just breaking new ground for Greek art, but also raised critical questions about the role of artists and artworks especially during savage and illiberal times, seeking the direct involvement, participation and reaction of the viewer.

Vasso Katraki was one of the first to be arrested by the military regime, exiled to the small island of Gyaros. In the black ink of the works she created after her return from exile, she illustrates, with unparalleled expressive intensity and sensitivity, individual and collective emotions and experiences. Her exhibition at the Ora Cultural Centre (1972) brings together her compositions featuring maimed bodies, religious female figures (Platyteres) and her tragic image of Antigone preparing to fulfil her duty.

The exhibitions of Caniaris, Alithinos and Katraki, held amidst informers and policemen and under the looming threat of bans and persecution, attracted an astonishingly large number of visitors, whose mere presence substituted, in a way, for forbidden political activity.

The A. Tassos’ woodcuts from 1967-1974, exhibited after the restoration of democracy at the National Gallery (1975), capture pain and heroism, resistance and opposition, serving as powerful allegories, imposing in their epic, monumental style. The slaves, the bodies warped by barbed wire and the Tyrannicides converse with Che Guevara, contemporary fighters and the armed archangels at the gate of the Polytechnic.

EVERY ONE WAS there then, and EVERY ONE IS HERE still.

Curated by: Yannis Bolis, Art Historian, Head of Department of Contemporary Sculpture, MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona

Artworks’ loans by: A. Tassos Foundation, Alpha Bank Art Collection, Dimitris Alithinos, Christina Moustakli, Yiannis Pappas, Marianna Katraki’s family, Caniaris’ family

The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue with texts by historians, art historians and visual artists: Manos Avgeridis, Yannis Bolis, Kostas Christopoulos, Domna Gounari, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, Vangelis Karamanolakis, Elena Kechagia, Kostas Kostis, Thouli Misirloglou, Spyros Moschonas, Irene Orati, Yiannis Pappas

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Ράνια Εμμανουηλίδου. Κάτω από το ραντάρ

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:46:37 +0000

Rania Emmanouilidou. Underneath the radar dimitra.samsaki Wed, 11/06/2024 - 12:53

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Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 11/14/2024 - 20:00

End Date

Sun, 01/26/2025 - 20:00

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Museum Alex Mylona

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Opening: Thursday 14 November 2024, 20:00

Hybrid creatures and femininities that inhabit special worlds and claim freedom of existence, representatives of successive generations that make up the modern world "conquer" MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona, in the exhibition of Rania Emmanouilidou and... are moving "Underneath the radar".

Rania Emmanouilidou, as Generation X, watches the cultural reality and social identity as it takes shape every day. The exhibition "Underneath the Radar" highlights a series of themes that have run through the artist's work for more than twenty years: issues of gender and identity, politics and ecology, always centered on the body; the body, historically, socially and culturally signified, as a signed, differentiated, hybrid, transformed and performative body.

Drawing material from the internet, pop culture, music, fashion and art history, Rania Emmanouilidou creates in her work images of a personal mythology, with enigmatic figures, where traditional gender roles are deconstructed and the linear view of time is overturned.

Emmanouilidou explores the politics of the body, dissects and breaks down the structures of identity and power, while at the same time her hybrid iconography, in which phantasmagoric transformations of the human and the animal alternate, records the present and looks towards the (imaginary) future. Social consciousness, moral and political attitude, artistic imagination and skill coexist in her varied work - mainly sculpture and painting - which is rich in visual and conceptual stimuli.

The exhibition is the fourth and last stop in the Museum’s tribute-exhibition series, entitled "Four Artists, Four Attitudes", which features women artists and curators.

Curated by: Thouli Misirloglou, Artistic Director of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art

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Collective artworks & exchange auction

Thursday 19 December 2024, 20:00

Collective artworks by Rania Emmanouilidou, Fani Boudouroglou and Lia Psoma will be under an alternative auction, organised by Eugenia Grammenou and Virginia Mastrogiannaki.

