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Yannis Moralis: Architectural Compositions

admin — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:01:00 +0000

Description
Catalogue accompanying the exhibition of the same name, organised by the Benaki Museum (February 10 – April 30, 2011).
This is the first full presentation of Yannis Moralis’ architectural creations in print. The texts that accompany approximately 200 works in the catalogue constitute personal comments and testimony by the artist himself. Includes an introductory text by Fanny-Maria Tsigakou, the catalogue editor; previously unpublished essays by Spyros Kontaratos and Thymios Papayiannis; and previously published pieces by Alexandros Xydis, Marinos Kalligas and Nikos Papadakis, who focus on the creative contribution Yannis Moralis made to architecture, as well as on focusing on expanding a very fertile field of collaboration between architects and artists.
Informative writings combined with the variety of illustrations add up to a unique document for students of the architectural oeuvre of this major Greek artist.

Manolis Charos. Aesop’s Fables

admin — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:22:08 +0000

The exhibition focuses on Manolis Charos’s take on Aesop’s Fables – contemporary paintings and engravings by the artist with themes from Aesop’s Fables, which also contain references to the manner in which those fables were transformed into images over the past 2500 years.

After many years researching his topic in libraries, collections and marketplaces in Europe and the U.S., the artist discovered the images, the main figures and the representations of the fables, as they were presented through time, communicating different messages, according to the habits of each era, but always preserving the poetry of the transition, as well as the direct narrative which is so well known.

Exhibition curator: Eleni Athanassiou

Duration:

07/09/2011 – 16/10/2011

Place:

Benaki Museum - Main building

1 Koumbari St. & Vas. Sofias Ave.
tel 210 367 1000
fax 210 367 1063

Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 9:00 – 17:00
Thursday: 9:00 – 24:00
Sunday: 9:00 – 15:00

James Robertson. Photographs of Grecian Antiquities

admin — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:53:19 +0000

James Robertson (1813-1888) was one of the major exponents of photography in the 19th century. Of Scottish extraction, he was an engraver and in 1841 was invited by Sultan Abdulmecid to take up the position of chief engraver at the Imperial mint at Constantinople. There, at the start of the eighteen fifties, he took his first steps as a photographer. Using Constantinople as his launching pad – he lived there for forty years – he carried out photographic tours of Athens in 1853-54 and again 1856; Malta in 1856; the Holy Lands, Egypt and Damascus in 1857; while alongside his famous colleague Roger Fenton he covered the Crimean War (1854-55) and the events of Sebastopol (1855-56). After 1881 he settled in Yokohama, where he lived out his days. The exhibition presents of his 38 photographs, which were included in the portfolio: “Photographs by James Robertson: Athens and Grecian Antiquities”, dating from 1853-54, on the basis of similar portfolios of other museum collections. This portfolio was gifted to the Benaki Museum Photographic Archive in 1989 by Rena Andreadi. This collection of photographs constitutes a unique archive of visual evidence to the condition of the monuments in Athens in the period following the Greek War of Independence. It also constitutes an exceptional group of rare exemplars exhibiting the techniques and aesthetics of photographic art at this time.

to 21/8/11

Benaki Museum

main Building

1 Koumbari St. & Vas. Sofias Ave.
tel 210 367 1000
fax 210 367 1063
benaki@benaki.gr

TREASURE HUNT

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:31:18 +0000

For the International Tourist Guides Day (February 21nd), the Association of Licensed Guides organizes a “TREASURE HUNT” in Athens, Greece in order to project the role of the tourist guides in Greece. The event will take place on Sunday February 20th…

“Aeolian Sculptures”

admin — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:14:07 +0000

by: Stratos Kavalieratos

An installation by artist Stratos Kavalieratos located outdoors at the Main Building of the Benaki Museum: sculptures that convert wind energy into motion and provide an unanticipated visual diversion.

These Aeolian sculptures, as the artist calls them, were worked in wood, using machinery parts, and studded with small light bulbs, which are switched on by the movement of the propellers, whenever the wind blows. After the sun sets, visual contact with the sculptures is lost, and all that remains is a multi-coloured rotating disk.
“It’s an unusual and unprecedented form of art, that won’t allow you to become bored. Your eyes focus on the multi-coloured circles and is enchanted by them” the artist notes

Duration

23/12/2010 – 27/02/2011

Place

Athens, Greece

Benaki Museum

Main Building

The Hand of Angelos

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:40:25 +0000

The exhibition presents the work of a renowned 15th-century painter, Angelos Akotantos, who lived in Venetian-held Crete. The artist was a prominent member of society during his life and a significant number of icons bearing the signature The Hand of Angelos has been preserved, along with his hand-written will, which brings into focus his personality. Seeking the context for Angelos the painter, insight is provided about the art of Constantinople circa 1400, through icons and illustrated manuscripts; and the movements of painters from the capital of the Byzantine Empire to Crete, in search of safer conditions for their artistic endeavours.
The exhibition is curated by Maria Vassilaki, Professor of Byzantine Art at the University of Thessaly.

