The exhibition presents the work of the well-known artist Opy Zuni / 1941-2008. 

This retrospective tribute by the Benaki Museum to the artist’s creative life, which spanned almost 50 years (1960-2008), includes representative examples from the wide range of her artistic career.

Opy Zouni / "Order in Chaos" Exhibition at Benaki Museum in Athens until 26/02/2017

Opy Zouni / "Order in Chaos" Exhibition at Benaki Museum in Athens until 26/02/2017

The presentation is supplemented by an installation-video of eight minutes, titled Columns-Shadows, and images taken from the four elements of nature: earth, air, water and fire, which run through her subject matter, constructing and deconstructing the compositions of her works.  

Opy Zouni / "Order in Chaos" Exhibition at Benaki Museum in Athens until 26/02/2017

Opy Zouni was one of the most important representatives of postwar geometric abstract art and neo-constructivist rationale of the second half of the 20th century. Having dual heritage (Greek-Egyptian), with a strong classical education, she adopted geometric structure and abstract mathematical thinking along with the modern conceptions of art she had encountered on hermany trips abroad.

Opy Zouni / "Order in Chaos" Exhibition at Benaki Museum in Athens until 26/02/2017

The focus of her exploration was the mental and, at the same time, emotional space, our familiar physical space.

Opy Zouni / "Order in Chaos" Exhibition at Benaki Museum in Athens until 26/02/2017

In Opy Zouni’s work art and science are inextricably linked. Science for her meant the investigation of reality while art was the expression of beauty. She used geometry as a door from the material world to the spiritual and created a virtual reality using Renaissance perspective freely, with one or more vanishing points. She walked a line between dream, fantasy and reality, logic and sensitivity, a scientific mathematical approach and spontaneity.

Opy Zouni / "Order in Chaos" Exhibition at Benaki Museum in Athens until 26/02/2017

Opy Sarpaki Zouni was born in Cairo in 1941. Her family roots originate in Crete and Santorini. She lived and worked since 1963 in Athens. She has died after she lost her battle with cancer on 5th December 2008.If you are in Athens or you plan to visit the Greek capital soon, do not miss her exhibition at Benaki museum

*A short Video Art about her work Ramle in Form

Exhibition curator: Eleni Athanassiou

Duration

22/12/2016 - 26/02/2017 (Opening: 19/12/2016, 20:00)

Place

Athens

Benaki Museum138 Pireos & Andronikou St.

Tickets

€7, €3,5

Working Hours
Thursday & Sunday: 10:00 - 18:00
Friday & Saturday: 10:00 - 22:00

Closed on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 

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