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EXHIBITIONS
New exhibition
“If trees
could speak…”
On display till May 2012(ground floor)
Simos Athanassiades, age 8
The
exhibition displays 82 paintings and three- dimensional artworks by children
from all over Greece,
entries to a nation- wide School Art Competition organized by the Educational Programme OIKADE of the Bank of Cyprus
with the collaboration of the Museum of Greek Children’s Art during the 2010 –
11 school year.
Art became the incentive and the means by which children were brought to think over
the value of a tree and that of a forest as source of life, to consider the
dangers that threaten it and ways by which we can protect it.In the
artworks on show the tree takes a human aspect, it becomes a refuge, it offers
its riches, it participates in children’s games, it answers man’s wishes
yet it also gets hurt, it asks for help,
it is mercilessly and irrationally exploited, it rebels and takes revenge.
Paper, one
of the basic riches offered by a tree, becomes a major element of creativity
and inspiration. It is cut up, crumpled, drawn upon, painted, printed in view
of being transformed, through the image and the power of the language of art,
once more into a tree.
Sponsor of the Exhibition
Educational
Programme OIKADE of the Bank of Cyprus
“A child’s right to expression. I want to….”
On display till May 2012
(on the first floor)
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"I want to hear good news"
Myrto Davari & Rea-Christina Meleniou, age 10
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The exhibition presents 116 works of art by children 5-12 years old from Kindergarten and Primary Schools of A and B’ Athens Primary Education Directorate and Primary Education Directorate of West Attica, as well as from the Museums art workshops.
In the Convention of Children’s Rights adopted unanimously by the United Nations Assembly General on November 20th, 1989, articles 13 and 31 state among other rights that The child must have freedom of expression through any means of his choice. The child has the right to play, to rest, to be given time to participate actively in cultural and artistic activities he best likes.
Papers, colours, pencils and brushes were simply the means by which children expressed themselves allowing adults to read their minds. Children invite us to behold the truth as it is being revealed through art.
An image advances beyond speech and words. .Elements of everyday life become symbols, plain thoughts turn into loud cries, feelings are changed into needs and desires.
Children require a world of beauty, they require harmony and respect of all living creatures, they require the right to dream, but above all they require recognition and acceptance of their unique personality.
Please I don’t want you to crush my personality!
Donor
"Hand in hand with Miro"
On display till 31st of July 2011
(on the first floor)
Athina Angeli, age 12
The exhibition “ Hand in hand with Miro ” presents artwork by children 5 to 13 years old created during three and eight month long workshops organized by the Museum in its premises.
Children were given the opportunity to view works of art by the great masters, to comment and assimilate a number of his symbols. In the manner of Miro, children made use of powerful outlines, bright, strong colours creating unusual human figures, strange animal forms, and imaginative spaces.
Walking on edge between dreams and reality, children played with drawing materials, they elaborated designs of the artist combining in one image elements of his works with those of their own imagination.
Children regarded Miro as an artist of infinite shapes, innumerable symbols, as an artist immerged in colours but above all as someone floating in the world of dreams.
The exhibition is presented under the auspices of the Spanish Embassy in Athens and with the support of the Cervantes Institute.
Exclusive Sponsor of the Exhibition
NATIONAL BANK OF GREECE
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