2016 - Νew exhibit at our Museum

To mark the Museum's sixth year we have chosen to present works from Costas Tsoclis's "Elements for the creation of possible masterpieces", a unity of pieces conceived and realised for the occasion of the artist's 85th year and presented at a special event organised this winter in his honour by the Athens Megaron Concert Hall.

In the second area, a space dedicated to autobiographical texts, we have added the portrait of the artist's mother, painted in 1956.

In the third area, works done in Rome and Paris from 1958 to 1963, the period when the artist was seeking his identity in the realm of art.

We present screenings of Thanasis Lalas's conversation with Tsoclis, "What, the How and the Why of creations", which was filmed during the Athens Megaron event honouring him.

Also on exhibit are the designs for "Sisyphos", executed in 2015 and presented in Italy at the Fondazione Alberto Burri.

In the Museum cafeteria we are showing works inspired by the landscape of Tinos in 1992.

Art workshops for children: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 18:30 – 20:30

The Museum is open from 10:00 to 14:00, and from 18:00 to 21:00, every day, except Tuesdays.

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No. The works you have seen, or will see, are not the first created by the artist.

For Tsoclis the adventure of Art began in 1938, when he was eight years old.

These are his first effective works, which he signed and exhibited, some of them done in Rome, others later in Paris.

And no, these are not his last, since the adventure continues. His latest works are dedicated to erotic love and it is hoped that one day they too will be shown.

The works on exhibition here are part of those shown this past winter at the Athens Megaron Concert Hall on the occasion of the artist's 85th year. In this unity of paintings the artist, acknowledging his inability to recognize the masterpiece through painting, proposed as a work of Art, the elements with which a masterpiece might be created.

 Another space is dedicated exclusively to Tsoclis's love for the island of Tinos.

 The word, written or spoken, but above all pictured, unites like an endless chain the numberless proposals and judgements          that the artist has made thoughout his long and restless course.

 Chrysanthi Koutsouraki