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A walk through the Museum with an archaeologist
Evening walks through the Museum exhibition galleries, making unanticipated stops and various discussions, together with an Archaeologist-Host.
1 July, 2016 to 25 December, 2020
Info: For registration, please refer to the Information Desk at the Museum entrance on the same day. First-in first-served.
Venue: Museum's exhibition areas Hours: English: every Friday at 6 p.m. / Greek: every Friday at 8 p.m. Tickets: The gallery talk is free of charge. Only the general admission fee to the Museum is required. Special remarks: Credit cards are accepted Wheelchair accessible
A walk through ancient Olympia
This programme provides a complete tour to the sacred site of ancient Olympia in the 2nd century BC. Monuments and sacred buildings come to life, enabling visitors to participate in the events and the rituals of the Olympic Games and to learn about the history of the city: the temple of Zeus, a model of Doric peripteral temple with magnificent sculpted decoration, the Heraion, the oldest monumental building of the sanctuary, dedicated to the goddess Hera, the Gymnasium, which was used for the training of javelin throwers, discus throwers and runners, the Palaestra, where the wrestlers, jumpers and boxers trained, the Leonidaion, which was where the official guests stayed, the Bouleuterion, where athletes, relatives and judges took a vow that they would upheld the rules of the Games, the Stadium, where most of the events took place, the Treasuries of various cities, where valuable offerings were kept, the Philippeion, which was dedicated by Philip II, king of Macedonia, after his victory in the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC.
1 March, 2017 to 31 December, 2022
Info: A complete digital tour in English to the sacred site of Ancient Olympia in the 2nd century BC.
Special remarks: Parking Reservations are accepted Credit cards are accepted Wheelchair accessible
A Walk Through Ancient Miletus
The city of Miletus on the western coast of Asia Minor, one of the most important cities in Ionia, comes to life again in the Virtual Reality production
“A Walk Through Ancient Miletus”. This production, in the special environment of immersion of “Tholos”, uses some new technical characteristics, which allow the development of multiple directions of digital life in the virtual space and not a predetermined course.
4 September, 2017 to 31 December, 2022
Info: Starting again in September, guided tours are offered in Greek & English for groups.
At the Virtual Reality programme there is a tour at the meninsula and the city of Miletus, as it was 2,000 years ago. Visitors can explore the virtual city and learn about the most important public buildings. Starting from the gate at the Port of the Lions, they enter the sanctuary of Apollo Delphinios. Then, they visit the Ionian Stoa, which housed the stores of the city, the Hellenistic Gymnasium, the North Agora and the Bouleuterion, being able to see even the details of the buildings' architecture. They can “fly” over the city for one last panoramic view of the perfect city planning design, or even “dive” into its port.
Organization / Production: FOUNDATION OF THE HELLENIC WORLD Venue: Tholos, Virtual Reality Theatre Hours: Projections offered only by appointment for groups Special remarks: Parking Reservations are accepted Credit cards are accepted Wheelchair accessible
Dinosaurs at Dusk
Dinosaurs at Dusk is a 44-min show produced by Mirage3D for digital dome theatres. It is presented at "THOLOS", the Virtual Reality Theater of Hellenic Cosmos.
A learning adventure of a father and his teenage daughter Lucy, who share a fascination for all things that fly.
You’ll travel back in time to meet the pterosaurs and the ancestors of modern-day birds: the feathered dinosaurs. Lucy and her father navigate from continent to continent, looking for clues about the origins of flight.
When time runs out they experience first-hand the cataclysmic “last day” of the dinosaurs.
Science content includes topics such as continental drift, proper motion of stars, asteroids and impacts, extinctions and the convergent development of flight among species.
2 March, 2019 to 31 December, 2022
Organization / Production: Venue: Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Centre Special remarks: Parking Reservations are accepted Credit cards are accepted Wheelchair accessible
Anthropocene On Hold
ANTHROPOCENE ON HOLD: PCAI’s online group exhibition opens on May 14, 2020
20 international visual artists address the impact of a global pandemic on art ecosystems and earth’s resilience and sustainability
James Bridle, Ionian Bisai & Sotiris Tsiganos, Matthias Fritsch, Kyriaki Goni, Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller, Hypercomf, Rindon Johnson, Evi Kalogiropoulou, Lito Kattou, Bianca Kennedy and the Swan Collective, Marcin Liminowicz & Trang Ha, Charly Nijensohn, Kosmas Nikolaou, Ira Schneider, Andrew Norman Wilson
14 May, 2020 to 31 December, 2020
Info: The Anthropocene (/ænˈθrɒp.əˌsiːn) was popularised as an environmental term at the dawn of the 21st century by Paul Crutzen, the Dutch Nobel laureate and pioneer on atmospheric chemistry; it constitutes a proposed geological epoch that starts with the beginning of the first important human impact on Earth's geology and ecosystems, including climate change caused by human activity.
