Tuesday 19 July 2011

Black and White at the Frissiras Museum




The Frissiras Museum in Plaka is an extraordinary place. It used to be a group of dwellings built around a central courtyard with a well in the middle.



In 2000 it was all converted into a museum by architect Alaxandros Tobazis. The courtyard is now an atrium with exhibition rooms all around.




The original balconies of the dwellings are still here



this is the second floor and you can walk all around it



the third floor,  and the glass roof that now covers the old courtyard




The current exhibition is 'black and white'




Paula Rego, the Jane Eyre series, The Guardians - Up in the Tree



Paula Rego, Jane Eyre, Poetry and Story - Crying



Nikos Kessanlis, Untitled




Nikos Kessanlis, Untitled




Xenofon Bitsikas, Diptych




Vasso Katraki, Untitled




David Hockney, Untitled




David Hockney, Untitled.


Isn't the blue light created by the glass roof, extraordinary? The pictures in the atrium have this blue hue, and as for Ken standing on the balcony, he looks absolutely luminous - such a contrast with the pictures in the main exhibition rooms!




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