28th PLOES: P. & M. Kydonieos Foundation 30.07 - 02.10 2022
28th PLOES: Anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe 1922-2022, P. & M. Kydonieos Foundation
The P. & M. Kydonieos Foundation of Andros presents, in the context of the 28th organization of Ploes, the group art exhibition "1922-2022 Anniversary of Asia Minor Catastrophe. The passage". This year's cultural program is dedicated to the memory of the president of the P. & M. Kydonieos Foundation Nikos Sigalas (1957-2022).
The exhibition presents works by contemporary visual artists – works of painting, sculpture, engraving, ceramics and mosaics – that draw their inspiration from Asia Minor and Pontic Hellenism. Artists are not only inspired by the havoc, brutality and dramatic situations experienced by our ancestors. The criteria for the creation of this particular exhibition was the expressive quality, the dialectic character and the freedom of the artists to shape works inspired by the existential concerns and psychodynamic imprints of an entire period of 100 years, which mediated from then until today (1922-2022).
The exhibition presented by the 28th Ploes concerns the more or less obvious signs left the years from 1922 until today, regarding the cultural inoculation that we received during this time and transformed it through the experiences and experiences of our expatriate refugees.
Since 1922, the Asia Minor and Pontic people in Greece developed with advance and at a rapid pace all the areas where they lived and worked, enriching our overall daily life with a research spirit, humanitarian values and skills. The style and ethos of our life has changed radically since then. This is the reason, after all, that this group anniversary exhibition is mainly based on its identifying subtitle, which is "The passage".
Without ignoring the drama experienced by the Asia Minors, the exhibition does not limit itself to it. It focuses more on the reduction of memory and its effects, on the questions raised and those mediated about the next day, and therefore the weight mainly falls on the existential and multi-layered dimension involved in the concept of "passage" itself.
The artists participating alphabetically are: Vlasis Agtzidis, Yiannis Adamakos, Christos Antonaropoulos, Yiannis Aristotelous, Vangelis Gokas, Eleni Zouni, Konstantinos Kantarzis (KANT), Vlasis Kotios, Yiannis Kyriakidis, Yiannis Makrieridis, Konstantina and Cleo Bolieraki, Vangelis Pappas, Kiki Perivolari, George Saltaferos, Nikos Sklavenitis, George Stamatakis, Marianna Strapatsaki, Efi Fouriki, Thalia Chioti.
On Sunday, July 31, at 11.30 am, in the exhibition space of the P. & M. Kydonieos Foundation, a lecture and discussion with the public will be held in the context of the topic regarding the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the concerns surrounding the causes and effects her. The speaker will be Vlasis Agtzidis, PhD in History of Modern Hellenism and at the same time a visual artist.
The exhibition, as well as the accompanying catalog, is edited by Athena Schina, historian of Art and Theory of Culture at EKPA.
P. & M. Kydonieos Foundation: Chora Andros, tel. 22820 24598
Exhibition duration:
30 July-2 October 2022 (Wednesday-Monday 10.30-14.30 and 18.30-21.30)
