Artist Maria Fragoudaki explores textures in Syros show

Maria Fragoudaki is equally comfortable working small or large scale. For those who got their first taste of the artist's work with the large-scale installation on the facade of the Hotel Grande Bretagne in Syntagma Square in the spring of 2017, her return to canvas should come as no surprise, as she is now ready to show 32 mixed-medium pieces at the Cyclades Gallery in Ermoupoli, on the island of Syros.

Opening on Saturday, "Transformation-Reconstruction-Composition," which is curated by Giorgos Altouvas, has a retrospective character and includes pieces created since 2011, as well as a selection from her "BedSheets" series, on which the Syntagma Square installation was based.

There will also be a display of works by pioneering Greek abstract artists ranging from Yiannis Spyropoulos and Alekos Kontopoulos to Thanos Tsingos, Mario Prassinos, Theodoros Stamos, Yannis...

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