The Teloglion Foundation of Arts presents from Tuesday 8 October the exhibition “Cities of Lost Memory” by Alexandre Mitchell, following its successful presentation at the Full Circle Cultural Centre in Brussels.

The exhibition presents more than 20 drawings, in Indian ink, with themes relating to historical events and personalities, highlighting difficult aspects of history and aiming to provoke debate and discussion.

Alexandre Mitchell, like the archaeologist he is, brings the remnants of the past to life, connecting them to the present, proposing an alternative tour of history from his own personal point of view.

A short Bio

Alexandre Mitchell was born in 1974 in Oxford to a British father and a French mother, and grew up in Flanders and Brussels. He studied in Strasbourg and Oxford and travelled extensively as part of his research in classical archaeology. For the last twenty years he has been teaching, writing and lecturing on Greek and Roman archaeology. He is a member of many associations, networks and groups on antiquity.

The drawing is part of the archaeologist’s toolkit, but Alex became more creative with it during the coronavirus outbreak. It was then that he realised the urgent and imperative need for accurate knowledge of the facts, because the world was rampant with uncontrolled information, exaggeration, conspiracy theories and misinformation. His works deal with historical events and personalities, present difficult aspects of history and aim to provoke debate and discussion.

The artistic process

Alexandre Mitchell draws with Indian ink on white paper. He is fascinated by the inversion of white and black, because it seems to reveal the hidden side of things, pulling them out of the past. Each drawing is the result of an often months-long process involving research, systematic reading of books, scholarly articles and websites, numerous preliminary sketches, and sometimes short study trips and visits to museum collections sometimes inaccessible to the public. All of this, little by little, shaped his design and text.

Duration: 08 October– 10 November 2024

Opening Hours: Tuesday 9:00-14:00, Wednesday 17:00-21:00, Thursday 9:00-14:00 & 17:00-21:00, Friday 9:00-14:00, Saturday-Monday closed.