A New Beginning - Spyros Vassiliou’s very large and many-sided output has found a living place that will provide points of reference for the researcher, the art-lover, the student of art and the young.

The new museum provides a space for viewing the Greek environment, natural and constructed, as seen through the eyes of an artist who loved and was deeply involved in the world around him: the city, the countryside and the sea, as well as the people and the things which inhabited them and gave them life.

The Atelier Spyros Vassiliou will attempt to maintain the artist’s engaged outlook in the variety of its activities. The artist’s family, art professionals and friends of Spyros Vassiliou will work closely together to create a hospitable, stimulating, educational and open space to exhibit and sustain the artist’s milieu and its heritage.


The Atelier also seeks and supports the work of young artists, promote new ideas and illuminate the personality and life-style of Spyros Vassiliou and his wife and constant companion, Kiki, whose dream to create this museum has become a reality.

 

“Full stop and paragraph” are the words Father used for ending the book “Lights & Shadows”. The time has come for us to begin the next paragraph by creating the “Atelier Spyros Vassiliou” in our paternal home under the Acropolis and at his “mantrotoihos” gallery in Eretria, in the hope that his work will become known to younger and future generations. Although he himself had never expressed the wish that his home would become a museum -it was more of our Mother’s dream- we feel obliged to preserve his legacy at his two ateliers with numerous events.

“I built houses, gardens, had children and grandchildren…” so he used to often say, so we continue…