Στις 18 Μαΐου 2016 ανοίγει το Νέο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θέρμου

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Η Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Αιτωλοακαρνανίας και Λευκάδος γνωστοποιεί ότι το Νέο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θέρμου πρόκειται να ανοίξει τις πύλες του στο κοινό την Τετάρτη 18 Μαΐου 2016, Διεθνή Ημέρα των Μουσείων. Πρόκειται φυσικά για μια σημαντική ημέρα για την Αιτωλοακαρνανία.

Με αφορμή την έναρξη λειτουργίας του, η Εφορεία Αρχαιοτήτων Αιτωλοακαρνανίας και Λευκάδος καλεί σε εκδήλωση, η οποία θα περιλαμβάνει την παρουσίαση του έργου και ξενάγηση στο Μουσείο από τη Διευθύντρια της Εφορείας.

Η εκδήλωση θα πραγματοποιηθεί ώρα 18:00 στον αύλειο χώρο του Μουσείου και θα πλαισιώνεται από την Ορχήστρα Νυκτών Εγχόρδων του Συλλόγου «ΔΡΑΣΗ» Νεοχωρίου Μεσολογγίου, υπό τη διεύθυνση Σπύρου Χολέβα, χορηγία του Δήμου Θέρμου και της Εταιρείας Φίλων Μουσείου και Αρχαιολογικού Χώρου Θέρμου.

Στις 18 Μαΐου 2016 ανοίγει το Νέο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θέρμου

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#Bornonthisday Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German expressionist painter and printmaker and one of the founders of the artists group Die Brücke or “The Bridge”, a key group leading to the foundation of Expressionism in 20th-century art.

Zentrum Paul Klee || Exhibition: Paul Klee. Pictures in Motion || until 08.01.2017

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Walking and striding, dancing and gliding; water in motion, centrifugal forces and the transcendence of gravity in flight – ‹Motion is at the root of all growth›, as Paul Klee wrote in 1920.

A major exhibition of works from our collection will illustrate Klee’s fascination for any form of movement.

It will be complemented by a series of interdisciplinary events about dance, perhaps the most versatile form of human movement, in co-operation with Dampfzentrale Bern.

The exhibition will be held in three phases (19/01—01/05/2016 | 03/05—28/08/2016 | 03/09—08/01/2017) each with a different focus. The exhibition also addresses movement processes in nature, the dialectic between hindered and free, static and dynamic movement, the development of effective and centrifugal force as well as the motion of the elements.

Dance movements
The dynamics of movement and expression in dance gave Paul Klee important creative impulses. He studied the developments of contemporary dance. At the same time the Bauhaus was engaging with stage and dance. The central figure in the design of new abstract forms of dance was Oskar Schlemmer. With his “Triadic Ballet” he redefined the relationship between figure and space. Many actors and dancers had friendly associations with the Bauhaus. The dancer Gret Palucca, for example, was friends with Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. She was fascinated by the works of the Bauhaus artists. In return, the artists watched her modern, expressive dance performances with great excitement. Gret Palucca was one of the leading figures in the new dance of the 1920s. First of all she was a member of the troop of the dance pioneer Mary Wigman, and went on to develop a dance style of her own. The pattern of movements of her dances revealed parallels with the abstract art of Kandinsky, Mondrian and Klee.

The burden of things
“A complete subjection to the commandment of the plumbline means the state of the position. One lies and abandons any counter-effect. One exposes oneself along one’s whole length to the plumbline.”
Paul Klee, Theory of Pictorial Configuration, Mechanics, BG II 21/13

Like all living creatures and everything material on earth human beings are subject to the law of gravity – the “plumbline” as Klee called it. Gravity inhibits movement or even brings it to a standstill. Human beings remain in the “fate of boundedness”. The consequence is a position of rest which Klee describes as “position”. For Klee stasis was only a special case, because as he saw it: “The usual state of things is: the state of motion.” In his reflections Klee referred to Goethe’s theory of metamorphosis, in which nature is shown as eternally changeable and agitated without ever coming to a standstill. In Klee’s works themes such as heaviness, burden and gravity appear, expressed by certain motifs, but also by formal pictorial elements such as colours or planes.

Walking, striding, running, jumping
“The body can generally, by ‘creeping along’ or ‘striding along’, change its place, continuously taking the plumbline into account, always carrying it into motion. (…) In particularly accelerated kinds of motion the static rule is abandoned for repeated short moments, and during those moments no foot touches the ground: one jumps.”
Paul Klee, Theory of Pictorial Configuration, Mechanics, BG II.21/77

For Klee walking, running and jumping are, as acts of movement, bound up with gravity and at the same time overcoming it. With every step and every jump human beings, with their muscle power, defy gravity. As they set their feet back down they are once more bound to gravity. In Klee’s work people stroll, hurry and walk past, run after, strut and even somersault over the ground. Klee associated themes such as balance and rhythm with striding.

Limits of motion
In the earthly realm the energy of uninhibited, free motion encounters limits. It encounters obstacles which restrict processes of motion and guide them in new directions. Limitations of this kind are thresholds and dams in the water like the power of gravity, which obstructs upward ascent. To the limited and inhibited movement of the body Klee opposed free spirituality and intellectual independence.

In the “in-between realm”: water movements
“This fate of boundedness should, however, not keep us from knowing that (…) there are regions where different laws apply: the in-between realm of water. (…) In water, as any swimmer is aware, gravity, through the new element and its new weight, gravity, defined by the attraction of the earth, acts in the opposite direction, namely upwards.”
Paul Klee, Pictorial Formation, BF 64

Klee called water an “in-between realm”. In this realm gravity is neutralised by the counter-force of upward propulsion, and movements in a free, flowing form become possible. Everything solid becomes fluid. The fish moves uninhibitedly in its element, and even human beings overcome gravity by swimming and diving.

