until Tuesday December 31 2013

Teloglion Foundation of Art – AUTh
T : +30 2310247111
Agiou Demetriou 159A
GR-546 36 Thessaloniki
Greece

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The exhibition “Vasso Katraki: In Black and White” held at the Teloglion Foundation of Art is a major artistic event for the city of Thessaloniki. Vasso Katraki was the greatest female engraver in Greece and her work has illustrated the agony and the passing of the Greeks to the difficult post-war period. Her socially and politically charged work echoed a universal message of humanism and renewed essentially the art of engraving, with which dealt almost exclusively.

Abroad, she was awarded with significant prizes. Among them a prominent position certainly has the one from the Biennale of Venice, in 1966, under the Commission of Tony Spiteris. This award served as a reference point for the Greek engravers. The presentation of key-moments of her artictic course, in which prevails the typical abstract line, along with matrices and the famous pebbles from Gyaros island, is accompanied by material from the Tony Spiteris’ Archive.

All the above, enable the visitors to experience the emblematic artistic route of an engraver, who managed to connect the individual and the collective in a unique way.
The exhibition has as axis the politically charged work of Katraki, the emergence of the material and the folk art. The second axis is the imprinting of the Messolonghi’s lagoon, not only as an idyllic landscape, but also as an ecosystem in danger. This way is related to the contemporary environmental concerns about the use of water in the Mediterranean, a subject that also concerns the modern artists.