SOTIRIS CHRISTIDIS THE PAN-HELLENIC DESIRE

Τρί10Οκτ(Οκτ 10)20:00Πέμ30Νοέ(Νοέ 30)20:00SOTIRIS CHRISTIDIS THE PAN-HELLENIC DESIRE(Οκτώβριος 10) 20:00 - (Νοέμβριος 30) 20:00(GMT+00:00)

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[TRACES OF HELLENISM] WORKS BY SOTIRIS CHRISTIDIS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE MUNICIPAL GALLERY

The work of the popular illustrator, painter and lithographer is presented in an important exhibition at Casa Bianca, organised by the Municipal Gallery. Sotiris Christidis (1858-1940) was born in Thessaloniki, but worked in Athens.

His lithography immortalised heroic moments in modern Greek history through the eyes of an authentic narrator, he moulded allegorical aspects of our ancient Greek and Byzantine past in order to visualise the virtues of our people, aiming to satisfy popular sentiment, and he actively participated in shaping the aesthetics of his time, by recording everyday events from urban life, creating covers for popular printed materials, illustrations for newspapers, sheet music, advertisements, degrees, countless needlework designs and “Genevieves” and Karagiozis shadow puppet theatre figures. The exhibition, curated by Art Historian Thalia Stefanidou, covers the entire spectrum of activities of an artist who mainly worked as a lithographer, conquering popular imagination and expressing his time, and who achieved recognition, albeit delayed, in 1938, through Dimitris Pikionis’ exhibition ‘in the art of Greek tradition’.

DIRECTORATE OF LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS – MUNICIPAL GALLERY OF THESSALONIKI

OPENING: 9 ΟCΤ, 20:00
DURATION 10.10-30.11

Ώρα

Οκτώβριος 10 (Τρίτη) 20:00 - Νοέμβριος 30 (Πέμπτη) 20:00(GMT+00:00)

Τοποθεσία

CASA BIANCA