The Kiss - Homage to Brancusi

Alex Mylona pays tribute to one of the most important modernist sculptors, Constantin Brancusi, and to one of his most emblematic and recognizable compositions, The Kiss, which he created in many variations, each time leading to ever greater abstract formations of the form. The sculptor feels close to the simplicity, purity and geometry of the Romanian artist. Moreover, the theme of this particular sculpture also approaches her own theme. She creates a rigorous, symmetrical composition, exploiting the qualities and quality, the shine and texture of marble, managing to crystallize in a unique way the sense of contact and union between the two forms. During this period, Alex Mylonas, although working mainly in iron, used for this work Penteli marble, a material with which she had experimented in some of her compositions in the 1950s. She would return to marble, after some 20 years, in the 1980s, beginning the last creative period of her sculpture.