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organisation officially declared the outbreak of a new virus, under the name covid-19, a pandemic. The invisible threat has taken its toll on human life and safety, as well as global economy and collective action, forcing isolation or restricted access to public areas as precautionary measures. Vacant, desolate streets and cities in the midst of social distress, financial uncertainty and climate crisis, echo the urban void and the urgency to remain vigilant and socially alert.
During the unsettling times of a global pandemic and national lockdowns, which seem to have emerged out of dystopic fiction, what does it mean for earth and the anthropocene to remain on hold? Which are the challenges and the environmental concerns that are raised for an artist? How can social distancing and quarantine reshape artistic practices and environmental narratives? In which ways can covid-19 impact environmental crisis and our general perception of the issue?
In response to this unprecedented and urgent situation and its toll on the planet’s well-being and safety, PCAI, on the occasion of the Anthropocene On Hold exhibition, has invited 20 international visual artists to address the gravity of a global pandemic and its impact on art engagement and production as well as earth’s resilience and sustainability. James Bridle, Ionian Bisai & Sotiris Tsiganos, Matthias Fritsch, Kyriaki Goni, Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller, Hypercomf, Rindon Johnson, Evi Kalogiropoulou, Lito Kattou, Bianca Kennedy and the Swan Collective, Marcin Liminowicz & Trang Ha, Charly Nijensohn, Kosmas Nikolaou, Ira Schneider, Andrew Norman Wilson participate with new works in PCAI’s first online group exhibition curated by Kika Kyriakakou; an ongoing digital project that will be hosted on PCAI’s YouTube Channel (youtube.com/channel/UCKThYXergdup6X4g6ndTC2w) from May 14 to December 31, 2020.
MORE ABOUT PCAI
Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative (PCAI), was founded in 2014 by Athanasios Polychronopoulos, Polyeco Group Executive Chairman, as a means to increase environmental awareness through contemporary art and video. The organisation implements its objectives though three areas of activity: its mainly commissioned-based Art Collection, its Projects and its Support. Since 2018 PCAI has been a member of the International Association of Corporate Collections of Contemporary Art IACCCA and it has been awarded for its art projects, educational programs and partnerships on many occasions. Kika Kyriakakou, PCAI’s Artistic Director, initiated in 2019 through an open call the organisation’s artist-in-residence programme focusing on the interaction between contemporary art and environmental consciousness. The selection committee, consisting of Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Galleries Artistic Director, Krist Gruijthuijsen, KW Institute for Contemporary Art Director, and the PCAI Directors, chose artists Rindon Johnson and Lito Kattou to participate in the residency programme taking place in 2020.
Costas Tsoclis: Painting. Limits and Transgressions
In early September, The B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation inaugurates its new visual arts period with the retrospective exhibition of the renowned creator Costas Tsoclis, in view of the artist’s 90th birthday.
“Costas Tsoclis”, writes the exhibition’s curator, Takis Mavrotas, “is amongst the leading conceptual artists, and his profound insight leads him, approximately since 1955 until today, to the transformation of the real into the imaginary and of the invisible into the visible, for he relentlessly attempts to master a personal expression of plasticity imbued by poetical tension and philosophical power. Bold and brave, he struggles with the principles and the limits of painting in order to complete his multifaceted oeuvre that reflects his perceptive spirit. His work is characterised by constant evolution, high technical precision and semiotic density, probably because the simulacrum of its significance renders his work unique through the dissimilarity of its morphoplastic hypostasis; unique with regard to art, unique in terms of the emotions it triggers to the spectator. Hence, Tsoclis earned his place amongst the pioneers of contemporary art, with an immense set of semantic tension through paintings, installations, structures, performances, assemblages and video projections that corroborate his words: ‘Art is not meant to render the human being unhappier, but to redeem him.’”
