This summer, the Basil and Elise Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art on the Cycladic island of Andros will be hosting a tribute to a very important Greek artist Dimitris Mytaras . It is an homage comprising dozens of works that cover all the different phases of his career, shed light on little-known chapters of his life and testify to his mastery in drawing and coloring.
The retrospective opens on July 1. The exhibition begins with Mytaras’s earliest work, which stands out for its maturity despite the artist’s youth. It then turns to two themes that engaged the artist from 1960 up to his death: mirrors and portraits. The 1967-74 military dictatorship played a pivotal role and changed the direction of Mytaras’s work, prompting him to use color as a condemnation of the regime. Violence dominates a lot of his work after that period too, especially in his paintings with the motorcycle, the accidents and landscapes distorted by man. A series of female figures feature in the tribute, but there is also a surprising section on stray dogs, to which the artist dedicated a number of canvases.
The show will last from July 1 to September 30 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (tel 22820.224.44, www.moca-andros.gr) in the main town of Andros (Mondays 11 a.m. – 3 p.m., Wednesdays-Sundays 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. & 6-9 p.m.). Admission costs 5 euros.
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