Jug

Porcelain jug/sauce boat by Roos Van De Velde

This jug/sauce boat is part of Van De Velde's series of porcelain pieces for the table produced by Serax. Her work also encompasses installation, glass, lighting, painting and performance.
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You can visit her website here

and you can also see some more of her table pieces here

Elles

 

 

Elles - Women Artists at the Fryssiras Museum, Athens.

An all female exhibition showcasing artists from the museum's considerable collection.

Tsakali, Anna Maria, Phillipos (oil on canvas)

Tsakali, Anna Maria, The Faucets in the Studio in Paris (mixed media on canvas)

 

 

Rego, Paul, Getting Ready for the Ball (triptych) (from the Jane Eyre Series) (lithograph)

I was disappointed that there was only one of Rego's works exhibited, as I know that the Fryssiras Foundation own a considerable number of this iconic artist's works.

 

 

Zamboura, Marilena, Untitled (mixed media)

Katsoulidi, Marianna, Dancing to the end of war, (oil on canvas)

Baillon, Agnes, Untitled (bronze)

Katraki, Vasso, Untitled (engraving)

Gonou, Eirini, Dryad 1, (mixed media)

 

The museum is an extraordinary place and while taking photographs of the exhibits I was also taking pictures of the space. You can find out more about the museum here

 



 

Lampe, Katinka, Untitled (oil on canvas)

Kastori, Kalle, The Green Coat, (oil on canvas)

Kastori, Kalle, Homeless (oil on canvas)

Georgiopoulou, Vicky, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (acrylic on canvas)

Kapezanou, Stella, Le Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe, (oil on canvas)

 

 

Another photograph of the atrium in the middle of the museum space which used to be a courtyard - it looks a bit like an Escher lithograph, does it not?

 

 

 

Baillon, Agnes, Untitled (bronze)



a different view

 

The light from the glass roof makes everything turn blue in this part of the space

 

 

 

Michailou, Eleni, I am Losing my Senses I-VII, (acrylic spray on paper)

Litti, Aphrodite, The Fountain of Life, (bronze, stainless metal and mosaic Murano)

Krystalla,Aspasia, Naturlish II, (ink on paper)

 

 

 

Chrisochoou, Sissy, Face to Face, (mixed media)

 

 

Vishaki, Marilitsa, Beggar (oil on canvas)

Xafopoulou, Alexia, Blue I, II, III, IV, (acrylic on canvas)

Calbari, Christina, Reading, (watercolour and pencil on paper)

 

Djurdjevic, Biljana, Invisible, (oil on canvas)

Vlahaki, Marilitsa, Untitled (Nude), (oil on canvas)

Kassi, Marigo, Tightrope, (oil on canvas)

Filopoulou, Maria, Swimmers, (oil on canvas)

Baillon, Agnes, Head (resin)

From a different angle

 

 



Baillon, Agnes, Untitled (bronze)

 

 

Russell, Victoria, Victoria Park, (oil on canvas)

Michali, Olivia, (oil on canvas)

Michali, Olivia, (oil on canvas)

Mytara, Harikleia, Still Life, (oil on canvas)

Kafida, Ioanna, Self-Portrait, 2011

Kafida, Ioanna, Self-Portrait, 2011

 

Briskola, Soula, Mother Knitting, (oil on canvas)

 

Shi Xiang, Marie, (oil on canvas)

 

 

 

 

Bowl

 

 

Turquoise bowl displayed in the Islamic Museum, an annex of the Benaki.

 

The fine walls of the vessel show the maker's efforts to imitate Chinese ceramics, while the turquoise colour and the conical shape are characteristics of Islamic art. No date was given.

 

I like the form and the colour, but most of all its elegant simplicity.

 

 

 

The 1%

 

 

We came upon this huge boat while we were walking in the marina in Palaion Faliron the other day. It is massive, as big as the ships that take hundreds of passengers to the islands in the summer.

 

 



It's so big that however hard I tried, I could not get all of it in one shot. And it's private.

This is the other half of it.

Next to where this boat was moored, a helicopter pad.

We could not comprehend the need for such a big private boat and such gross conspicuous consumption seemed obscene to us.  It brought home the vast and growing gap between rich and poor in our world today.

And then yesterday morning I read in the Guardian that the latest Oxfam report has shown that the 62 richest billionaires own as much wealth as the poorer half of the world's population and that 1% of people own more wealth than the other 99% combined. In order to reverse this, Oxfam suggests the following: a crackdown on tax dodging; higher investment in public services; higher wages for the low paid.

The Equality Trust have made the following statement: 'Inequality, both globally and also in the UK, is now at staggering levels. We know that such a vast gap between the richest and the rest of us is bad for our economy and society. We now need our politicians to wake up and address this dangerous concentration and power in the hands of so few'.

Hear, hear.