Promenade by Pelagia Kyriazi

From a different worldview, Pelagia Kyriazi explores aspects of the uncanny found between the personal memory and the urban experience. As Pelagia Kyriazi has often observed, the works on black paper have been captured on the conceptual axis of positive and negative elements: the images that emerge in the brain as a result of a social interaction are perceived by the painter as positive, whereas the black-and-white drawings that ensue, as negative ones: “Images exhale-release, idols inhale-absorb”. The painter starts without a draft, “removing” from the image its unnecessary elements and preserving the endless transformations that it undergoes after its internal processing. The result is a reversible reality, the animation of a moving x-ray of a world on a blackboard. As far as the economy of thought and means are concerned, the painter's technique finds its equivalent in the black and white drawings of Nikolaos Gyzis (1842–1901). With very few means the impression of an ideography is achieved, one which does not imitate the world of phenomena but instead recaptures it again: these are fossilized moments of a multidimensional universe, in which gravitational forces, geometric perspective and Euclidean geometry have temporally collapsed and in a moment that matter falls into lethargy, the mechanisms that hold its parts together are revealed.

    Spyros  Petritakis PhD Art Historian

Σάββατο 6 Μαΐου 2017, 7.00 μ.μ.

Στο πλαίσιο του εορτασμού για την 180η επέτειο από την ίδρυση του Εθνικού και Καποδιστριακού Πανεπιστημίου, το Μουσείο Ιστορίας σας προσκαλεί στα εγκαίνια της περιοδικής έκθεσης με τίτλο «Το Λάβαρο του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών: Σύγχρονες εικαστικές προσεγγίσεις» το Σάββατο 6 Μαΐου 2017 στις 7:00 μ.μ.

Το 1887, με αφορμή τη συμπλήρωση των πρώτων πενήντα χρόνων του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών, η Σύγκλητος αναθέτει τη δημιουργία του Λαβάρου του Ιδρύματος στους καλλιτέχνες Νικόλαο Γύζη και Γεώργιο Ιακωβίδη. Από τότε μέχρι και σήμερα, το Λάβαρο αποτελεί ένα από τα πιο σημαντικά εκθέματα του Μουσείου Ιστορίας του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών και χαρακτηρίζει τον θεσμό της πανεπιστημιακής εκπαίδευσης και το Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών.

Το Μουσείο Ιστορίας προσκάλεσε δέκα σύγχρονους καλλιτέχνες, τους: Αντώνιο (Παναγόπουλο), Δημήτρη Ζουρούδη, Πελαγία Κυριαζή, Ελένη Λύρα, Κύριλλο Σαρρή, Δήμητρα Σιατερλή, Δημήτρη Σκουρογιάννη, Άγγελο Σκούρτη, Γιώργο Χατζημιχάλη και Γιάννη Ψυχοπαίδη, να εμπνευστούν από το Λάβαρο και να δημιουργήσουν έργα, τα οποία, προσφέρουν μια νέα ερμηνεία του συμβόλου και του εμβλήματος του Πανεπιστήμιου στη σύγχρονη εποχή.

Μετά το τέλος των εγκαινίων, θα ακολουθήσει συναυλία του Τμήματος Μουσικών Σπουδών της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών.

Η έκθεση θα διαρκέσει μέχρι τις 31 Δεκεμβρίου 2017.

Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες: τ. 210 368 9502-10

email: museum@uoa.gr

“Art Supports Education – Fulbright Alumni Art Series”

November 2 –December 7, 2019

The Fulbright Foundation, in collaboration with i-D PROJECTART,invites you to the opening of Fulbright POLYMORPHIA exhibitionon Saturday, November 2^nd, 12:00-19:00,to support the Fulbright Scholarship Program.  All proceeds will benefit the Fulbright Scholarship Program.

The program “Art Supports Education – Fulbright Alumni Art Series” is an initiativewhich demonstrates that art supports education, just as education supports art. Fulbright artists reciprocate the opportunity they were given, by contributing with their works to support the Scholarship Program.

Participating artists: ErietaAttali, Dora Economou, EfiChalikopoulou, Leonidas Chalepas, TitinaChalmatzi, Sofia Dona, Fotis Flevotomos, Elias Kafouros, Pygmalion Karatzas, Diane Katsiaficas, Zoe Keramea, ApostolosKilessopoulos, Sia Kyriakakos, PelagiaKyriazi, Maria Letsiou, Ioannis Michalou(di)s, Eleni Mylonas, Dimitris Papaioannou + MarilenaStafylidou, LambrosPapanikolatos, Vangelis Pliarides, Loukia Richards, Fotis Sagonas, Alex Simopoulos, Giorgos Taxidis, Antonis Theodoridis, AngelikiTsoli, Giorgos Tzinoudis, Costas Varotsos, Nikolas Ventourakis, Adonis Volanakis, Kristina Williamson, ZafosXagoraris, YiorgisYerolymbos, SotosZachariadis, Theodoros Zafeiropoulos.

Fulbright POLYMORPHIA, with artworks generously offered by Fulbright artist alumni, aims to highlight the diversity (polymorphia) of expression that characterizes the contemporary visual art scene and the arts in general, an element that is firmly supported by the Fulbright Artist Program.

Curator:Eugenia Alexaki

Opening:Saturday, November 2^nd, 12:00 – 19:00

Duration:November 2 –December 7,2019

Address:i-D PROJECTART, 12 Kanari&Sekeri Street (2^nd floor), Kolonaki, Athens

Monday – Wednesday – Saturday 10:00 – 19:00&Tuesday – Thursday – Friday 10:00 – 21:00

Parallel Events:

"Arts, education, society - a polymorphic challenge", Saturday, November 30^th, 17:00-19:00

Panel discussion with Fulbright visual artists.

Panelists: Leonidas Chalepas,Sofia Dona, AdonisVolanakis - Moderator: Eugenia Alexaki

Fulbright Greece provides scholarships to Greek and U.S. citizens, students, scholars, artists, teachers and professionals and serves as the official center of information about studying in the United States. Since its inception in 1948, Fulbright Greece has awarded over 5,500 scholarships creating a vibrant, dynamic, diverse and interconnected network of alumni. For more information please visit www.fulbright.gr

i-D PROJECTART is adistinctive creative space where visitors engage with outstanding art and exceptional artists. i-D PROJECTART reflects the aesthetic sensitivities and the dedication to superior quality of i-D CONCEPTSTORES. www.idconceptstores.com/i-d-projectart/