Exhibition’s Finissage

Saturday 25 January 2025

Information will be announced soon.

Rania Emmanouilidou CV

Rania Emmanouilidou studied at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she works intermittently as a commissioned professor. Her artistic practice includes painting, sculpture, video and installation. Part of her artistic research is the creation of sustainable materials for the production of works of art, as well as the wider dialogue with the public and the activation of small local communities for the co-production of cultural actions, through workshops, lectures and interdisciplinary, educational programmes. Emmanouilidou has presented six solo exhibitions and has participated in group exhibitions and projects in Greece and abroad. With Apostolos Rizos, they are the co-founders of Les Yper Yper, a hybrid platform for research and connecting the dynamics between the arts, visual communication and design. She herself has organised and curated exhibitions, projects and residencies in collaboration with private and public bodies (TISF, ICTVC, Goethe-Institut, Municipality of Torino-Italy, Municipality of Alberta-Canada etc.) and has presented seminars and workshops. In addition, she has dealt with scenography, costumes and the visual environment in theater plays and performances.

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Primary Tide

dimitra.samsaki — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 11:51:23 +0000

Primary Tide dimitra.samsaki Fri, 09/06/2024 - 15:01

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Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 09/12/2024 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 11/03/2024 - 22:00

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Museum Alex Mylona

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In the frame of the Art Athina Young Artist Award 2023

Opening: Thursday 12 September 2024, 20:00

A primary, cosmogenic, overwhelming tide of materials, meanings, signs and experiences is about to happen on the occasion of Stefania Strouza's new exhibition entitled "Primary Tide" at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona (Agioi Asomaton Square 5, Thissio) in Athens, from 12 September to 3 November 3, 2024.

The exhibition takes place within the frame of the programmatic collaboration of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art with the Panhellenic Association of Art Galleries and Art Athina fair for the Young Artist Award, seeking to support and promote the work of young contemporary artists.

In the "Primary Tide" exhibition, which could be described as a retrospective of Strouza’s work over the last 10 years, the starting points of her inspiration and her working framework are captured. Consistent in her work, she herself combines and captures elements of geography, culture, art, history, mythology, science and philosophy, with her sculptural compositions, her in situ installations, the mix of natural and synthetic materials in the production process of her works.

Nature and man's altered relationship with it now runs through the broad and interdisciplinary and theoretical background of Strouza’s work, in an attempt to indicate the depth of the inconsistency and the need to restore this destructive disorder.The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalogue, supported by Art Athina. The exhibition is also part of the Museum’s tribute exhibition series, entitled “Four Women Artists-Four Attitudes” series, which features women artists and curators.

Exhibition curator: Domna Gounari, MOMus Curator

The Young Artist Award Art Athina 2023

Stefania Strouza who is represented by the a.antonopoulou.art gallery is the holder of the Art Athina Young Artist Award 2023. The Award, established by the fair in 2022, aims to strengthen artistic creation; artists up to 45 years of age, who live and work in Greece and are recommended by the gallery that represents them, where they have made at least one individual exhibition, can be nominated for the award.

After evaluating the 18 nominated works submitted by the artists and the galleries representing them, the jury unanimously decided to award the prize to Stefania Strouza. The jury recognized the consistency, coherence, research depth, and diversity of the artistic pursuits in Stefania Strouza’s work, which spans a wide range of media. The jury also took note of the multidimensional nature of her work and career so far, as well as the relevance and importance of the themes she addresses and the theoretical-research framework underpinning her artistic approach.

The Young Artist Award Art Athina 2024 will be announced on Friday 20 September 2024 at 18:00, during a special event, at Zappeion Megaron, in Athens.

