The work Melodic Rays, by Athena Politopoulou-Kargsten – a kind donation by the sculptress – is located at the entrance of Megaron the Athens Concert Hall since April.
Her creation has found the place she had envisioned from the very beginning:
“The opening of the Megaron in 1991 filled me with joy that Athens would finally have its own music space! It was the period when I was experimenting through multiple designs and materials to render the abstractness of music with sculptural forms.
The work Melodic Rays of 1992 was a continuation of earlier sculptures in wood, marble and Plexiglas with female bodies in dance movement. This work, in plexiglass, steel and iron, was the result of both my enthusiasm for the completion of Megaron the Athens Concert Hall and my quest to express musicality through sculpture.
In the end I seem to have succeeded, as all those who wrote about my work distinguished it as being imbued with lyricism and an invisible power of music, with the leading figure being Simon Fryer who wrote: “It is impossible to contemplate Athena’s triads, her chords, unless one also hears them as musical tones.”
I am happy and proud that my work Melodic Rays, 32 years after its creation, finds a home in the place that inspired it!”
Athena Politopoulou-Carsten
Megaron the Athens Concert Hall thanks her for her kind donation.
