The Alex Mylonas sculptor exhibition will not close on the 30th of August as originally planned. Since it has received a considerable amount of success with a minimum of 35 visitors during the 3 hours per day it stays open, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki and the Municipality of Paxos decided to keep it open until the end of September. Entrance is free. Apart from weekends 10, 11 and 17, 18 September, the exhibition will remain open daily from 20.00 until approximately 22.30. Old Lakka School house.

Alex Mylonas studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts from 1945 until 1950 in the studio of M. Tombros. She organized her first solo exhibition in Athens in 1955 and from 1954 participated in the artistic group "Workshop". Among  the group exhibitions she participated, is the 30th Venice Biennale (1960), where she represented Greece with G. Spyropoulos, A. Kontopoulos and L. Lameras, the exhibitions "Greek painters and sculptors in Paris and Religious Art" (Paris, 1962), "New Sculpture" (Museum Rodin, 1963), etc. In 1986 the National Gallery held a retrospective of her works, and in 2004 the Museum of Contemporary Art Alex Mylonas was inaugurated in Athens. Her early efforts had as a thematic starting point the human figure, however stylized, one recognizes in many of them the artist's acquaintance with the work of Giacometti and Zadkine. Exploring her own expressive language, comes around in 1960 with metal sculpture inspired by the expressionistic vocabulary and the mythological theme and is characterized by angular formats.

The exhibition is presented by the donation of:

J. F. COSTOPOULOS FOUNDATION

Co organized :

Municipality of Paxos

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

Sponsoring exhibition installation: company Nail2Nail

For more information, please contact:

 Municipality of Paxos, 49 082 Paxi tel. +26620 32207, +26620 32100

www.paxi.gr

 Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, www.mmca.org.gr, mmcart@mmca.org.gr, tel.  + 2310 240002

 Museum Alex Mylona - Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, www.mmca-mam.gr, mam@mmca-mam.gr, tel +210 3215717