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Public talk «Primary Tide: Stefania Strouza’s dynamic practice in the frame of the Art Athina Talks

Friday 20 September 2024, 17:30-18:00

Zappeion Megaron, Athens

Speakers: Domna Gounari, MOMus Curator / Christian Oxenius, Independent Curator and Head of Research for the International Biennial Association / Stefania Strouza, Visual Artist / Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly

Entrance with the Art Athina ticket. Please find all Information, here https://art-athina.gr/en/

Stefania Strouza CV

Stefania Strouza is a visual artist currently living and working in Athens. Her practice explores how cultural narratives of diverse epochs connect to produce new identity projects. It examines the exchange of forms and symbols across large distances and the cross-cultural syncretisms that emerge from it. The artist materialises these ideas through sculptural works and installations that draw associations between the symbolic world of objects and notions of temporality, corporeality, and geography.

Her work has been featured nationally and internationally in solo and group exhibitions. Solo exhibitions (selection): Water abandons itself. Gold takes life over., a.antonopoulou.art, 2024· I my Sea Journey, I my Land Claim, Old Oil Mill Factory, Eleusis Cultural Capital of Europe, Elefsina, 2023· 212 Medea (Recited from an Empty Middle), AnnexM, Megaron-The Athens Concert Hall, Athens, 2021· Currents and Currencies, a.antonopoulou.art, Athens, 2017· Shore, Wiener Art Foundation, Wien, 2016· To a certain degree sacredness is in the eye of the beholder / Act V, Neue Galerie Innsbruck, Innsbruck, 2015· To a certain degree sacredness is in the eye of the beholder / Act III, Athens & Epidaurus Festival, 2014. Group exhibitions (selection): Plasmata II: Ioannina, organized by the Onassis Stegi, Ioannina, 2023· The Mediterranean: A Round Sea, ARCO Madrid, with a.antonopoulou.art, Madrid, 2023· Mr. Robinson Crusoe Stayed Home: Adventures of Design in Times of Crisis, Benaki Museum, Athens, 2021· Ride into the Sun, 3rd Industrial Art Biennial, Istria, 2020· The Palace at 4 a.m. –collaboration of NEON with the Whitechapel Gallery–, Archaeological.

Museum of Mykonos, 2019· Ad Astra, Pinta Miami, Miami, 2018· Imagined Homes, 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017· Desk in Exile, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Dessau, 2016· No Country for Young Men: Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis, BOZAR, Brussels, 2014· Afresh: A New Generation of Greek Artists, National Museum of Contemporary Art-EMST, Athens, 2013.

Strouza has received numerous accolades such as the Art Athina Award 2023, the Inspire Prize of MOMus- Museum of Contemporary Art (2021), the ARTWORKS Award (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Artist Fellowship Program) (2018), the Emerging Artists Award of the National Bank of Greece (2017), and the Diploma

Award of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2015). She has been an artist-inresidence at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies in Princeton University, US (2016), the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, DE (2016), at Studio Residency in Mexico City, MX (2018) with the support of the Austrian Federal Chancellery, at MANA

Contemporary New Jersey, US (2019), at CCA Andratx in Mallorca, ES (2020), and at ISCP, US (2021).

With prior graduate studies at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (2007), Strouza also holds an MFA in Environmental Art from the Edinburgh College of Art (2010) along with a Magister in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (2015). She is currently a PhD candidate at the Architecture Department of the University of Thessaly.

www.stefaniastrouza.com

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Ira Waldron. Κύκλοι που δεν κλείνουν ποτέ

dimitra.samsaki — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:15:55 +0000

Ira Waldron. Circles that never close dimitra.samsaki Thu, 06/13/2024 - 16:10

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Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 09/01/2024 - 20:00

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Museum Alex Mylona

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Opening: Thursday 20 May 2024, 20:00

The MOMus, as a custodian of the work of the internationally renowned artist Ira Waldron, presents the first posthumous exhibition of her oeuvre at the MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in Athens. Paintings, porcelain sculptures, textile compositions, prints based on graphic design, artworks on the whole and in their essence profoundly political make up Ira Waldron's life's body of work, in the exhibition entitled "Circles that never close", which will be presented from 20 June to 30 August 2024 at the MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona (Thissio, Athens).

