Yannis Moralis: Architectural Compositions

The exhibition 'Architectural Compositions' of Yiannis

Moralis, is taking place at Benaki Museum in Athens Greece.

Yiannis Moralis (1916-2009), one of the most distinguished twentieth-century Greek artists, articulated his artistic discourse through a myriad of painted works, but also challenged himself creatively with various forays into the arts of engraving, set design and microsculpture, as well as various applications and architecture.

In February 2009 the artist bestowed on the Benaki Museum the preliminary drawings for the architecture compositions that he maintained at his studio (approximately 120 works).Yannis Moralis was well known and celebrated for his artistic interventions in the appearance of public buildings, first displayed in 1959 in his collaboration on the Athens Hilton Hotel. These marked an era and broadened the horizons of collaboration between architects and artists. Over the following thirty years he submitted proposals for hotels, banks, public buildings as well as private residences. As many of these structures have since been destroyed, and this particular donation to the Benaki Museum constitutes an archive that provides testimony of exceptional importance to those who study the artist's oeuvre; particularly since the donation includes ideas for architectural compositions, which never came to fruition.

The exhibition can be considered to be the first complete presentation of the artist's architectural creations.

Don´t miss to visit the exhibition Architectural Compositions " of Yannis Moralis, at Benaki Museum in Athens Greece

Start date: 

10 Feb 2011

End date: 

30 Apr 2011

Venue: 

Benaki Museum
1 Koumbari St. & Vas. Sofias Ave.
tel 210 367 1000
fax 210 367 1063
benaki@benaki.gr

BUSES 022, 060, 200, 203, 204, 211, 214, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 231, 235, 408, 419, 601, 603, 622, 815, Α5, Γ5, Ε5Θ, Ε6, Ε7
TROLLEY-BUSES 3, 7, 8, 13
METRO lines 2, 3 (SYNTAGMA & EVAGELISMOS stations)

Tickets: 

Full admission: € 6 Temporary Exhibition: € 3

Free admission every Thursday (except temporary exhibition and guided groups) and the International Museum Day (May 18th)