page_title: George Zongolopoulos
section_title: Umbrellas
hierarchical_section_title: George Zongolopoulos / Biography / Umbrellas
caption_attribution_description: Ελληνικά: Ο Γιώργος Ζογγολόπουλος μπροστά στο υδροκινητικό έργο του "Ομπρέλες" στο κτήριο του Συμβουλίου των Υπουργών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης στις Βρυξέλλες, 1995
context_page_description: George Zongolopoulos was an important Greek sculptor, painter and architect. Zongolopoulos, who was often called the “eternal teenager” was a representative of the so-called “Generation of 1930s” while his work extends from the 1920s until his late life.
context_section_description: In 1988 Zongolopoulos introduced to the audience his signature artwork Umbrellas, a theme repeated the following years. Moreover, in 1993 he presented a solo exhibition during that year's Venice Biennale where his most remarkable exhibit was a hydrokinetic version of his Umbrellas series while two years later he was praised for another Umbrellas version consisting of a static group of floating umbrellas based on diagonal axes. Furthermore, the sculpture was placed at the exhibition's entrance thus gaining recognition and publicity. The same year Zongolopoulos won the first place at the competition held for the installation of European artworks at the Council of the European Union's building in Brussels and thus his hydrokenetic work Umbrellas was placed at building's Cour d'honneur.
  Sculptures of Zongolopoulos Umbrellas are also placed in Thessaloniki (in Thessaloniki's new seaside and outside Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art) and Palaio Psychiko.
caption: Zongolopoulos in front of his artwork Umbrellas in Brussels
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