Ira Walrdron (1957-2023) is one of the foremost examples of a truly international artist who never settled for any artistic or stylistic stereotype. An artist who explored many different means of expression, choices, and perspectives, Waldron viewed history, society, and the art market, as well as all other aspects of art, through a very sensitive perspective.

Since the mid-1980s she had worked professionally in London, Moscow and Paris. With exhibitions in Western Europe and Russia and participation in numerous international projects, her works are included in public museum and private collections. Using a variety of media, including painting, installations, photographs, silkscreens, anthropomorphic porcelain and embroidery, she addresses social, political, religious and sexual issues that transcend conventions and prejudices in a radical way and with dark humour. Humour, playfulness and boldness are characteristics that structurally run through her oeuvre.

As a creator and as a member of a wider international artistic community in more than one countries (Russia, UK, France as an artist belonging to the larger international art community (in Russia, Great Britain, France), felt effortlessly and fearlessly at home everywhere, moving with her quirky sense of humour seamlessly between expressive media, techniques, materials, and styles, ultimately being a purely conceptual artist.

The exhibition honours this important artist and reintroduces her to the Greek and international public, while at the same time it attempts to assess and present her unique artistic personality through works from her early, middle and late creative life.

At the same time, it highlights her major donation of some 300 works to MOMus, which was completed shortly before her death in 2023. Many of these works are presented in this exhibition, with the unstinting assistance and ever-creative spirit of Ira Waldron's husband, Simon Waldron.

Her artworks are included in public and private collections, including the French Centre Pompidou, the Tretyakov State Gallery and the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Moscow, the State Museum of Russia in St. Petersburg, and the Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki. Ira Waldron had participated in exhibitions in Thessaloniki, including the 2018 solo exhibition "Interstices" at the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki (now MOMus-Experimental Center for the Arts).

The exhibition is the second production by MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in 2024 under the “Four Women Artists-Four Attitudes” series, which features women artists and curators.

Curated by: Areti Leopoulou, art historian-MOMus curator

Ira Waldron donation, © MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary of Contemporary Art and State Museum of Contemporary Art

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To MOMus-Μουσείο Άλεξ Μυλωνά στο This is Athens City Festival!

dimitra.samsaki — Wed, 08 May 2024 11:08:31 +0000

MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona at This is Athens City Festival! dimitra.samsaki Wed, 05/08/2024 - 14:18

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Guided Tours

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Education Exhibition

Alex Mylona –By Hand

Start Date

Thu, 05/16/2024 - 11:00

End Date

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 19:00

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For the second year, the This is Athens City Festival brings together and proposes to the residents and visitors of Athens special events of culture, gastronomy and more during May!

MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona participates in this year's This is Athens City Festival with two special guided tours of the current exhibition "Alex Mylona: By Hand" on May 16 and 23 2024 (in Greek and English respectively) with free admission for the public. Registrations at +30 210 3215717, Tuesday-Sunday 11:00-19:00. Maximum number of participants: 25 people.

The exhibition “Alex Mylona –By Hand” is the first in a series of exhibitions showcasing female sculptors and organised by the MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in 2024, in the frame of the “Four Women Artists, Four Attitudes” series.

Over 100 works by Alex Mylonas make up the universe of the sculptor who made innovation an absolute priority in her work. The artist channeled her energy, strength and vitality into her creative career from 1950 to 2000.

The museum that bears the name of its founder belongs to the family of the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, MOMus, and is housed in two listed buildings in the area of Thissio where visitors have a wonderful view of the Acropolis.

More on This is Athens City Festival: This is Athens - City Festival

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Άλεξ Μυλωνά –Διά χειρός

dimitra.samsaki — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 10:22:51 +0000

Alex Mylona –By Hand dimitra.samsaki Mon, 04/15/2024 - 13:30

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Temporary

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Start Date

Sat, 04/20/2024 - 10:00

End Date

Sun, 06/09/2024 - 19:00

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Museum Alex Mylona

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First production in the frame of the “Four Women Artists, Four Attitudes” series

Opening: Saturday 20 April 2024, 12:00

Quotes by Alex Mylona, a Pioneer of postwar Greek art, from publications, interviews and her own notes, along with her works from all periods of her creation compose her very personality in the new exhibition entitled “Alex Mylona –By Hand” which will be presented at the museum that bears her name, in Thisio, Athens, from 20 April to 09 June, 2024.

