Nikos Alexiou – Lizzie Calligas
23rd Biennale of Alexandria 2005

The two artists both being of a different generation, were chosen by the Ministry of Culture, as the Greek participation in the 23rd Biennale of Alexandria. They exhibited together for the first time. Although their works don’t seem to match, they share a common element: both of them present the idea of immaterial light as material. Lizzie Calligas was awarded the Biennale’s most honoured distinction The Golden Light of Alexandria for her series of big black and white photographs Swimmers. Nikos Alexiou created an installation putting together many of his works thus creating a retrospective exhibition under the general title Angel Rolling up the Heavens (2005).

Nikos Alexiou 1960-2011. Lizzie Calligas lives and works in Spetses, Greece

Text: Alexandra Koroxenidis, Christina Petrinou
Design: Poppy Alexiou, Christina Petrinou, Eleni Saroglou

Sizes: 185×215 mm and 215×185 mm
Pages: 72 and 68
Illustrations: 28 and 49 photographs
Format: Softcover, Box
Languages: English, Greek
Edition: 2000 copies

2005

ISBN: 960-87354-6-7