to 16/01/11

Benaki Museum Main Building
Main Building1 Koumbari St. & Vas. Sofias Ave.
tel 210 367 1000
fax 210 367 1063
benaki@benaki.gr

info about Benaki Museum: Museums section

Time. People. Their stories

admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:28:35 +0000

A study of the concept of theatricality outside the confines of a stage

The exhibition attempts to create a discourse between recorded history and that which remains unwritten, between the official story and the traces of small everyday stories through time; traces that become documents for the scholars of the future or that provide a starting point for the creativity of artists in the present day.

Participants:
Vlassis Kaniaris & Dimitris Alithinos; Kostas Ananidas; Arkas; Angelos Antonopoulos; Yiannis Assimakopoulos ; Erietta Vordoni; Babis Venetopoulos; Yiorgos Gyparakis; Stavros Diakoumis; Nikos Kanarellis; Marigo Kassi; Kyriakos Katzourakis; Aristidis Kongogiorgis, Panagiotis Koulouras, Panagiotis Lambrinidis; Yiorgos Lappas; Alexandra Myressioti; Vally Nomidou; Nakis Panayiotidis; Angelos Papadimitriou; Kostas Tsironis; Pantelis Chandris; Aglaia Christianou.

The exhibition is co-curated by Manos Stefanidis

to 31/01

Benaki Museum

Main Building

1 Koumbari St. & Vas. Sofias Ave.
tel 210 367 1000
fax 210 367 1063
benaki@benaki.gr

info about Benaki Museum: http://www.livinlovin.gr/category/museums/

Theophilos : Works from the Collection of the Emporiki Bank

admin — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:53:00 +0000

The exhibition contains a group of twenty paintings from the art collection of the Emboriki Bank of Greece. It offers the public an opportunity to see up-close a representative sample of the oeuvre of this painter from Mytilene, which records in his characteristic manner his involvement with painting.
The works in the collection include a selection of the usual themes chosen by Theophilos Hadjimichael: scenes from history or mythology; images taken from postcards and old lithographs or photographs; landscapes; and images of everyday life.
The collection of these twenty works by Theophilos, shown in the exhibition, belongs to the Emboriki Bank of Greece since the 1980s and, with rare exceptions, this is the first time it will be shown to the public in its entirety.
The exhibition is accompanied by the Emboriki Bank of Greece’s publication Theophilos (Athens, 1967), edited by Yannis Tsarouchis and Yiorgos Manousakis and with texts by Yannis Tsarouchis, a publication that brings together over 300 works by the artist.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition there will be showings of the special tribute filmed for the series Paraskinio (Backstage), entitled “2003 – Theophilos Again?”, directed by Lakis Papastathis.

15/09/2010 – 31/10/2010

Athens, Greece

Benaki Museum Main Building

source: www.benaki.gr

Zizi Makri.China 1956 : Prints and Drawings

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:18:07 +0000

This exhibition is a tribute to the oeuvre of Zizi Makri (born in 1924), a major figure in engraving, mosaic and tapestry.

The exhibition will show pieces inspired by her travels in China in 1956, a series of woodcuts and pastels created using on-site sketches as their starting point and drawing on the visual experiences of that country, with the wealth of inspiration it offers; works that narrate the history, culture, myth, people and society of a country that is changing.

source: Benaki museum

14/06/2010 – 29/08/2010

Benaki Museum Main Building

1 Koumbari St. & Vas. Sofias Ave.
tel 210 367 1000

nearest Metro: lines 2, 3 : SYNTAGMA & EVAGELISMOS stations

Headdresses : Souvenirs of encounters with Asian cultures

admin — Wed, 05 May 2010 07:29:06 +0000

The exhibition will showcase approximately 100 hats, head bands, fezzes, straw hats, children’s caps, wedding wreaths, diadems, brooches and other head coverings and decorations, basic accoutrements of traditional clothing, that bear witness to ethnic features, and reveal the history, beliefs, customs and aesthetic preferences of the people who wear them.
As souvenirs collected by Ioanna Koutsoudaki, the exhibits map her voyages from the Mediterranean to the Pacific Oceans: Egypt, Palestine, Yemen, Oman, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia, India, Pakistan, Tibet, China, Myanmar (Burma), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia. They constitute representative samples of local costume, mainly of minorities, who inhabit the aforementioned areas, just like the Naga, along the borders of Myanmar and India, the Kalas in North-western Pakistan, the Miao in south-western China and the Hani/Akha who live in China, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

info and photo. was taken from the official Benaki museum site

to: 06/06/2010

Benaki Main Building, Koumbari str. & Vas. Sofias ave,

metro station: Syntagma