The painter and Professor at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens, Sotiris Sorogkas, presents a series of works depicting ruins of windmills and sea wood from boats, vessels, and rust.

These are the same themes he has been exploring since his student days in the 1950s. Back then, for the first time in the summer of 1957, he visited as a student of the School of Fine Arts “the paradisiacal Hydra praised by those who knew it,” as he describes in the introductory text of his exhibition. He continues:

“The inexplicable charm of Hydra had strangely unsettled me to a great extent. Perhaps it was the aura in the mansion of Tombazis, where I was hosted as a student, perhaps the dreamlike shipyard in ‘Mandraki’ with its modest ship carpenters, or even the sacredness of a mysterious and serene atmosphere that prevailed at the Monastery of Prophet Elias, at the very top of an irrevocable beauty. I do not know what else, but this encounter with Hydra led me to a redefinition of the value certainties that constituted me at that time.”

The opening of the exhibition will take place on Saturday, July 5, 2025, at 8:00 p.m.

The exhibition will be introduced by:

Dina Adamopoulou, President of the GAK / I.A.M.Y. Organization
Art Historian Giorgos Mylonas
Erifyli Sorogka

Exhibition Credits
Organized by: Historical Archive-Museum of Hydra
Exhibition Curator: Sotiris Sorogas, George Mylonas, Maria Lyratzi
Museum Curator: Maria Lyratzi

Exhibition Duration: 5 July– 30 July 2025