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Athens News Agency: News in English, 09-10-02
CONTENTS
[01] The Giorgio de Chirico Art Center, a cradle of culture in the
heart of Volos
[01] The Giorgio de Chirico Art Center, a cradle of culture in the
heart of Volos
The Giorgio de Chirico Art Center, named after the famous Volos-born
Italian painter, is a cradle of culture in the heart of Greece's third
largest port city, in the central mainland.
The Art Center, situated on a pedestrian walk next to the Municipal
Conservatory, is a new municipal glass building that has been named
after the pre-Surrealist and later Surrealist painter, who was born in
Volos in 1888 to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father, and was the
founder of the scuola metafisica (metaphysical) art movement.
The ground floor, mezzanine and second floor of the Art Center, which
was inaugurated in September 1990, house the Volos Municipal Art
Collection of more than 400 paintings, sculptures, hagiographies,
ceramics, mosaics and artistic photographs, as well as periodical
exhibitions, the fine arts preservation lab, and a small library.
The other two floors house the Alexander Damtsas Museum, a permanent
exhibition of the Volos-born art collector's Collection comprising some
500 paintings and gravures by mostly Greek artists representing all the
important art styles from the late 19th century to the present.
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