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For over fifty years Eleni Vernadaki created hundreds of object-forms, radically renewing ceramic art in Greece during the second half of the 20th century.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eleni Vernadaki studied ceramics at Hammersmith College of Art and Building in London (1957-1959). She returned to Greece at the end of 1959 and opened a workshop in the centre of Athens (20 Solonos Street), which in 1974 was moved to a building in Kantza, which had been specially designed by the architect Takis Zenetos. In 1961 she became part of\u00a0Art Group A<\/a>\u00a0which aimed to promote art to the wider public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1968 to 2015 she ran the\u00a0Athens Design Center – adc<\/a>, which she founded with her husband, Nikos Papadakis, and which became a focal point and a dynamic hub of activity, displaying and promoting works to the public that proposed an inspired union of the handmade ceramic art object and modern life. She was also one of the founding members of the Modern Art Society (SYST) and served as general secretary. She exhibited her works in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For over fifty years Eleni Vernadaki created hundreds of object-forms, radically renewing ceramic art in Greece during the second half of the 20th century. In her early works eclectic references to local ceramic tradition and ancient Greek vases emerged. At the same time, however, in the course of her career, the dominant feature in her works was to be the dynamic development of the principles of 20th-century ceramic \u201cmodernism\u201d, while she would also produce works that were a distinct expression of the field described as \u201cconceptual ceramics\u201d. A common thread in her creative progress was to be the exploration of concept itself and the limits of ceramic art and of the handmade artistic object in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vernadaki would finally manage to overcome the distinction, firstly, between \u201chigh\u201d and \u201cminor\u201d art and, secondly, between the utilitarian and non-utilitarian object. In the spirit of the studio ceramics in which she was trained, she was not bound by the standardized forms or uses of a ceramic work and approached ceramics as a \u201ccomponent expression of the visual arts\u201d as she herself described it \u2013 as an art form, the quality of which is defined by continuous technical, formal and intellectual exploration on the part of the artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her prolific work we also find other inspired applications of her artistic exploration, such as table-forms, daring jewellery\/non-jewellery and many more, where in addition to clay she exploited the properties of materials such as marble, wood, various metals and even plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also worked on architectural applications of ceramics, designing and producing wall compositions for public and private buildings, at the same time working with Yiannis Moralis, Panayiotis Tetsis, Michalis Katzourakis and Dimitris Mytaras, to transfer their designs to ceramic compositions. On whatever scale she worked, Eleni Vernadaki approached the artistic act as a unified intellectual and skilled process which gives form to material and materializes form, beyond the conventional classifications of the arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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