The Exhibition is titled Gods Becoming Men,curated by Art Historian, Edward Lucie-Smith. It will take place at the Frissiras Museum in Athens during the Olympics.

 

Olympic Cities - Gods Becoming Men

Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith

14th July-12th Sept during the Olympics

Frissiras Museum Athens

3 & 7 Monis Asteriou

Plaka (at the junction of Kydathineon St.)

  

 

Invited artists include Jonathon Webb USA, Maslen & Mehra Australia/UK, Michal Chelbin Israel, Marilene Oliver UK, Fereydoun Ave Iran, Tara Sosrowardoyo Indonesia, Sui Jianguo China,  Per Wizen Sweden, Lars Siltberg Sweden, Genia Chef Russia, Olga Tobreluts Russia, Ivan Pinkava Czechoslovakia, Jivanii RedMark Jamaica, Kim Poor Brasil, Bernadette De Cunha India, Dimitris Yeros Greece, Viktor Koen Greece, Marc Wayland UK, Paul Hodgson UK.

 

Maslen and Mehra

installation

 

The Frissiras Museum coinciding with the 2004 Olympics in Athens,

will present from the 14th July 2004 the group exhibition "Olympic Cities - Gods Becoming Men", a digital art exhibition which will explore human diversity, human fallibility and the beauty of the body.

 

Maslen and Mehras installation, Past Is The Future, will feature a dramatic 14 metre long by 3.5 metre tall panoramic photograph taken inside the Humid Tropics Biome at the Eden Project, Cornwall. The panoramic image will be installed in a circular room at the Frissiras Museum. This image will be evenly lit but, in addition, a series of figures will materialise in light, appearing and disappearing, in different areas of the image by means of powerful projectors. The figures will illuminate the parts of the image onto which they are projected.

  

 

'Based on work already done as part of their (Maslen & Mehra) residency at the Eden Project in Cornwall, it features a pair of figures - one male one female - who magically appear and then disappear in a jungle of foliage. The installation suggests that if human beings are in any sense god-like, it is only when they are most fully integrated with the idea of nature.'

 

  

Edward Lucie-Smith

Excerpt Art & Australia magazine September issue

 

 

 

"Our work primarily concerns itself with the meeting point of nature and culture. That is why we have engaged with the Eden Project in Cornwall UK. Eden focuses on the relationship between people and plants and the environment. The imagery there is very striking; a lush tropical rainforest enclosed in a sci-fi architectural wonder."

 

Maslen & Mehra

 

 

 

For more information regarding this exhibition and Maslen & Mehras' installation visit  website: http://www.voidgallery.com/GBM.htm  and http://www.voidgallery.com/godsbecomingmen.htm

 

 

Useful Information

 

 

 

To receive printable images please contact kay.davis@freedomnames.co.uk

 

  

 

tel: +30 2103234678 - 2103316027

 

e-mail: info@frissirasmuseum.com

 

www.frissirasmuseum.com/en

 

  

 

Edward Lucie-Smith www.arttomorrow.co.uk

 

  

 

Access to Museum:

 

Metro stations: Syntagma / Acropolis / Monastiraki

 

Bus/Trolley bus stop: Syntagma

 

  

 

Opening Hours:

 

  

 

Wednesday - Thursday: 11am - 7pm

 

Friday - Saturday - Sunday: 11am - 5pm

 

Monday - Tuesday: Closed