8 September, 2020 to 8 November, 2020
Info: EXHIBITION CURATOR – CATALOGUE EDITOR
Takis Mavrotas
ASSISTANT CURATOR
Marina Miliou-Theocharakis
EXHIBITION COORDINATION
Evangelia Efthimiadou
COMMUNICATION
Marina Kampouroglou
Anna Georgiadou
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Irene Alexandrakis
Anna Plessa
TRANSLATION
Dimitris Saltabassis
Marina Miliou-Theocharakis
CONSTRUCTIONS DESIGN
Dimosthenis Kristalis
ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Thalia Kibari
ARTIST’S PHOTOGRAPHY
Harris Papadimitrakopoulos
Marina Miliou-Theocharakis
Chrysanthi Koutsouraki
ART TRANSPORT AND INSTALLATION
Swift Art Services
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Thymios Presvytis
Thodoris Anagnostopoulos
(Peak Design)
Katerina Katsifaraki "Dwelling"
Katerina Katsifaraki’s art revolves around the concept of perpetual motion. Ephemeral dwelling, roots and uprooting, the ceaseless moving from place to place, taking notice of the ostensibly unimportant and giving prominence to the fleeting are at the epicentre of her work.
22 September, 2020 to 9 January, 2021
Info: We often say that life “unravels” before our eyes. That memory is a “thread” with the potential to direct its course. That joy and peace must first “take root” in order to survive.
The photographs, videos, installations and objects of Katsifaraki, exhibited discreetly around the old textile factory, stand to confirm the metaphorical power of the thread and its relationship to nature. Through this cohabitation of images, threads, landscapes and machinery, nomadic/rhizomatic thought lays claim to our attention once again.
Hours: Tuesday/ Wednesday/ Thursday/ Friday/ Saturday: 10:00 - 15:00 Special remarks: Parking Wheelchair accessible
UBUNTU Five rooms from the Harry David Art Collection
UBUNTU
Five rooms from the Harry David Art Collection
22 September 2020 – 18 March 2021
EMST Temporary exhibitions space (Ground Floor)
Curators: Osei Bonsu, Rashid Johnson, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Emily Tsingou, Burkhard Varnholt
Architectural design: Stephania Kallos, Abby Turin (Kallos Turin)
66 works by 34 artists from the Harry David Art Collection, are presented in five rooms within the EMST Temporary Exhibitions Space (Ground Floor), from 22 September 2020 to 18 March 2021.
Works by representative artists of the contemporary African art, selected from the Harry David Art Collection, are presented in the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), in five specially designed rooms, created by the Kallos Turin architectural practice (architects Stephania Kallos and Abby Turin). Five curators, Osei Bonsu (Curator at Tate Modern), Rashid Johnson (Visual Artist), Elvira Dyangani Ose (Director of The Showroom art space), Emily Tsingou (Art Advisor to the Harry David Art Collection), Burkhard Varnholt (Collector, Founder of KINDL Centre for Contemporary Art) each take on a ‘room’, creating different discourses and approaches.
The South African term UBUNTU can be translated as ‘humanness’, ‘humanity towards others’, as a sense of human nature and a spirit of shared humanity. As a starting point for this exhibition, the phrase highlights the notion of a community and a spirit of sharing. At a time when the issue of race and racial discrimination remains as topical as ever - and the art of the developing countries of Africa and its diaspora is increasingly finding international recognition in the multi-cultural context of contemporary art - the exhibition aims to present the public with an overview of contemporary African art and the art of the African diaspora.
The political, historical and cultural polyphony that characterizes post-colonial Africa and expresses the constantly shifting conditions of the African continent lies at the core of the works in the exhibition, and is explored through a variety of themes, concepts and ideas, touching upon slavery and its history, racism and exploitation, segregation and apartheid, war, civil war, famine, cultural imperialism, race and gender, the ecological exploitation of Africa, African rites and rituals, African crafts traditions, representations of the black body, the notion of diaspora and displacement, the socio-political construction of skin colour, the experience of the immigrant, African history and memory, personal narratives and portraiture.
22 September, 2020 to 18 March, 2021
Info: Participating artists
Ifeoma Anyaeji, Lyle Ashton Harris, Κader Attia, Sanford Biggers, Virginia Chihota, Godfried Donkor, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Andrew Esiebo, Mary Evans, Ellen Gallagher, Theaster Gates, Lauren Halsey, Romuald Hazoumè, Lubaina Himid, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Taiye Idahor, Rashid Johnson, Moshekwa Langa, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Senzeni Marasela, Mohau Modisakeng, Meleko Mokgosi, Zanele Muholi, Wangechi Mutu, Kori Newkirk, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Chris Ofili, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Tschabalala Self, Yinka Shonibare, Shinique Smith, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
The Harry David Art Collection
The Harry David Art Collection is a post-conceptual collection of contemporary art. Established 20 years ago, it is an extended yet focused collection of a substantial number of works by leading artists active in Africa and the diaspora as well as African American artists.
