Alimos gallery

Mater et Filius 

at the Municipal Gallery, Alimos.

An unusual exhibition as the two artists are mother and son.

Ktistopoulou was born in Athens, and studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. Her work is exhibited in numerous galleries across Greece. She taught painting and drawing at AKTO Art and Design School of Graphics for six years.

Sotiris was born in Athens, and studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He teaches at the University of West Attica.

Adrianos Sotiris, Back, 2004

Maria Ktistopoulou, Study of a Man, 1976, (mixed media and wood on canvas)

Maria Ktistopoulou, The Gaze, 1988, (mixed media on canvas)

Adrianos Sotiris, Fauve, 2007, (oil on canvas)

Maria Ktistopoulou, Two Portraits of Adrianos, 1990, (charcoal on paper)

Maria Ktistopoulou, Olive Tree, 2009, (oil on canvas)

Maria Ktistopoulou, (oil on canvas)

Adrianos Sotiris, Newton's Degree, 2018, (plaster, wood, magnets, loudspeaker and LEGO)

Maria Ktistopoulou, Naked Forest, 2007, (oil on canvas)

Adrianos Sotiris, What is There, 2021, (oil on canvas)

Maria Ktistopoulou, Tribute to Bacon, 1986, (mixed media, with paper on canvas)

Adrianos Sotiris, Portrait of my Mother, 2003, (oil on canvas)

Adrianos Sotiris, Portrait of my Mother, 2003, (oil on canvas)

Adrianos Sotiris, Still Life - Symbiosis, 2019, (oil on canvas)

Maria Ktistopoulou, Breakfast, 2005, (oil on canvas)

Adrianos Sotiris, Nude with Mirror, 2019, (oil on canvas)

Jellyfish

Ken was stung by a jellyfish and this is what his arm looks like nine days later.

When you get stung it feels like a massive electric shock and that is quite scary if you are far away into the sea, which he was. The whole of his arm went very red. We went to the beach nurse who put some cream on it. (He continued with the cream for two days). After a few hours it stopped hurting, but the redness persisted, and these marks, where the tentacles wrapped around his arm, remain.

When I was a kid we used to get stung all the time, it was just part of going swimming but it has not happened to me for years and years. Destructive human activity driven by selfishness and greed has brought havoc to the whole the planet, including the seas, and there are not as many jellyfish as there used to be. I remember swimming with jellyfish all around me - when you have a passion for the sea and swimming nothing will deter you - but now I have not seen one for years.

The main issue is that it could dent your confidence and put you off swimming so you have to try hard not to think about it and continue regardless.

This is where it happened. Apparently quite a few people have been stung in the last few days.

Ceramics at the Benaki Shop

The shop of the Hadjikyriakou-Ghika annex of the Benaki Museum.

I was very pleasantly surprised when I visited last week as their selection of ceramic pieces for sale has grown and there were quite a few new artists, some of whom I did not know.

Iosifina Kosma:

I do know Kosma's work, and it's featured in this blog before, you can see some of it here

a different view

Thomais Kontou:

Katerina Giannaka:

Manos Kalamenios:

Theodora Horafa:

Nikomachi Karakostanoglou and Ilias Papayliakis:

Antonia Lekatsa:

Leoni Giagdzoglou:

Eleni Kanelopoulou:

Giorgos Vavatsis:

Melina Xenaki: