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The wax statue museum of Pavlos Vrellis
Greece, Ioannina, april 26, 2005. On our way to the Vrellis museum we stopped in Ioannina.
An old house, probably once damaged in an earthquake. Often such houses are left there standing until the family has gathered enough money to repair them.
This one was opposite the street.
In the garden of the Vrellis museum.
I had a conversation with this man. He was a professor and an artist, he told me in a mixture of German and English. An idea came to my mind.
"What's your name?" I asked.
"Pavlos Vrellis," he replied.
I shook his hand enthousiastically. My friend Yorgos had written once that mister Vrellis has the habit of walking around his museum. And indeed.
The museum is built in the the typical style for northern Greece. In the beautiful Zagoria (on the other side of Ioannina) there are many of such houses, and also on mount Pilion, on the eastern coast between Thessaloniki and Athens.
Here the scene that Yorgos describes in his article:
"Undoubtedly the favourite scene is the Murder of Ali Pasha. Set in Ali's monastery hideaway, it features "kra Vassiliki" Ali's Greek wife, walking serenely away from a comically gory scene, a severed head at her feet. In one corner, a man looks in horror at his realistically-rendered severed foot, while overhead, Ali's headless body hangs over a balcony."
The serene smile of lady Vassiliki can be explained as a symbolic preview of the Greek independance from Turkey, not long afterwards.
And outside the flowers are still blooming.
Onno - july 22, 2005, 22:22 - No comments
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