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ATHENS EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
ATHENS EPIDAURUS FESTIVAL 2022 (20-08-2022 10:00 pm) The program has been announced and tickets are now on sale for many of the shows that make up the exciting roster of this year’s WORLD RENOWNED Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the biggest event on Greece’s cultural calendar, stretching across more than 3 months (JUNE-AUGUST) and multiple venues. Check out the program and make your bookings for the headliners before tickets sell out, at aefestival.gr.
EXHIB: \"ARBRES A PALABRES\" (30-10-2022 11:00 pm) Stephan Goldrajch conceived the participatory project, entitled Arbre à palabres , displayed in the EMST Foyer, from the 15th of December, 2021 to the the 30th October 2022.
Á giant tree, 6 metres high, is comprised of numerous pieces of knitting, crochet or weaving of any colour, pattern and yarn made by people of different ages and social backgrounds, particularly from neighborhoods around the museum.
Arbre à palabres, the palaver tree, is usually found in the centre of African villages and is a place where people meet and exchange ideas, elders share stories with children, and where important decisions concerning the village are discussed. In Greece we could compare the Palaver tree with the Platane tree found in Greek villages where people of all ages gather and partake in the daily social life. The knitted items that were selected – following the artist’s open call – have been placed on the tree. This collaborative, polyphonic work of art, encompasses all the stories involved in its making, marking a new era for the museum, one which is more open, inclusive and welcoming.
It is the first presentation of the artist’s work in Greece.
DATES:
15/12/2021-30/10/2022.
OPENING HOURS:
Ôue., Wed., Sat., & Sun.:11:00 – 19:00
Thurs: 11:00– 23:00
VENUE: EMST,
Kallirrois Avenue & Amv. Frantzi Street, Athens 11743
"MAMAM" AT THE SNFCC (06-11-2022 11:55 pm) Louise Bourgeois’s monumental sculpture Maman (1999) is brought to the Greek public by NEON and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), collaborating for the first time.
This iconic giant spider — one of the works that made the artist internationally famous — will be on display at SNFCC’s Esplanade for a seven-month period, with free entry to the public.
The SNFCC’s participation in the Maman installation is made possible by a recent grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) for the SNFCC’s 2022 operations and programming.
Through her art, Louise Bourgeois expressed her innermost thoughts and fears, worked through problems, and gave form to her emotions. In prints, drawings, textiles, installation, and, most famously, sculpture, Bourgeois explored themes of guilt, fear, memory, motherhood, and love. Bourgeois’s art was informed by her life, particularly her childhood years. She first made drawings of spiders in the late 1940s, and nearly 50 years later created the giant three-dimensional spiders for which she has become well-known.
Maman, standing at over 10 metres tall, was created for the Tate Modern’s first Turbine Hall commission in 2000, and was subsequently cast in an edition of bronze, stainless steel, and marble. Bourgeois stated that the work was symbolic of her mother, a weaver and tapestry restorer. With ten eggs in its abdomen, the sculpture embodies ideas of maternal protection. However, the artist’s relationship to motherhood was ambiguous, contradictory, and complex. Dominating its surroundings and teetering on rangy, segmented legs, Maman also evokes fear and suggests entrapment.
DATES:
1/03/2022 - 06/11/2022.
OPENING HOURS:
Mon.- Sun.: 06:00 – 00:00.
Free entrance.
Venue: STAVROS NIARCHOS FOUNDATION CULTURAL CENTER / ATHENS
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