The ethos of the collection is underpinned by a wish to represent the multiplicity of voices and disciplines that define the cultural, political and historical foundations of post-colonial Africa, and reflect the changing continent today. Some of the profound concerns that can be seen in the works of the collection include an engagement with: the history of slavery; racist exploitation; racial segregation and apartheid; war; civil war; famine; cultural imperialism; race and gender; the ecological exploitation of Africa; a focus on African rituals and rites traditions; African crafts traditions; the black body and its representation; the diaspora and displacement; the socio-political construct of skin colour; the experience of the immigrant; African history and memory; personal narratives and portraiture.
Artists represented in the collection vary from established and internationally recognized, to young and upcoming practitioners. Artists include Wangechi Mutu, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Ibrahim Mahama, William Kentridge, Abdoulaye Konaté, Romuald Hazoume, Meschac Gaba, Kendell Geers are collected alongside Michael Armitage, Lisa Brice, Lebohang Kganye, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye to name a few. The Harry David collection has also amassed a number of African American artists including Rashid Johnson, Ellen Gallagher, Mickalene Thomas, Sanford Biggers, Theaster Gates, Toyin Ojih Odutola.
Venue: EMST Temporary exhibitions space (Ground Floor) Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11.00 -19.00, every Thursday until 22.00 Monday closed
Pernille Koldbech Fich: Preparing for the Beach
Preparing for the Beach is a photographic peek into a world inhabited by 25 female pensioners who each attend a different Day Care Centre for Senior Citizens (ΚΑΠΗ) or Friendship Clubs. These clubs are scattered across the city and offer senior citizen gymnastics and self-defence classes taught by retired male top athletes.
1 October, 2020 to 22 November, 2020
Info: Preparing for the Beach merges memories, fiction and documentary into a Memento Mori about life's volatility; about time going by, while physical actions repeat themselves with the desire to maintain a healthy body and vibrant memories in order to keep on going.
The 67 photographic images are accompanied by short quotes and audio recordings from the daily scenes at the Centres. In them, the women are in a dialogue with the instructors and the artist’s young interpreter. Together, they reflect on the past and present within a one-year cycle.
The photographs are strangely subtle and yet insisting. They yield narratives that are both true and imaginary. Throughout the encounters with the women depicted, one is forced to reflect on one’s own life and mortality:
In Preparing for the Beach the seemingly simple things and matter-of-fact events plunge into unknown depths. Equally, the complexities of knowing and understanding age and lived life become strangely familiar.
The meeting with Pernille Koldbech Fichs’ new works leaves the viewer a little puzzled, yet much wiser on what it means to be human.
Venue: Benaki Museum / 138 Pireos St. Hours: Thursday-Sunday:10:00-18:00, Friday-Saturday:10:00-22:00, Closed on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Tickets: € 8, € 4 Benaki Museum membership provides free admission. More information at benaki.org/support Special remarks: Credit cards are accepted Wheelchair accessible
Theorimata 2: On History
Theorimata 2: On History
Temporary Exhibitions Space (-1)
1 October – 1 November 2020
1 October, 2020 to 1 November, 2020
Info: Theorimata, the exhibition / institution by AICA Hellas, the Greek Section of the International Association of Art Critics, AICA International, is presented for the second time at the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), from October 1 until November 1, 2020 in the EMST Temporary Exhibitions Space (-1).
The first exhibition was presented in 2018 with the aim to become a biennial event, providing the chance to curators, critics, art history scholars, and also artists to converse, collaborate and intervene in the artistic field; the theme of “Theorimata” will be differentiated each time, focusing on the characteristics and major issues of each period.
For the exhibition Theorimata 2: On History, 25 curators, scholars and art critics, members of the Greek Section of AICA, propose 56 artists who, with History as their axis, promote the function of art as an alternative educational tool and a means of dynamically intervening in the social fabric.
