Rare, 1927, 1928, 1929, SIGNED, 2 Books, Nikos Velmos, Frangelio, First Edition, Greek Avant-Garde Magazine

Description

2 Volumes of 

Greek Avant-Garde Art Magazine 

To Frangelio (The Whip)

1. Το Φραγγέλιο – To Frangelio

     που το βγάζει ο Βέλμος

     Χρόνος Πρώτος

     1927

    Volume 1

    The Whip

     Published by Velmos

     First Year 

     1927

     Issues 1-52, weekly

2. Το Φραγγέλιο – To Frangelio

    που το βγάζει ο Βέλμος  

    Χρόνος Β & Γ

    1928, 1929

     Volume 2

     The Whip

     Published by Velmos

     Second & Third Year 

     1928, 1929

      monthly

     Self-Published by Nikos Velmos, Athens in 1927

     Both books are signed and dedicated by Velmo’s sister Ariadni Velmou

     Original Paper Binding

     208 Pages (Volume 1)

     208 Pages (Volume 2)

     21.4 cm x 28.3 cm 

First Edition

Nikos Velmos (1890 -1930) was a Greek actor, writer, painter, magazine publisher and art gallery founder. His work and ideas were an original blend of revolution, anarchy, socialism, Christianity and Greek avant-garde.

On December 25, 1926, he began publishing the magazine Frangelio, which contributed greatly to the intellectual life of Athens during his time and through which he also exercised intense criticism. His collaborators were Stratis Doukas, Fotis Kontoglou, Giannoulis Chalepas, Anastasios Drivas, Takis Papatsonis, Galatia Kazantzaki, Tefkros Anthias, etc. Initially, it was published as a four-page weekly newspaper, while in 1928 it was converted into a sixteen-page monthly. Its publication ended in the spring of 1929. 

In addition to the main publication of Frangelio, in 1927, Velmos also published the Art Sheets of Frangelio, with portraits-monographs of Greek and international artists: Domenikos Theotokopoulos, Beethoven, Giannoulis Chalepas are just some of Velmos’ thematic publications-dedications for his “uneducated artists”, as he defined them but also as “uneducated” he defined himself. Unstoppable, Velmos upsets Athens for good and recharges his conflict with the ruling class, when in 1928 he opens an art space on the ground floor of his house, at 21 Nikodimou Street in Plaka. At the Art Asylum, a space designed by the architect Konstantinos Kakiouzis and the painter and decorator Johan Romanos, Nikos Velmos held exhibitions of well-known artists (Yiannoulis Chalepas and Dimitris Galanis), as well as educational exhibitions such as the one for Domenikos Theotokopoulos, with printed reproductions of works and copies created for the exhibition by well-known Greeks. In such an exhibition of “uneducated” artists in 1928, Yiannis Tsarouchis also exhibited for the first time. The promotion and presentation of untaught or untutored artists, like all the activities of the Art Asylum, had not a commercial but an artistic character.