WAAG. We Are All Greeks! 1821-2021

Item

Title

Subject - keywords

Homeland

Philhellenism

Sicily

Heroes

Date

15 May-29 August 2021

Date Issued

2021

Abstract

The exhibition develops through seven stages: Flag, Sacrifice, Homeland, Philhellenism, Heroes, Political Power, Freedom. Topics that are described historically with the contribution of the Nikos Tombros, professor of political history at the Hellenic Army Academy, through concise texts, poems or sections of political speeches, but also artistically through the works of 15 leading Italians and Greeks artists. The exhibition includes Spyros Angelopoulos, Manolis Anastasakos, Andrea Buglisi, Michele Ciacciofera, Giorgio Distefano, Emanuele Giuffrida, Kiki Kolimbari, Filippo La Vaccara, Nikos Moschos, Ignazio Cusimano Schifano, Max Serradzalis and Marc Zanghi. In the exhibition the visitor will be able to listen to an original musical composition by Christos Ktistakis entitled “Greece 1821”, inspired by the poem “Hellas” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, by the women’s choir inDONNAtión (Larissa Municipal Conservatory, conducted by Dimitris Ktistakis, assistant professor of the Ionian University and accompanied by a piano by Froso Ktistaki).

(Edited and translated description from mbp.gr website)