NP17A_18_ Synectron-circle_1972_acrylic on paper laid on wood_ 60.2 x 60.2 cm

Nausica Pastra

The surface as origin, the reasoning as foresight in the work of Nausica Pastra

 

Past

16 December 2017 – 20 February 2018

11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki

Venue

KALFAYAN GALLERIES | ATHENS

11 Haritos Street
106 75 Kolonaki
Athens 

Press Release

Kalfayan Galleries are pleased to announce the representation of the Estate of Nausica Pastra (1921-2011) and to present the first posthumous solo exhibition of the artist’s work in Athens. Titled NAUSICA PASTRA: The surface as origin, the concept as foresight in the work of Nausica Pastra (1921-2011)”, the show opens on Saturday, 16 December, 12.00 – 16.00. It follows on two major retrospectives of Nausica Pastra’s oeuvre at the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki and the Modern Greek Art Museum of the Municipality of Rhodes (both in 2014). The analysis and visual presentation of the ideas in her work is by Emmanuel Mavrommatis, emeritus professor of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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Artists

Nausica Pastra

Nausica Pastra was born in Kalamata, (Peloponnese, Greece) in 1921. In 1957, she attended the sculpture seminar organised by Professor Ewald Mataré at the Sommerakademie in Salzburg, Austria. From 1957 to 1962 she studied sculpture at the atelier of Professor Fritz Wotruba at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, in Vienna, Austria. She obtained a Degree in Sculpture in 1962. From 1967 to 1973 she attended a seminar entitled “Sociology of Art” given by Professor Jean Cassou at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, in Paris, France. She was a corresponding member of the Vereinigung der Bildenden Künstler Wiener Secession. From 1964 onwards, she lived and worked in Paris, France. In 1984 she moved back to Greece and lived and worked in Athens, Thessaloniki and Paris until her death in 2011.

 

Installation Views

NP17A_5_Nausica Pastra_Volumes and organised spaces_1968_ ink on paper_ 40×55 cm
NP17A_4_Nausica Pastra_ Synectron- Square- Circle_Analogiques 1_ 1968-76_ Duraluminum_ 36.5×36.5×6.5 cm
NP17A_20_Synectron-square_ acrylics_ 54 x 54 cm._197