Antones Vezirtzis - 1950-1981

Benaki Museum 2008. Brand new. In greek. Soft cover, 23x22 cm, 92 pp., 60 color plates. Exhibition catalogue; presents most of the works included in the exhibition, divided into four categories: abstract landscapes, small sculptures, iron ships and drawings. // Antonis Vezirtzis was born on the island of Zakynthos in 1950. He lived there up to 1969, when he came to Athens. He took drawing classes, did his military service and in 1973 matriculated at the Athens School of Fine Arts, where he studied in the studio of Yiannis Pappas, up to 1979. Already in those years at ASFA he created his first abstract landscapes of plaster and wood, a theme that engaged his interest throughout his short creative life. Towards the end of his life he built large iron ships, which are constructed from well-matched objets trouves, providing, in this manner, a new dimension in the re-use of materials. Beyond these two basic categories of work by Vezirtzis, the exhibition also includes paintings and drawings, as well as a few small sculptures made of plaster and brass. He died in 1981.