Donations

National Gallery of Greece presents an exhibition based on Greek artist's donations (1910 -2012)

Unfortunatelly the National Gallery couldn't provide a text in english about the exhibition, the link of the description of the exhibition (in Greek) is here

The exhibition will be open until 31.01.2013

These photos are my "highlights" from that exhibition.

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 ]