Birth of Aphrodite Ι

"The Birth of Aphrodite I" is a smaller-scale variant of "The Birth of Aphrodite", one of the artworks with which Alex Mylonas participated in the Venice Biennale in 1960, representing Greece. The artworks she presented were a series of compositions in wrought iron painted in black, dominated by strict stillness, the relationship between lines and flat form, proposing a new arrangement of space and surface. During this period, the artist has assimilated the codes of abstract art and with the presentations of her artworks she has made a decisive contribution to the imposition of abstraction in Greek art. With a composition such as Aphrodite, Alex Mylona comes to formulate her vital relationship with the world, to combine ancient myths with the principles of Modernism, to reflect on the nature and possibilities of plastic art.