Atelier Spyros Vassiliou in Athens, Aegean Sea, Greece, provides a space for viewing the Greek environment, natural and constructed, as seen through the eyes of an artist who loved and was deeply involved in the world around him, the city, the countryside and the sea, as well as the people and the things which inhabited them and gave them life.
The Atelier Spyros Vassiliou will attempt to maintain the artist?s engaged outlook in the variety of its activities. The artist?s family, art professionals and friends of Spyros Vassiliou will work closely together to create a hospitable, stimulating, educational and open space in Athens, Aegean Sea, to exhibit and sustain the artist?s milieu and its heritage.
The Atelier Spyros Vassiliou also seeks and supports the work of young artists, promote new ideas and illuminate the personality and life-style of Spyros Vassiliou and his wife and constant companion, Kiki, whose dream to create this museum has become a reality.
The Atelier Spyros Vassiliou attempts to enrich the image of Spyros Vassiliou the painter with the complement of devotional painter, engraver, stage designer, graphic artist, decorator, author-critic, teacher in a series of thematic exhibitions, publications and educational programmes for children and adults. Another objective is that the Atelier?s function, by means of a long-term research programme, should result in the publication of a comprehensive catalogue of all his works, currently dispersed in private and public collections both in Greece and abroad.
Atelier Spyros Vassiliou concurrently opens its doors to young artists, organizing meetings, exhibitions and competitions, aiming at continuing in the tradition of a venue which was always open to the young, offering a haven for their concerns and support in their efforts to map their individual artistic course.
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