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EN AITHRIA 9 (28-09-2018 9:00 pm) The historic comics and illustrations exhibition at the Hellenic American Union…
"En Aithria 9" at the Hellenic American Union.
Comicdom Press and the Hellenic American Union, in cooperation with the Hellenic American College (HAEC), proudly present the comics and illustrations group exhibition En Aithria 9, featuring 82 Greek creators. The exhibition series “En Aithria” is an initiative by Artistic Director Gabriel Tompalides aiming to bring together in a single space the work of renowned artists of the local comics and illustrations scene with that of up-and-coming new talents. Free of any particular curatorial prompt, as always, participating creators hail from a wide range of different styles and schools, in an attempt to showcase both the diversity in the creativity of Greek artists and in what motivates them in the present time and place.
Exhibition curators: Dimitris Sakaridis, Elias Katirtzigianoglou and Melandros Ganas.
Featuring the following creators:
Irini Agelidou
Dimitris Agarai
Dimitra Adamopoulou
Spyros Evangelos Armenis
Eugenia Vereli
Panagiotis Vlamis
Vasilis Gerkou
Dennis Giatras
Tomek Giovanis
Melandros Ganas & Alexandra Tribola
Vassilis Gogtzilas
Giorgos Gousis
Elena Gogou
Spiros Derveniotis
Georgios Dimitriou
Vasilis Dimopoulos
George Doutsiopoulos
Triantaphyllos Eleutheriou
Giannis Ermidis
Orestis Ermeidis
Vasilis Zikos
Efi Theodoropoulou
Panos Kamoulakos
Avgi Kanaki
Dimitrios Kasdaglis
Elias Katirtzigianoglou & Eugenia Koumaki
Michael Katoglou
Daphne Keskenidou
Thomas Kefalas
Stavros Kioutsioukis
George Komiotis & Harry Saxon
Rafaella Koni
Dimitris Koskinas
Arinela Kociko
Nikos Koutsis
Tasos Kyriakidis, Filippos Konstantakis
Nearhos Konstantinou
George Konstantopoulos Manos Lagouvardos
Aris Labos
Alexia Lougiaki
Vasilis Lolos
Tasos Maragos
Lefteris Mavrogiannis
Panagiotis Mitsobonos
George Micalef
George Moundroukas (Gemo)
Hariton Bekiaris
George Botsos
Athanasios Bangeas
Lila Belivanaki
Nikos Milioris
Kostas Nikellis
Dimitra Nikolaidi
Marios Ksidonas
Alexia Othonaiou
Dimitris Pantazis
Kostas Pantoulas
Siadora Papatheodorou
Thanasis Petrou
Yannis Rubulias
Angeliki Salamaliki
Konstantinos Sklavenitis
George Soulis
Nikolas Stefadouros (Stef)
Tety Solou
Gabriel Tompalides
Thanos Tsilis
Maggie Tsiopelaki
Kostas Fragiadakis
Vassilis Chilas & Panagiotis Tsaousis
Nektarios Chionis
Rianna Adams
Malk
Darina Miroshnichenko
Rob Snow
Dani Strips.
Information:
Organizer: Comicdom Press, Hellenic American Union, Hellenic American College (HAEC).
Start Date: 12/09/2018.
End Date: 28/09/2018.
Opening: Wednesday, September 12th, 2018, 19:00
Gallery.
Hours/Duration: Monday-Friday: 12:00-21:00, Saturday: 10:30-14:30, closed on Sunday.
Admission is free.
Venue: Kennedy Gallery, Hellenic American Union,Massalias 22,
10680 Athens, 210 3680052.
36th SPARTATHLON ULTRA-MARATHON RACE (29-09-2018 12:00 pm) Spartathlon, one of the most demanding races in the world, whose course covers a total distance of 245 km between Athens and the historic city of Sparta, will be taking place once more this September with the participation of professional long-distance runners from all over the world.
Spartathlon, which is now on its 36th year, is a 245-kilometre (153 miles) ultramarathon race held annually in Greece since 1984 and takes place between Athens and Sparta, the modern town located at the site of the former city-state of ancient Sparta. The race has its origins back in ancient times as it follows in the footsteps of Phedippides, an Athenian messenger sent to Sparta in 490 BC to seek aid against the Persians in the Battle of Marathon. According to accounts by Greek historian Herodotus, Phedippides managed to run the distance between Sparta and Athens in only a day and a half.
Given its unique history, race profile, running conditions and strict cut-off times, the Spartathlon Ultra-Marathon is one of the most difficult and at the same time rewarding ultra-distance races in the world. The race, whose altitude difference ranges from sea level to 1.200m, includes a combination of roads, namely tarmac, trails and footpaths, and has a 36 hours cut-off time (or a day and a half, same as Phedippides) thus making it one of the toughest races for participants to test their strength and endurance.
This year’s race, that will take place on 28-29 September 2018, kicks off at 7 am at the foot of the Acropolis Hill and finishes at 7 pm on the next day at the imposing statue of King Leonidas in Sparta. Its iconic trail takes runners through muddy paths, across vineyards and olive groves and up steep hills with its biggest challenge to this day being the 1.200-meter ascent up Mount Parthenion in the middle of the night.
