Volakas

The sculpture "Volakas" belongs to a series of sculptures in marble executed by Alex Mylonas in 1984, having previously developed the series of drawings "4 drawings for marble sculptures". It is the period when the artist works with thin slabs of white marble, presenting abstract compositions that are distinguished by their geometric simplicity and rigour. She feels that marble - and more specifically the marble she chooses, coming from the quarries of Dionysos, outside Athens, a material inextricably linked to art in the Attic land - expresses her perfectly, since she appreciates that it is a material that is unadorned, alive and shining, which has its own independence and is not suited to complex shapes that would hide its beauty. The work refers for the first time to a real natural space, Volakas in Tinos. Through the assembly of curved shapes, it attempts to describe the corresponding sense of geomorphology that dominates the lunar landscape of Volakas.