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Eleni Mylonas
Ελένη Μυλωνά
Born (1944-09-14) 14 September 1944 (age 79)
Athens, Greece
NationalityGreek American
EducationUniversity of Geneva
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
University of Westminster
New York Studio School
Known forphotography
performance
multimedia

Eleni Mylonas (Greek: Ελένη Μυλωνά; born 14 September 1944[1]) is a Greek-born American artist.

Early life and education[edit]

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.[2] 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.[3] She graduated in photography at the University of Westminster in 1972 and in painting and sculpture at the New York Studio School in 1995.[4]

Work[edit]

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.[1]

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[edit]

On the occasion of the New York exhibition of Mylonas' 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 ArtNet's 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[edit]

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[edit]

Publications[edit]

  • 1984: Ralph Lauren, Bo Niles. White Designs.[37] Published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang. ISBN 0-941434-54-0
  • 1985: Edward Booth-Clibborn. American Photography One[38] Published by Polygon Editions S.A.R.L. ISBN 0-8109-1830-7
  • 1985: Edward Booth-Clibborn. American Photography 6[39] Published by Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 0-8478-5570-8
  • 1985: Ivan Chermayeff, Fred Wasserman, Mary J. Shapiro. Ellis Island/An Illustrated History of the Immigrant Experience.[40] Macmillan Publishers ISBN 0-02-584441-5
  • 1992: Judith Smith, Celebrating Immigration History at Ellis Island.[41] The Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • 1997: Barbara Rose, Chryssa Cycladic Books 1957-1962.[42]Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art. ISBN 960-7064-20-8
  • 1999: Peter Selz, William Valerio, Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century.[43] Queens Museum of Art. ISBN 1-929641-00-1

Collections[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Eleni Mylonas". ArtFacts. 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  2. ^ "The Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki – MOMus". MOMus Museum. 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  3. ^ "Fulbright@Salon de Bricolage". Fulbright Foundation, Greece. 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  4. ^ "Eleni Mylonas" (in German). Munich, Germany: Francoise Heitsch Gallery. 2021. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  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. ^ Bartman, William (2000). Quasi Periodic Space. solo show. https://www.artresourcestransfer.org/
  18. ^ Selz, Peter & Valerio, William (1999), Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century. group show. www.queensmuseum.org
  19. ^ Tsiara, Syrago (2006). Masquerades. group show. www.momus.gr
  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. ^ Leffingwell, Edward (1986).Special Projects: Journey through Ellis Island. solo show. www.moma.org/ps1
  28. ^ Goudouna, Sozita (2019). LIVE Art Athina 2019. www.art-athina.gr
  29. ^ MoMA Archives Journey through Ellis Island, Artists & Personalities, NY Graffiti/Street Art.
  30. ^ "Eleni Mylonas : journey through Ellis Island". Smithsonian Library. 1984. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  31. ^ Kingsley, Evely (August 1990). "Universal Salvage". Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  32. ^ Vogel, Evely (21 October 2014). "Die Welt auf dem Kopf" [The world upside down]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  33. ^ Skar, Brian (2007). "Appetite for Destruction". ArtNet. Retrieved 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. ^ Pappas, Renee (12 February 2013). "Fact Stranger Than Fiction". Athens Insider. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  37. ^ Ralph Lauren, Bo Niles. White Designs. pp. 44, 45
  38. ^ Edward Booth-Clibborn. American Photography One. pp. 161, 162
  39. ^ Edward Booth-Clibborn. American Photography 6. pp. 118, 168, 169
  40. ^ Ivan Chermayeff, Fred Wasserman, Mary J. Shapiro. Ellis Island/An Illustrated History of the Immigrant Experience. pp. 258, 259
  41. ^ Smith, Judith(1992).Celebrating Immigration History at Ellis Island. Ellis Island photographs are Eleni Mylonas (1983). www.jstor.org
  42. ^ Barbara Rose, Chryssa Cycladic Books 1957-1962. pp. 142, 143
  43. ^ Peter Selz, William Valerio Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century 1999-2000. pp. 68-69
  44. ^ National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens. Untitled #4 a.k.a. Black Nun, 2013, archival pigment print (60" x 77")
  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. Book, 1991, iron construction, photos on aluminum, 3/8" beveled glass, bolts (6ftH x 8ftW x 20"D). Athens College Libraries.
  49. ^ "Eleni Mylonas". Sun GOD, 2007, carved limestone, water, galvanized metal bucket (24" x 19" x 19"). www.acgart.gr. Retrieved September 2009
  50. ^ Goulandris Museum of Natural History, GAIA, 2002, composition of three wood panels with photographs and glass (6.5ftH x 16.5ftW x 14"D). Permanently installed at the GAIA Goulandris Museum Lobby.
  51. ^ Ellis Island Museum of Immigration. Permanent Exhibition. Three prints. Eleni Mylonas (1986).
  52. ^ G&A Mamidakis Foundation, CHARIS, 1988, metal armature, rope, telegraph pole (10ftH x 105ftW x 3ftD). 1st Art Symposium – Installation at the Minos Beach art hotel
  53. ^ FKP Collection, Salt Lake City, 1998, Cibachrome (48 x 48 x 3 in), FOUGARO Art Center.

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