Odysseus Elytis
28.06 - 06.09.1992
Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros
Odysseus Elytis
28.06 - 06.09.1992
A presentation of 51 visual art creations (collages, temperas and transparencies) by Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) entitled The visual arts of Odysseus Elytis held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros. The works exhibited were illustrations of poems by the lyric poet Sappho.
The exhibition was accompanied by a special publication dedicated to these works, edited by the poet Ioulita Iliopoulou.
Exhibition Catalog
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In the Museum of Contemporary Art in Andros, during a high calibre weekend, we discovered Alberto Giacometti and became participants in the dreams of Odysseus Elytis. […] 'It's narrow this road, the wider one I never knew' said the poet. However, no matter how narrow and hard the road to quality may be, this year in the Museum of Basil and Elise Goulandris, it was proven that it can lead to real surprises.
[…] The two parallel exhibitions were indeed representative and particularly important in their way. […] The effort of the Museum in Andros achieved the goals it strove for initially. By this I mean that, through the exhibition design concept, the mounting of the exhibition and the lighting, the visitor could gain a thorough perspective of Giacometti's development as well as see and admire details of his works at close quarters. Finally, one could even observe elements that cannot be seen in the best of photographic reproductions of the works and be initiated into the abstraction and transformation process of their design, something to which their creator gave so much emphasis. […]
[…] This all-white and elegant museum on Andros, an intellectual and artistic hive of activity for the last ten years, has offered the public the chance to get to know the work of great artists of our century […] and in this way, cultural decentralisation is increasingly becoming a hopeful reality. Since last year, it has managed to attract more than 12,000 visitors, thereby reaffirming the declarations of those enlightened people who consider the cultural infrastructure as the most important inducement to intellectual and social development. […]
[…] When the Poet (with a capital P) searches for a different expression at the border of 'Oxopetra', and this expression comes to rest next to the works of one of the giants of contemporary art, the result becomes almost magical and he who had the inspiration to combine the apparently disparate, adds a drop of knowledge and makes a contribution of fresh air and coolness to an environment which has become asphyxiating and dry. […]
