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Thessaloniki Umbrellas
City art installation on the sea front in Thessaloniki, Greece.
FROM WIKIPEDIA.
In 1988 Zongolopoulos introduced to the audience his signature artwork Umbrellas, a theme repeated the following years. Moreover, in 1993 he presented a solo exhibition during that year's Venice Biennale where his most remarkable exhibit was a hydrokinetic version of his Umbrellas series while two years later he was praised for another Umbrellas version consisting of static group of floating umbrellas based on diagonal axes. Furthermore, the sculpture was placed at the exhibition's entrance thus gaining recognition and publicity. The same year Zongolopoulos won the first place at the competition held for the installation of European artworks at the Council of the European Union's building in Brussels and thus his hydrokenetic work Umbrellas was placed at building's Cour d'honneur.
Sculptures of Zongolopoulos Umbrellas are also placed in Thessaloniki (in Thessaloniki's new seaside and outside Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Palaio Psychiko.
Thessaloniki Umbrellas
City art installation on the sea front in Thessaloniki, Greece.
FROM WIKIPEDIA.
In 1988 Zongolopoulos introduced to the audience his signature artwork Umbrellas, a theme repeated the following years. Moreover, in 1993 he presented a solo exhibition during that year's Venice Biennale where his most remarkable exhibit was a hydrokinetic version of his Umbrellas series while two years later he was praised for another Umbrellas version consisting of static group of floating umbrellas based on diagonal axes. Furthermore, the sculpture was placed at the exhibition's entrance thus gaining recognition and publicity. The same year Zongolopoulos won the first place at the competition held for the installation of European artworks at the Council of the European Union's building in Brussels and thus his hydrokenetic work Umbrellas was placed at building's Cour d'honneur.
Sculptures of Zongolopoulos Umbrellas are also placed in Thessaloniki (in Thessaloniki's new seaside and outside Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and Palaio Psychiko.