Miltos Michailidis
dal 17/10/2007 al 16/11/2007
Segnalato da
17/10/2007
Miltos Michailidis
Medusa Art Gallery, Athens
The artist paints the portrait of V., the women's photographer, and his irregular gang - a strange quartet he seems to have met in Milan at some point in the past. A visual game of memory which sets off from the premise that memory itself is an interpretation rather than hard fact.
The women's photographer
On Thursday 18 October at 8 in the evening, Maria Dimitriadi opens the exhibition of
the latest work of Miltos Michailidis. The show forms part of the events for the
14th Month of Photography, organised by the Hellenic Centre for Photography; it is
the second participation of the Medusa Art Gallery in these events.
In his first solo exhibition at the Medusa, Miltos Michailidis paints the portrait
of V., the women's photographer, and his irregular gang - a strange quartet he seems
to have met in Milan at some point in the past.
As he unfolds a kind of visual journal from that time on the gallery's walls,
Michailidis recalls and pays tribute to another artist: V., the women's
photographer, his friend and mentor. It was from him that the artist learned that
what matters in art is the process and that perfection is achieved through
repetition.
The whole venture is a visual game of memory which sets off from the premise that
memory itself is an interpretation rather than hard fact and hence it can be
distorted.
Miltos Michailidis was born in Athens in 1971. He studied painting at the Accademia
di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan. He has had two solo exhibitions in Milan and
participated in group shows in Greece and Italy. In 2006 he won first prize at the
Premio Internazionale di Video Arte, a competition held as part of the Bienalle
Adriatica di Arti Nuove (San Benedetto del Tronto) in Italy.
The show under the title "The women's photographer" at the Medusa Art Gallery is the
artist's first solo exhibition in Athens.
Medusa Art Gallery
7 Xenokratous Str - Athens
Gallery Hours Tue - Fri 11:00 - 1400 and 18:30 - 21:30 . Sat 10:00 - 14:00
Free admission