The experience of women’s emancipation, freedom of choice, independence, courage and perseverance in the face of all difficulties, enthusiasm and the persistent effort to achieve acceptance are the hallmarks of the life and work of sculptor Alex Mylona. Marble, metal, paper dominate as materials in the exhibition on the three flours of MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona, together with archival material.

“They told me to write something about my work. I’ve never done this. But I have thought a great deal on that very dificullt subject we call art. I think it is of primary importance to be sincere with myself. To give generously to objects, the designs in colors and forms which my own personal aesthetic perceprion suggests in accord with my idionyncracy.”, Alex Mylona noted (November, 1956).

Landmark years for herseld were surely her sculpture studies under Michael Tombros at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, and 1960, when she was the only woman in the group of artists representing Greece at the 30th Venice Biennale, alongside Yiannis Spyropoulos, Alekos Kontopoulos, Lazaros Lameras and Efthymis Papadimitriou.

Her artistic work is distinguished by some of her milestone works: the contemplative and introspective curves of Motherhood (1942), the solid, rocky Amazon (1953), the cruciform and tragic Cry of Medea and the rhythmic Berioshka-Russian Dance (both from 1957), the Birth of Aphrodite (1960) in wrought iron painted black, whose austere stillness, coarseness and sharp ends evoke an archaic symbol, the sculptural experimentations for the public space Propositions for Architecture (1976), the two strict, silent marble sculptures, Kouros and Kore (1997).

She herself, always creative and active through the decades, was fortunate enough to see her dream come true, with the foundation of the Museum Alex Mylona in 2004, by uniting two houses – a neoclassical one from the 1920s and a sample of a 19th century rural house – in the Psirri area in Thisio, as a core of contemporary sculpture, research and the promotion of young artists.

The exhibition is the first production by MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in 2024 under the “Four Women Artists-Four Attitudes” series, which features women artists and curators.

The exhibition is also aligned with the outdoor exhibition entitled “Alex Mylona | Fulfillment” in the frame of WOW Athens 2024, in the context of the collaboration between the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) and the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum.

Curated by: Katerina Syroglou, Art Historian

*Caption: Alex Mylona in her studio, 1960. Photo. Makis Skiadaresis

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Συζυγία. Στέρεο φως & άχρονη κίνηση | Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2023

maria.zampeti — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 10:48:44 +0000

Syzygy. Solid Light & Timeless Motion | Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2023 maria.zampeti Thu, 10/19/2023 - 14:05

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Temporary

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Start Date

Fri, 10/13/2023 - 20:40

End Date

Sun, 01/07/2024 - 20:40

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Museum Alex Mylona

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Syzygy. Solid Light & Timeless Motion | Apollon Glykas – Ilias Sipsas

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Duration: 13/10-07/01/2024
Opening days & hours: TU | TH | FR | SA | SU > 11:00-19:00, TH > 11:00-22:00
Venue: MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona

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Apollon Glykas – Ilias Sipsas

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Yannis Bolis

Coproduction: MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona

The compositions created by Ilias Sipsas and Apollon Glykas present an original concept of viewing, transforming and interpreting reality and the human condition. Their collaboration also forges a unified intervention, a multifaceted visual environment that evolves dynamically, an environment rich in content and open to multiple readings and diverse approaches. The starting point for the duo is their combination of photography and sculpture.

Simple, fortuitous, anonymous photographs with no artistic assertions or intentions, images that simply document and capture people and ordinary moments of our life and world -temporally and on paper-, such fragments of memory serve as the material and thematic axes of their work.

