State Of Our Affairs

 

Morning wears a veil of rain above the city I live in

The traffic‘s edging forward again

But no-one knows where they're going

Could it be a sign of our affairs

I'm seeing

 

Cause we'll still be here

When weather turns, and blue skies reappear

And you're crestfallen

Well you climb Mt. Desolation yet again

And you find we're all just ordinary men.

 

Find some comfort in a bar and hear the news from my brother

He tore his happiness apart and says his heart won't recover

Is this just a sign of our affairs

I'm seeing?

Cause we'll still be here

When weather turns, and blue skies reappear

When you're crestfallen

You climb Mt. Desolation yet again

And you find we're all just ordinary men

Mt. Desolation

Paper Money

 

Heaven's so far away

Heaven, just a taste

Heaven's so far away

Cherry, cherry, cherry, baby

Heaven's so far away

Cherry on your lips

Heaven's so far away

Tell me baby

Who's your dady?

Can't love like me

Keep it burning baby

Life paper money

Give it to you easy

Keep it burning baby

Cherry on your lips

Is heaven's so far away

Don't you ever leave me baby

I believe that you can save me

Heaven, just a taste

Heaven's so far away

You're gonna get me high

You can do it baby

You're gonna get me high

Keep it burning baby

You're gonna get me high

Like paper money

Girl, who's your dady

who's your dady

Can't love like

You can't love like me

I can't burn it baby

I'm paper money

Girl you know I'm your dady

You can't love like me

Can you love me baby

You can't love like me

I keep it burning baby

Like paper money

I keep it burning baby

Heaven's so far away

Soulsavers

Unknown Treasures in the National Gallery Collections p.B

Part B

 
This has been the most ambitious and substantial goal of this team project. As a rule, an exhibition is curated by a single art historian, perhaps with support by others; yet, both the exhibition concept and its implementation are his or hers and his or hers only.

 In this particular case, though, each one of the eight curators, who are in charge of a specific period in the history of Modern Greek art and the respective section in the collections, was tasked with making her own selection, in a spirit of freedom uninfluenced by fellow curators.

There were included drawings by renowned Italian and Flemish painters, as well as celebrated prints by legendary artists, among them 38 works by Dürer and 16 invaluable etchings by Rembrandt.

Yet, the curators assigned to select, conceptualize and group Modern Greek art from their respective areas of responsibility, in fact propose individual exhibitions compiled into one. Each curator selected works according to her own personal standards and developed a display according to her own reading of art history.

Different methodological approaches are therefore at work here, corresponding to successive moments in the history of Modern Greek art. These sections, not only propose a unique interpretation of featured works, but reflect the distinct academic approaches of the art historians.  

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Unknown Treasures in the National Gallery Collections p.A

Part A

Unknown Treasures in the National Gallery Collections was the last major event that was organised before the National Gallery embarks on its expansion project.

Featured works from the National Gallery and Evripidis Koutlidis Foundation collections,  we wished to bid our farewell to the old museum by displaying a selection of the important works scheduled to form part of the permanent display after the completion of the expansion project.

 

With twice as large a display area, the new National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum will be able, not only better to preserve the artistic heritage of Greece in its collections, but also to mount exhibitions featuring a far larger number of works for the benefit of the public; a wider-ranging exhibition agenda, moreover, will be made possible.

 

The unknown treasures of the National Gallery that was on display in this exhibition can claim a place in the light, not only thanks to their high quality, but also because they shed new light to the narrative of Modern Greek art history.

 

Picasso's Woman's Head was given to Greece in 1949 in recognition of the country's resistance to Nazi Germany. It was stolen after the exhibition.

The National Gallery curators who selected these works were called upon to explore this uncharted territory....  [  source + info ] 

Walksong

 

Walking in the streets of real

searching for sounds

I try to be blind

So much to captive

only by ears

see can do fine

 

Life is all around us

we live right in it

Do you pay attention?

It's magic!

 

Wherever we are

whatever we do

let's keep it in mind

Life is all around us

we live right in it

do you pay attention?

It's magic!

 

Hess Is More

Byzantine

 

Spin my dradle and I will split your atom

Spin the bottle and I will play assassin

We parachute to ground for we fear the empire

 

Pale meadows crumble on

Well I'm waiting for the sun to go out

We won't fear

 

Dripping like a sunday

Standing at my doorstep

Cloudy like a pigpen (we won't fear)

Wearing an old boar's head

I would like to help you

I would like to wake up

I would like to ask you (we won't fear)

If you'd rather close up

 

You could help me figure out this time

Figure out this time

We parachute to ground for we fear the empire.

 

Pinback

I thought I saw a seahorse near your window

For You

I like you

you don't make my cry

I like you

you always make me smile

you slide across the moamma

we dance into a coma

I like you

and I don't even have to

I don't even have to try

 I don't know what it is

you just say all the right things

I don't know what it is

about you

 I like you

you kiss me hello

I like you

you never make me toast

you're taking such a long time

I'm having such a nice time

I like you

and I'd like to stay up all night

with you

Elephant Parade

The year of three winters

Elika Gallery is presenting from January 10th until February 18th, the first solo exhibition of Yannis Malegiannakis titled “the year of three winters”.

 

The painting of Malegiannakis is, in a way, depicts the gaze of the painter – observer into the space. A space, not so tangible and real, but one that is being implied, dissolved and emerges through the personal view.

The works are often created in situ, like a contemporary topography of interior spaces. Thus, the distance between the painter and the object is as vital as the painter and the object themselves.

 Through the exploration of the media (oil or charcoal), Malegiannakis is invited to portray this “gap” that almost breaths, exists and defines or repositions the limits of the real.

Fairy Tales In The City

 

Little Red Riding Hood

 

Ali Baba ( and the Forty Thieves )

Jack and the Beanstalk ( The Giant )

The Three Musketeers ( D'Artagnan )