Eleni Mylonas Explained

Eleni Mylonas
Native Name:Ελένη Μυλωνά
Nationality:Greek American
Education:University of Geneva
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
University of Westminster
New York Studio School
Birth Date:14 September 1944
Birth Place:Athens, Greece
Known For:photography
performance
multimedia

Eleni Mylonas (Greek: Ελένη Μυλωνά; born 14 September 1944) is a Greek-born American artist.

Early life and education

Eleni Mylonas was born on 14 September 1944 in Athens to father politician Georgios Mylonas, who's served as minister of Culture and Education, and mother Alex Mylona, sculptor and co-founder of the MOMus Museum Alex Mylona in Athens.[1] She received a BA from the University of Geneva in 1966 and an MA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1967 as a Fulbright scholar.[2] She graduated in photography at the University of Westminster in 1972 and in painting and sculpture at the New York Studio School in 1995.[3]

Work

Mylonas is a multidisciplinary artist with works in traditional media, video art, and performance.

Her first exhibition was Nude Landscapes at the Zoumboulaki Gallery of Athens, in 1982.[4]

Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the MoMA PS1[5] in New York City; Benaki Museum[6] in Athens; Francoise Heitsch Gallery[7] [8] in Munich; Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] in Athens; Zoumboulaki Gallery[14] [15] in Athens; Foundation of Hellenic Culture[16] in New York City and Art Resources Transfer.[17] Her work has been shown at various museums and galleries including, the Queens Museum[18] in New York City; MOMus Museum[19] in Thessaloniki; EMST Museum[20] in Athens; Cooper Union[21] in New York; Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete;[22] and the Alternative Museum[23] in New York City. She has collaborated with international curators including Joanna de Vos,[24] Beral Madra,[25] Christian Oxenius,[26] Edward Leffingwell[27] and Sozita Goudouna.[28] Three bodies of work from her photographic archive, Ellis Island, NY Graffiti/Street Art and Portraits of Artists & Personalities, are part of the MoMA Archives.[29]

Reviews

On the occasion of the New York exhibition of Mylonas's series of photographs of the abandoned Ellis Island,[30] American art critic April Kingsley wrote the images make "rubble-covered rags look like the draperies on the Nike of Samothrace." She added that the artist's "eye finds the formal beauty of ancient Greece at its most glorious in the least of the modern world's visual material--graffiti, the rubble of abandoned buildings and empty lots, and, recently wrecked automobiles."[31]

Critic Evely Vogel of the Süddeutsche Zeitung remarked that her 2014 exhibition "Town Crier" was "inspired by the demonstrators of the Arab spring" and "full of revolutionary urge and humor." The artist's "allegorical call," she concluded, "to "fight against tyranny is just too timeless."[32] During the first Athens Biennial, from 10 September until 18 November 2007, named "Destroy Athens" with the intention to "lay waste to the association of Greece with classical culture," her video piece Lamb of God that closed the show had been reportedly "captured on the first day of the U.S. invasion of Iraq." According to ArtNets Brian Skar, the "spare" clip "hammer[ed] together in a single point, myth, the abject, and the groping for larger social significance that characterizes [the whole Biennial]."[33]

Personal life

In 1967, she married writer Elias Kulukundis, who subsequently became involved in springing outside the country her father who, at the time, was imprisoned and exiled in the Aegean island of Amorgos[34] [35] by the regime. They divorced in the late 1970s.[36]

