A proposition for a War Memorial

"A proposition for a War Memorial" belongs to the artworks that Alex Mylonas worked on in the mid-1970s. Excited by the new materials offered by technology, she continues to experiment using zinc in her new compositions. The creator starts from a flat surface, a rectangular, thin sheet of zinc or stainless steel. The plate then bends, folds, folds, cuts, curves, conquers the third dimension, occupies space and imposes itself on it with the intensity and dynamics of its movement, the glossiness and reflections of its surface. It is characteristic that Alex Mylonas treated these compositions as models for architectural interventions, buildings and monuments that could be realized in her personal Utopia, an artists' village in Mesogeia, Attica. These are proposals for an airport, a museum-school, a memorial to the fallen, a circular theatre, a petrol station, a church, a public urinal or a pavilion at an international exhibition. At the same time, he considered that these compositions could sometimes, depending on their form, function as utilitarian objects or unexpected accessories (e.g. a guard box or a helmet).