The idea that the knowledge of the past is an aid to the interpretation of the present and a guide to the future, asserted by Thucydides in his first book on the History of the Peloponnesian War, runs through the exhibition in which installations, constructions, sculptures, photographs, paintings, artists’ books, drawings, videos and happenings are presented.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a bilingual catalogue (in Greek and English) with introductory texts by Bia Papadopoulou and Emmanuel Mavrommatis, texts by the curators, photographs of the works and biographies of both the curators and artists.
The collective volume Kritiki+Techni (Criticism+Art) Vol. 6: Contemporary Art and the Archive: Archival Collections, Artistic Practices, Reflections (edited by Charis Kanellopoulou) will also be published.
The participating curators and artists are the following:
Alexandros M. Pfaff as proposed by Maria A. Angeli
Vicky Tsalamata, Antonis Choudalakis as proposed by Dionissia Giakoumi
Marina Gioti, Aristeidis Lappas, Thanasis Chondros – Alexandra Katsiani as proposed by Sozita Goudouna
Klitsa Antoniou, Yioula Hatzigeorgiou as proposed by Antonis Danos
Anastasis Stratakis as proposed by Charis Kanellopoulou
Yorgos Lazongas, Fotini Poulia, Angelos Skourtis as proposed by Artemis Kardoulaki
Marios Spiliopoulos, Tassos Triandafyllou, Ersi Hatziargyrou as proposed by Vassia Karkayanni-Karabelias
Annita Argyroiliopoulou, Irini Diadou as proposed by Lena Kokkini
Maria Andromachi Chatzinikolaou as proposed by Magda Koubarelou
Mary Christea as proposed by Tassos Koutsouris
Filippos Vasileiou as proposed by Christoforos Marinos
Ersi Venetsanou, Costas Vrouvas, Evi Kirmakidou as proposed by Emmanuel Mavrommatis
Nikos Giavropoulos, C o s t i s as proposed by Konstantinos Basios
Georgia Kotretsos & Panos Tsagaris as proposed by Maria Nicolacopoulou
Eleni Lyra, Efsevia Mihailidou, Dimitris Skourogiannis as proposed by Stratis Pantazis
Eleni Τzirtzilaki, Giorgos Tserionis, George Harvalias as proposed by Bia Papadopoulou
Dimitris Alithinos, Angelos Antonopoulos, Yiorgos Tsakiris as proposed by Miltiadis Μ. Papanikolaou
Dimitris Zouroudis, Kyrillos Sarris as proposed by Niki Papaspirou
Alexandros Georgiou, Pelagia Kyriazi as proposed by Spyros Petritakis
Georgia Sagri, Eliza Soroga, Filippos Tsitsopoulos as proposed by Constantinos V. Proimos
Takis Zerdevas, Constantinos Massos, Efi Fouriki as proposed by Athena Schina
Pandelis Lazaridis, Erato Tagaridi, Paris Chaviaras as proposed by Faye Tzanetoulakou
Georgia Damopoulou, Nikos Papadimitriou, Ilias Papailiakis as proposed by Lina Tsikouta
Makis Faros – Zoe Pyrini Group as proposed by Anna Hatziyiannaki
Kostas Tsolis as proposed by Kostas Christopoulos
Idea for the institution of Theorimata: Emmanuel Mavrommatis, Chairman of the Board of AICA Hellas and Emeritus of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Idea for the topic of Theorimata 2/2020: On History: Bia Papadopoulou, General Secretary of AICA Hellas, Art Historian, Exhibition Curator
Organizational & curatorial committee:
Emmanuel Mavrommatis, Bia Papadopoulou, Artemis Potamianou, Faye Tzanetoulakou, Kostas Christopoulos and AICA members Charis Kanellopoulou and Niki Papaspyrou for AICA Hellas
Events and Conferences in the context of the exhibition:
Events and Conferences will take place provided conditions permit, respecting all rules and measures for the safety of the public.
Events:
Filippos Vasileiou
Eleni Tzirtzilaki
Conferences
A conference entitled Digital Art and History will take place at the auditorium within the exhibition space (-1) (organization AICA Hellas, coordination and opening statement: Dr. Faye Tzanetoulakou, History of Art).
A conference on the Honorary Volume for Professor Miltiadis M. Papanikolaou will be held at the auditorium within the exhibition space (-1). Publication’s prologue: Emmanuel Mavrommatis, Vanias Publications, Thessaloniki, 770 pages. The volume includes 33 studies by students and associates of Professor M. M. Papanikolaou on issues in the fields of Art History and Theory and Cultural institutions, Volume Editor: Maria D. Kagiadaki. (organization AICA Hellas, coordination and opening statement: Emmanuel Mavrommatis, Emeritus Professor AUTh.)