By enlarging, processing and dissecting these photographs, by selecting parts rather than the entirety of the images, by fragmenting and intervening on their surface, and, typically, by detaching their subject from its temporal and social context, integrating the images into wall or spatial constructions, they create a new condition defined by its coherent character. However, in their use of photographs, they maintain their individual, distinctive style, with each establishing his own sensibility, perspective and aesthetic.

Ilias Sipsas explores the analogies between photographic and physical/real space. His large-scale photographic collages conceptually communicate with his sculptural constructions, in which he resourcefully combines objets trouvés with an assortment of materials (metals, clay, plaster, stones, glass, wood, plastic). Often, his works make structural use of light and are distinguished by their materiality, elegance and brittleness, their Dadaist spirit and their subversive-surrealist mood.

Apollon Glykas’ works originate from a process of connections, as he works with various materials and techniques. His projects combine photographs (often from his personal archive) with metal elements that allude to technological culture, such as antennae, struts, parts of communication systems, bases. He uses these elements as they are, without interfering with the texture or colour of the material. Meanwhile, motion and light play a key role in his work. The indeterminate -in terms of their intended use and purpose- constructions where the photographs are embedded are constructivist in their approach. These surprising and paradoxical encounters between constructions and photographs create narratives in which time is the dominant dimension, with the notions of the past and future positioned at their core – these images-“messages” are fragments of an antediluvian life in a future world.

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Μόνιμη Έκθεση Μουσείου Άλεξ Μυλωνά

ContentAdmin — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 11:54:33 +0000

Permanent Exhibition Museum Alx Mylona ContentAdmin Thu, 09/07/2023 - 13:59

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Start Date

Mon, 01/01/2018 - 20:40

End Date

Thu, 12/31/2037 - 20:40

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The truth, the power, the sensitivity and the poetics of Alex Mylonas' art are some of the elements highlighted in the permanent exhibition at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in Athens.

The sculptures, watercolors and drawings of Alex Mylona reflect a common thread which runs through the entire work of Alex Mylona: from the anthropocentric compositions she created in the 1950s, to the formality, austere stillness, coarseness and sharp ends, the game of lines, empty forms and vertical surfaces characterising her abstract wrought iron sculptures presented at the 1960 Venice Biennale; and from the twists and turns, the curves, the movements and tensions of the malleable sheet metal in Architectural Propositions (1976), to the exceptionally simplicity of sculptural form and the purity of geometrical marble surfaces with the joining of circles and semicircles, squares or rectangles. Two emblematic works in marble from 1998, Kouros and Kore, appear to "close the circle" (her words), summarising her varied and multidimensional life both as a person and as an artist. The art of Alex Mylona succeeds in transmuting emotion and moulding its vital relationship with the world; in touching the secret of existence, birth and death, motherhood and love; in combining the myths of the ancient Greek world - the birth of Aphrodite, the Minotaur and Medea - with the spirituality of Byzantium, to seek out the balances, to reflect on the nature and potential of plastic art, to suggest a new arrangement of space and surface, of rhythm and volumes, of positivity and negativity, of emptiness and wholeness, of materiality and form.

Alex Mylona was born in Athens in 1920. Her parents recognised her artistic talent early, offering her the opportunity of taking painting lessons at the age of eight. In 1940 she married politician Georgios Mylonas. In 1943 their first daughter, Maria, was born, followed in 1944 by their second daughter, Eleni. In 1945 she was admitted to the Athens School of Fine Arts, studying under sculptor Michael Tombros. In 1949 she gave birth to her third child, Alexandros.

After finishing her studies, Alex Mylona devoted herself wholeheartedly to art, participating in several group exhibitions. In 1960 she represented Greece at the Venice Biennale, her sculptures drawing the enthusiastic support of art critic Herbert Read. In the 1960s she took part in several important Biennales and other international exhibitions in Alexandria, Paris, Montreal, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Budapest. During that period she also kept a workshop in Paris, located near Montparnasse. In 1980 she moved her workshop to the district of Le Marais. Living in the French capital she had the chance of meeting important sculptors, such as H. Arp, A. Giacometti and O. Zadkine, and painters like J. Atlan.