See also

Publications

Collections

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki – MOMus . MOMus Museum. 2021. 5 September 2021.
  2. Web site: Fulbright@Salon de Bricolage . Fulbright Foundation, Greece . 2016. 5 September 2021.
  3. Web site: Eleni Mylonas . Francoise Heitsch Gallery. Munich, Germany. German . 2021. 5 September 2021.
  4. Web site: 2021 . Eleni Mylonas . 5 September 2021 . ArtFacts.
  5. Leffingwell, Edward (February 1986). Special Projects-Journey Through Ellis Island. www.moma.org/ps1
  6. Petrinou, Christina (2014). Eleni Mylonas: The Cursed Serpent. www.benaki.org Dedicated to Chryssa.
  7. Heitsch, Francoise (2014). The Town Crier. www.francoiseheitsch.de
  8. Petrinou, Christina (2013), Synthesis, www.francoiseheitsch.de
  9. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center (2000). Virtual Landscape. solo show. www.art-tounta.gr
  10. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center (1991). Space Odyssey. solo show. www.art-tounta.gr
  11. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center (1991). Universal Salvage. solo show. www.art-tounta.gr
  12. Ileana Tounta (1996). Afghanistan 1972. solo show. www.art-tounta.gr
  13. Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center (1996). Fragments. solo show. www.art-tounta.gr
  14. Zoumboulakis Galleries (1982). Nude Landscapes. solo show. www.zoumboulakis.gr
  15. Zoumboulaki Galleries. Journey through Ellis Island. solo show. www.zoumboulakis.gr
  16. Foundation of Hellenic Culture (2000). Quasi Periodic Space. solo show.
  17. [William S. Bartman|Bartman, William]
  18. [Peter Selz|Selz, Peter]
  19. https://www.artsy.net/article/greekpavilion-about-the-curator-syrago-tsiara Tsiara, Syrago
  20. Koskina, Katerina & Sxizakis, Stamatis (2018), New Acquisitions. 2017-2018. group show. www.emst.gr
  21. Friedman, Nathaniel & Chilla, Benigna (2001). Art & Mathematics. group show. www.isama.org
  22. Volanakis, Adonis (2019), BLIND DATE. group show. www.cca.gr
  23. Rodriguez, Geno (1986). Freedom & Justice. group show. www.alternativemuseum.org
  24. de Vos, Joanna (2017). The Artist/Knight. group show. www.kasteelvangaasbeek.be
  25. Madra, Beral (2016), 5th Çanakkale Biennial, www.canakkalebienali.com
  26. Oxenius, Christian (2017). Çanakkale Art Walk 2017: Homeland. group show. www.canakkalebienali.com
  27. [Edward Leffingwell|Leffingwell, Edward]
  28. [Sozita Goudouna|Goudouna, Sozita]
  29. https://maid.moma.org/?_ga=2.190747311.505408437.1646156451-2136222387.1646156451#/list?searchKeyword=eleni%20Mylonas MoMA Archives
  30. Web site: Eleni Mylonas : journey through Ellis Island. . 1984. 5 September 2021.
  31. News: Kingsley. Evely. August 1990. Universal Salvage. 6 September 2021.
  32. News: Vogel. Evely. 21 October 2014. Die Welt auf dem Kopf. Süddeutsche Zeitung. German. The world upside down. 6 September 2021.
  33. News: Skar. Brian . 2007. Appetite for Destruction. ArtNet. 6 September 2021.
  34. Escape from Amorgos by George Mylonas, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1974
  35. The Amorgos Conspiracy by Elias Kulukundis, published by Eleftheroudakis in 2013
  36. News: Pappas. Renee . 12 February 2013. Fact Stranger Than Fiction. Athens Insider. 6 September 2021.
  37. [Ralph Lauren]
  38. https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/69078.Edward_Booth_Clibborn Edward Booth-Clibborn
  39. https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/69078.Edward_Booth_Clibborn Edward Booth-Clibborn
  40. [Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv|Ivan Chermayeff]
  41. Smith, Judith(1992).Celebrating Immigration History at Ellis Island. Ellis Island photographs are Eleni Mylonas (1983). www.jstor.org
  42. [Barbara Rose]
  43. [Peter Selz]
  44. [National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens|National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens]
  45. National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens. Delalis, 2014, single channel video installation with sound, 09:17 min
  46. National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens. Untitled #2, 2013, archival pigment print (60" x 77")
  47. National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens. Box Man, 2011, oil on canvas (42" x 30")
  48. [Athens College]
  49. http://www.acgart.gr/ACG-COLLECTION/ARTISTS/M/MylE/MylE-bio.htm "Eleni Mylonas"
  50. [Goulandris Natural History Museum|Goulandris Museum of Natural History]
  51. https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/overview-history/ Ellis Island Museum of Immigration
  52. https://www.gnamamidakisfoundation.org/home/ G&A Mamidakis Foundation
  53. https://fkpcollection.art/ FKP Collection

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