At 21, avenue du Maine is one of the many artists’ cities of Montparnasse. It was built with materials from the 1900 Universal Exhibition, just like the Beehive. It is found in quarries dating back 49 million years. At that time a warm sea covered Paris. Sand and shells will form limestone over time.

In 2007, other “shells”, with the meeting of the past, the present and millennial mythologies, revisited by Niki Papatheochari, opens in this place of Mont Parnasse strewn with artistic memory, a new ambition brings: The creation of a indelible link between Greek and French artists to revive the myths that artists from around the world have borne and testified in this district in the 20th century.

Jean Digne, Georges Viaud and Niki Papatheochari