Her solo exhibitions denote and reflect the different stages of her artistic and personal development. The 1961 "Parnassus" exhibition was a retrospective dominated by compositions originally exhibited in Venice. In 1976, at the "Polyplano" art gallery, she presented her projects on volume and void, while in 1984, at the Athens Art Gallery (and later, in 1988, at the Parisian gallery "Denise René"), she presented her investigations on the archetypal forms of the circle and the square expressed on marble. In 1986, the National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens hosted a large retrospective of her work.

In addition to sculpture, Alex Mylona created several works on paper, was involved in painting and designed sets and costumes for performances by Rallou Manou's Hellenic Horeodrama group. Mylona's creative work was in step with contemporaneous modern and progressive art movements, while also highlighting her Greek descent and the international dimension of her compositions. In her later years, she founded the Alex Mylona Museum, looking for a permanent, public home for her works and for a place that would always welcome the works of young aspiring artists.

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Contemporary Womanhood 1.0: σύγχρονες θηλυκότητες

editor — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 12:11:21 +0000

Contemporary Womanhood 1.0: present femininities editor Fri, 08/25/2023 - 15:13

Education type

Guided Tours

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Education Exhibition

Contemporary Womanhood 1.0: present femininities

Start Date

Thu, 07/06/2023 - 20:00

End Date

Sun, 10/08/2023 - 20:00

Museum

Museum Alex Mylona

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Guided tours in Greek language are taking place every Saturday and Sunday at 13:00 (except 29-30.07, 12-13.08, 19-20.08), with the admission ticket.

Book your place by contacting on the below

tel. 210 3215717 or
email reception.mam@momus.gr

The parallel activities programme -speeches, screenings, performances- will take place on September and will be announced shortly.

Contemporary Womanhood 1.0: σύγχρονες θηλυκότητες

editor — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 12:09:38 +0000

Contemporary Womanhood 1.0: present femininities editor Fri, 08/25/2023 - 15:10

Exhibition Type

Temporary

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Start Date

Thu, 07/06/2023 - 20:00

End Date

Sun, 10/08/2023 - 20:00

Museum

Museum Alex Mylona

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Sculpture as a form of art and a myth-oral tradition both act as a common basis and creative starting point for the personal, special, sensitive and at the same time dynamic artistic gestures by 14 contemporary women artists in the exhibition entitled "Contemporary Womanhood 1.0: present femininities" at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in Athens, from 06 July to 08 October 2023.

The exhibition, which is hosted intentionally at the department of contemporary sculpture of MOMus, a museum founded by the woman sculptor Alex Mylona, an intangible connection of the transition from modern to contemporary is attempted, not only in sculpture but also in creation and life itself.

The main pillar of the exhibition's research is the work of the psychoanalyst and activist Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and more specifically her book entitled "Women Who Run with the Wolves". Through intuitive, explorative and cathartic myths related to the untamed nature of women, the author brings tales from the past to the modern era. This exhibition focuses on the best-known story from Inuit’s oral tradition – the Skeleton Woman. According to the legend, a woman who experiences absolute despair and lives as a monstrous creature underwater, manages to keep the essence of her being intact and eventually reborn, through the power of transformation.

The triptych of life – death – death described in the myth making death a transitory path of transmutation, transformation and mutation, acts as a common thread for the axes that run throughout the exhibition: sculpture, the artistic gesture, the position of the female artist, and the mutation of it all from established ideas and entrenched, inaccessible and rigid standards to something more fluid, new and ultimately alive again.

Artists: Mirsini Artakianou, Despina Charitonidi, Nicole Economides, Nikomachi Karakostanoglou, Mariandrie, Natalia Manta, Esmeralda Momferratou, Natalia Papadopoulou, Harikleia Papapostolou, Nana Sachini, Johnna Sachpazis, Sophia Saranti, Marina Velisioti, Dimitra Zervou

Curated by: Faidra Vasileiadou, museologist - art curator

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