Circular Composition

The artwork " Circular Composition " is part of a larger body of works executed by Alex Mylona in the mid-1970s. Excited by the new materials offered by technology, she continued to experiment using zinc in her new compositions. The artist 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 Mylona 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, she 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).