(Professor M.M. Papanikolaou taught History of Art for approximately 40 years at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and other universities across the nation. He served as the Chairman of the History and Archaeology Department and the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He led the efforts for the establishment of the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki and as its Director signed the purchase contracts for the Costakis Collection in 2000).
Venue: EMST Temporary Exhibitions Space (-1) Hours: Tuesday – Sunday 11.00 -19.00, every Thursday until 22.00 Monday closed
Stefanos Rozanis | Philosophy and technoscience in modern day
Throughout the history of modernity, whenever a crisis emerges in scientific thought, a crisis in philosophical thought also presents itself, proving that there is an unbreakable bond between philosophy and science.
How can we analyse this bond and where does modern techno-science and modern philosophical reflection lead us?
5 October, 2020 to 16 November, 2020
Info: October 5,12,19,26, November 2,9,16,
Monday, 18:00 – 20:00
7 Lectures: 96€, 60€, Individual Lecture: 16€, 10€
Online Attendance: 7 Lectures: 60€, Individual Lecture: 12€
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Venue: B&M Theocharakis Foundation & Online Lectures
Takis Theodoropoulos | From Cavafy to Homer
From Cavafy to Homer, on the opposite shore of time, the famous abomination of Odysseus, "hold my heart", gives the mark of human existence. A sob, declaring the value of life. The modern world, with the illusion of its omnipotence, struggles to erase its memory, to transform it into the one-dimensional apathy of homo economicus. But Homer is engraved on the waxy surface of the soul. As Dostoevsky says: "Every soul seeks to rest on the Homeric shore nestled within it."
A not at all literary walk in texts that still keep us alive, that set the boundaries of a world that believes that with vitamins and Botox it will conquer immortality.
6 October, 2020 to 10 November, 2020
Info: October 6,13,20,27, November 3,10
Tuesday, 19:00 – 21:00
6 Lectures: 60€, 30€, Individual Lecture: 12€, 8€
Online Attendance
6 Lectures: 50€, Individual Lecture: 10€
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Venue: B&M Theocharakis Foundation & Online Lectures
Stelios Ramfos | From Homer to Alexander
Climbing to the peaks of Ancient Greek culture (Part B):
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Myron, Pheidias, Democritus, Pindar, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Socrates, Euripides, Thucydides, Demosthenes, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Alexander.
7 October, 2020 to 16 December, 2020
Info: October 7, 14, 21, November 4,11, 18, 25, December 2, 9, 16
Wednesday 18:00 – 20:00
Online Attendance
10 Lectures: 100€, Individual Lecture: 12€
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Vasilis Gerontakos | Andrei Tarkovsky: The Ark of Images
“My job is to make the viewer of my films his need to love and be loved, to understand that beauty calls him near her” to her."
This phrase of Andrei Tarkovsky encloses the effort of a creator to awaken man, so that he becomes a participant in a universe, where the driving force is love.
Andrei Tarkovsky is an undercover poet-director, the creator of a complex cosmopolitanism whose roots are traced to late 19th-century Russia, guided on one hand by Dostoevsky's genius, Dovzhenko's lyricism, the power of great creators of the time, and on the other, by the spirituality of Orthodoxy and other metaphysical Eastern dogmas.
Based on these influences, he composed a universe of magical relationships, where he directed with a new cinematic language, the meeting of man with the world. Image is the key to entering this universe, which will be explored through his work.
This tribute consists of three meetings. In the first meeting, a presentation will be made, showing some excerpts from the film Nostalgia, as well as necessary material, exploring the way Tarkovsky detects nostalgia and the search for the "place" as an element of identity.
In the second meeting, using the same methods and analysing the film “Andrei Rublyov”, we will explore Tarkovsky’s relationship with spirituality, tradition, orthodoxy, power, God and his anguished attempt to meet the "Other”.
In the third meeting, through the film “Sacrifice”, his swan song, his gaze will be sought on modern civilization, the search for fundamental values that govern human existence, the meaning of sacrifice, the future of humanity.
23 October, 2020 to 6 November, 2020
Info: October 23, 30 2020, November 6 2020
Friday, 18:00 – 20:00
Individual Lecture: 10€, 5€
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Venue: B&M Theocharakis Foundation
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