The idea for this ultra-marathon came from John Foden, a British RAF Wing Commander, who in 1982 decided to run the distance between Athens and Sparta along with four of his colleagues. The first international Spartathlon race was held in 1983 with the participation of 45 runners from 11 countries and in 1984 Spartathlon International Association was established. Since then the race has become a major annual sports event with more than 400 participants from over 50 countries registering each year for this demanding race, which according to statistics only about a third manages to successfully complete and reach the finish line.
The race is organized by Spartathlon International Association, since the latter was first established in 1984.
Date: September 28-29th, 2018¦ Location: Athens and Sparta ¦ Start and finish lines: The race starts at the foot of the Acropolis Hill in central Athens and finishes at the statue of Leonidas at the city of Sparta in the Peloponnese - for more details please see the organizers’ website ¦ Event times: For the detailed times of the race please see the official Spartathlon website ¦More info: https://www.spartathlon.gr/en.
ÖANTASTICON 2018 (07-10-2018 9:30 pm) The Greek Fantasy Convention is back...
Fantasticon 2018 at the Hellenic American Union
Ôhe Greek convention exclusively dedicated to the realm of fantasy is back to bring together all fans of fantasy fiction!
This year’s international guest is the acclaimed Russian science fiction writer Dmitry Alexeevich Glukhovsky, author of the best-selling novel "Metro 2033" and of the namesake video game.
ÖantastiCon 2018 guest of honor is the writer, poet, illustrator and actor Makis Panorios, whose contribution has been decisive for the spread of Fantasy in Greece.
Highlights of this year's convention include performances, talks, book presentations, writing and illustration seminars, meetups with Fantasy authors and artists, a concert by the “Fantasy Symphony Orchestra” and the digital arts contest ÖantasticArt 2018 and cosplay contest Fantasy Champions 2018.
For additional information (in Greek) please visit the official website of the convention.
ÖantastiCon is organized in cooperation with the Hellenic American College (HAEC) and the Greek Fantasy Society.
Information:
Organizer: Hellenic American Union, Hellenic American College (HAEC), Greek Fantasy Society.
Start Date: 06/10/2018.
End Date : 07/10/2018.
Gallery Hours/Duration: Saturday & Sunday 11:00-21:30.
Type: Symposium.
Languages: EL.
Interpretation Provided: No.
Registration Required: No.
Reservation Required: No.
Admission is free.
Venue: Hellenic American Union,Massalias 22, 10680 Athens, 210 3680052.
GEORGE CONDO EXHIB AT CYCLADIC ART MUSEUM (14-10-2018 5:00 pm) The Museum of Cycladic Art hosts the exhibition "George Condo at Cycladic", George Condo’s first large personal museum exhibition in Greece. The exhibition presents a total of 30 works -including paintings, sculptures and drawings - which span the past 20 years of the artist’s career. Exhibited for the first time at the exhibition George Condo at Cycladic is a series of paintings and drawings created in 2017, including a rare suite of self-portraits titled Self portrait in Paris 1-3 (2017) and Me, Myself and Him (2017).
Rather than a chronological display of the artist’s oeuvre in the form of a retrospective, George Condo’s exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art is a selection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures that implore us to explore the human figure, a principal theme of the Museum of Cycladic Art’s contemporary exhibitions program.
Condo, along with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Jeff Koons, was instrumental in reviving figuration in America in the 1980s and is considered one of the most important American figurative sculptors and painters to this day. He belongs to a generation of artists who had to work their way backwards into realism, seeing that at the time, in a post Abstract-Expressionist landscape, figuration had been put on hold while conceptual art and minimalism were at the forefront of artistic practices. Balancing between the beautiful and the grotesque, the mundane and the absurd, high art and commercial ‘pop’ art, Condo’s fresh artistic creations make of him one of the most inventive artists of his generation.
The exhibition "George Condo at Cycladic" aims to showcase the references, ideas, and mastered skills collected by the artist over time. Condo’s work, infused with deep literary, musical and art historical knowledge seems to be a reflection of his character, an extension of himself: charismatic, grand, insightful, cultivated, elegant, and with a great sense of humor. Cheeky grins, goggle eyes, rows of teeth, and budding heads—whether in black ink or in bursts of yellow, green, purple and orange—make up the figures of Condo’s frenetic world.
The exhibition includes, among other works, the sculptures Totemic Personage (2012) and Nude on Wine Crates 2 (2016), in which fragmentation and reconfiguration appear as integral to Condo’s work and Internal Space (2005), which proves that a work of art can be both representational and abstract. The paintings Homeless Harlequins (2004), Grinning Harlequin (2005), and Laughing Priest (2004) showcase Condo’s characteristic practice of recording the daily absurdities of life through a cast of characters that inhabit his mind, leaving behind his very own commedia dell’ arte. Paper Faces (1997) is a monumental work in which Condo brings together a number of characteristic motifs of his work.
“I think the whole act of making art has nothing to do with the medium within which you work… You can paint, draw, write, etc., but the act itself always remains the same.”
- George Condo.
Dates: 08/06/2018 - 14/10/2018.
Admission: 7 Euros.
Reduced admission: 5 Euros.
MCA Friends: Admission Free.
Opening Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 10:00-17:00, Thursday: 10:00-20:00, Sunday: 11:00-17:00, Tuesday: Closed.
Guided tours: every Wednesday at 11:00 (in English) and every Thursday at 19:00 ( in Greek).
Venue: Museum of Cycladic Art,
Vasilissis Sofias Avenue & 1 Irodotou Street.
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