Art Exhibitions
Exhibition by Antonio Milana
Wordless Stories
16 - 23 July, Patmion Cultural Center
Exhibition opening 16 July, 19.00 • PATMION CULTURAL CENTRE
Open to the Public from 16 to 22 July
“Wordless Stories” brings together a series of small-scale works on paper created by Antonio Milana over many years. Through the use of reclaimed and repurposed materials, the artist transforms fragments of everyday life into poetic compositions that carry traces of time, memory, and lived experience.
Reflecting on decay, consumption, and the human condition, these works invite viewers to reconsider the value of reuse and the enduring power of art to give new life to forgotten objects. The exhibition highlights Milana’s ability to construct personal and collective narratives through material, mark, and form, allowing each work to speak through its own quiet presence. It is an invitation to engage in a slow and contemplative dialogue, where silence becomes language and memory is transformed into a living experience.
“Macro work n° 1”
Acrylic and collage on paper
Cm 29 x 30
Year – 2019
“I miss your silence”
Acrylic, ink and collage on paper
Cm 47 x 51
Year 2025
“Island of hope”
Acrylic, ink and collage on paper
Cm 66,5 x 45,5
Born in Rome in 1958, Antonio Milana has developed a multifaceted artistic practice that began with music and experimental sound research before evolving into a deeply personal visual language. His experiences in London and New York, where he encountered the experimental and avant-garde currents of the 1970s and 1980s, helped shape an approach rooted in the relationship between sign, memory, materiality, and space. Presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, his work is distinguished by an ongoing investigation of the trace as a vehicle for experience, meaning, and narrative.
Photographic Exhibition by Maria Pavlaki
Something of Their Own
16 - 23 July, Patmion Cultural Center
Exhibition opening 16 July, 19.00 • PATMION CULTURAL CENTRE
Open to the Public from 16 to 23 July
What remains from a brief encounter with a stranger? A glance, an expression, a gesture, or a fleeting thought that seems to transcend time and touch something deeply personal. Maria Pavlaki’s exhibition Something of Their Own unfolds within this space of closeness, where photography becomes a means of recognition and connection.
Through a series of portraits and human moments, viewers are invited to stand before the subjects not merely as observers, but as participants in a silent dialogue. Each person tells their own story, inviting viewers to connect with it or recognize a part of themselves within it: a moment, an emotion, a memory, or an unspoken story that, for a brief instant, becomes their own.
Pavlaki’s photographs focus on people who inhabit public space with a distinct sense of presence. People of different ages, backgrounds, and personal histories are revealed through her lens as carriers of desire, memory and lived experience. In a world increasingly inclined to homogenize faces and gestures, Pavlaki seeks out what is singular, fragile and irreducibly unique. Her gaze resists the speed of contemporary life, insisting instead on attentive observation.
Born in Athens, Maria Pavlaki devoted a significant part of her life to education while maintaining a long and consistent photographic practice, shaped by her studies with the Photographic Circle and her mentorship under Platon Rivellis. Since the early 1990s, she has participated in exhibitions in Greece and abroad, developing a body of work that spans portraiture, public space, the human body, theatre and social observation. Something on Their Own, both the title of this exhibition and its accompanying publication, presents a thirty-year body of analogue photographic work rooted in lived experience and sustained human encounter. Her long-standing engagement with people has cultivated a sensitive and empathetic perspective, reflected in images that move beyond representation and become spaces of emotional and existential exploration.