At Dépôt Art Gallery, 5 Neophytou Vamva str. Kolonaki,
in collaboration with the Institute Cervantes of Athens, under the auspices of
the Spanish Embassy, an art group exhibition is opening on Friday June 9th from
8p.m until 11p.m, having as its main theme “80+1 years of LORCA’s absence” and
it is dedicated to the completion 80+1 years since the death of the Spanish
poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca. The exhibition is being curated by
the Art Historian and Researcher of Athens University Constantine Vapheiades.
The exhibition will last until Thursday June 29th 2017.
At the dawn of August 19th 1936
ex-military men, followers of Franco executed Federico Garcia Lorca, ending the
short life cycle of one of the greatest poets of our century.
He, himself it had anyway stated: “I
will never become a politician. I am a rebel as there isn’t a true poet who
isn’t rebel.”
His tragic and premature death
didn’t give him away into oblivion. His colossal work is alive. It travelled
outside the borders of his country and it has never stopped being read and move
people because it is true, original poetry with rhythm and musicality like pure
running water.
In this exhibition 43 contemporary
artists “interpret” the life, the work and the death of Federico Garcia Lorca.
Art Historian mr. Constantine
Vapheiades notes:
“Inspired Greek artists hasten to
pay tribute to Federico Garćia Lorca’s memory, one of the most important
European dramatists and uncompromising
opponent of the literary conventions of the 20th century, eight decades
after his odious assassination († 1936).
Forty masterpieces, paintings and
sculptures, undertake to interpret and, at the same time, to recompose Lorca’s
Vision and his faith in the revolution of feelings, which form what we realize
as the truth. However, this exhibition is not a conventional veneration to the
great Poet of love. It is a tribute to his unblemished and unburied body and to
his adolescent spirit, which demands justification continuously. It also claims
the immediacy of the inspiration and the fresh breeze of the Truth. Ultimately,
it demands our existential restoration within the bounds of Right and of Love.
Obviously, the works of Art,
exhibited here, agree to the demands mentioned above. These artistic essays try
to look deep into Lorca’s life and action in order to reshape his beautiful
spirit under the soot of the contemporary “self-referred” European culture.
Many of them are artistic adaptations of Lorca’s dramatic and poetic work.
Other paintings look for the point of his thought, so as to enlighten our
painful reality. Finally, few of them reject not only the Poet’s absence, but
also the “death” of his thought by the power of dominant today’s Speech.”
The participant artists are:
George Androutsos // Magda Apostolou
// Maria Apostolou // Constantine Vapheiades // Anastasia Gkinaki // Nikos
Danalis // Voula Daskalopoulou // Tassos Dimos // Eva Divari // Loukia Dragatsi
// Frini Dragatsi // George Dritsas // Tania Drogossi // Ioanna T. // Angela
Karalis // Michael Kevgas // Nikos Kolokithas // Maria Koliva // Sofia Rose
Kosmidou // Penny Konstantinou // Christine Loukidi // Marina Maltezou // Penny
Manavi // Katerina Mavroleon // Vassiliki Bloukou // Angeliki Bobori //
Vaggelis Boboris // Panayiotis Nezis // Fotini Othoneou // George Papadimitriou
// Sofia Papadopoulou // Nikolas Perdikaris // Alexandra Petranaki // Nadia
Rapti // Natassa Rachovitsa // Konstantis Skantzis // Sofia Stavrou // Stathis
Sotirchos // Nikoletta Tzanne // Kerassia Touliatou // Sylvia Fessa // Maria Fili
/ Aristidis Chrysanthopoulos
During this exhibition on Friday
June 23rd at 8p.m Antonio Armani and Armani musical and theatre center are
going to present a musical performance with highlights from Federico Garcia
Lorca’s works, Lorca’s verses adapted into songs and Spanish songs, in
cooperation with the actor and director Maria Katsioni.
The exhibition is accompanied by a
48 pages catalogue in Greek and Spanish which is distributed at no cost.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Curator: Constantine Vapheiades
Concept – Organization –
Communication: Dimitris Lazarou
Music and radio spot edit: Tasos
Petsas
Videos edit: Zois Koutroulis
Translator in English: Μάρα Συρρή
Opening date and hours: Friday June
9th, 20:00hrs – 23:00hrs
Duration: 9th up to 29th June
Video preview: youtube.com
Radio spot: soundcloud.com
Facebook link:
www.facebook.com
Dépôt Art Gallery
Neophytou Vamva str. 5
GR 106 74 Kolonaki - Athens
Tel :+30 210 3648174
e-mail: info@depotgallery.gr
official site : www.depotgallery.gr
Facebook: depotgallery.gr
Working hours: Tuesday to Friday,
12:00 – 20:30
Saturday: 12:00 –16:00
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