Movement of the free line
Movement was a fundamental principle in Klee’s thinking, both in his reflections on composition and in his artistic work. Composition begins, for example, at the moment when a point is set in motion. This produces a line, which can finally create forms. In its unrestrained elaboration movement develops as a free line – “in a walk for its own sake”.

Colour movements
Klee investigated the relations between colours in his teaching at the Bauhaus. He referred primarily to the colour theories of Goethe and Philipp Otto Runge and their colour circles or colour spheres. He also pursued many theoretical approaches further as a painter. Here he composed freely and was interested in the mixture and fine gradation of colours as well as their application in various techniques. Klee produced dynamic compositions through the precise combination of coloured planes. In the early 1930s, for example, he examined the effect of the application of coloured dabs and achieved a vibrant, agitated expression.

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack
Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack won international renown principally for his colour-light plays. Hirschfeld-Mack worked at the Bauhaus from 1920. He devoted himself to colour-light plays, which lie somewhere between painting and abstract avant-garde film. In these he experimented with light, projections and stencils, and also engaged with the media of film. He multiplied light sources and coloured them with filters. Through the use of stencils the coloured lights were finally set in motion.

Paul Klee, They all Run after Him!, 1940, 325, coloured paste on paper on cardboard, 32 x 42,4 cm, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

Paul Klee, The Light and the Sharpnesses, 1935, 102, watercolour and pencil on paper on cardboard, 32 x 48 cm, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

Paul Klee, The Step, 1932, 319, oil and pencil on burlap, 71 x 55,5 cm, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Schenkung Livia Klee

Paul Klee, Genii (Figures from a Ballet), 1922, 122, pen, watercolour and pencil on paper on cardboard, 24 x 16,4/15,9 cm, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

Paul Klee, Centrifugal Forces, 1929, 267, watercolour on paper on cardboard, 24,5 x 23,5 cm, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

Paul Klee, Southern dancer, 1908, 23, reverse glass painting; reconstructed frame, 12 x 9 cm, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

Paul Klee, Migrating Fishes, 1926, 212, pen and pencil on paper on cardboard, 22,3 x 27,5 cm, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Leihgabe aus Privatbesitz

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Onassis Cultural Centre || Festival: Hypnos Project || until 19.06.2016

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What happens to the body during sleep? How do we spend one third of our lives? During sleep our most secret and repressed self emerges. At the same time, our body becomes vulnerable.

The Hypnos Project is a festival of the Onassis Cultural Centre. It consists of an exhibition of modern and contemporary art, a series of performances and sleepovers, a series of sound works and walks, lectures and discussions, a theatre production, a pyjama party, and a special magazine issue.

Curators: Afroditi Panagiotakou, Elisavet Pantazi, Theophilos Tramboulis, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, Pasqua Vorgia
Coordination: Elisavet Pantazi, Konstantina Soulioti, Pasqua Vorgia
Concept: Afroditi Panagiotakou, Elisavet Pantazi

Architectural Design: FLUX – office (Eva Manidaki & Thanassis Demiris)

Events in the context of Hypnos Project include:

Main Exhibition | Click here to read more about the exhibition and book your tickets
The Hypnos Project brings to the public 65 masterpieces of Greek art to the exhibition hall of the Onassis Cultural Centre and to the Onassis Library (56 V. Amalias Avenue). Works by contemporary artists, as well as archival data and transcribed examples from local popular culture, in an attempt to not only mutally interract but also transform each other.

Exhibition at the OCC opening hours: everyday 12:00-21:00
Exhibition at the Onassis Library opening hours: Wednesday-Friday 12:00-20:00 & Saturday-Sunday 11:00-15:00

Performance by FYTA | 18 April | Free admission | OCC
A performance by FYTA will take place at the opening of the Main Exhibition, based on the slumber and awakening of the nation and its language.

Performance by Christodoulos Panayiotou | 23–24 April | 20:00 | Free admission – It is necessary to book your seat at boxoffice@sgt.gr| Onassis Library (56 V. Amalias Avenue)
A performance-lecture by Christodoulos Panayiotou, titled Dying on Stage, in collaboration with the dancer Jean Capeille and the composer and pianist Kyriakos Spyrou. A reflection on the impossibility of representing death on stage.

Nova Melancholia Performance | 7-8, 14-15, 21-22 and 28-19 May | 21:00 | Click here to book your tickets | Duration: 1 hour | Age guidance: 18+ | Galaxia & Sfiggos str. (behind the OCC building)
An original work based on Georges Bataille’s story The Dead Man by the contemporary theatre and performance group Nova Melancholia.

Tickets | Full price: 7 € | Reduced / Friends / Small groups (5-9 people): 5 € | People with disabilities – Companions / Unemployed / Large groups (10+ people): 3 €

Exhibition and performances’ curators: Theophilos Tramboulis, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis

Hypnos Project Events

Hypnos Clinic | 19-23 April and 6-10 May | Free admission – Thank you for your interest. The limited number of seats are now reserved. | OCC
Τhere will be a ten-day sleep clinic in the Onassis Cultural Centre; participants’ bodily reactions during night sleep will be recorded.
In collaboration with doctor/pulmonologist Martha Andritsou, scientific collaborator of Evangelismos Hospital’s Sleeping Study Center.

Quatuor Diotima | 20 April 2016 | 21:00 | Parnassos Literary Society (Karitsi sq 8, Athens) | Click here to read more information and book your tickets
The celebrated French Quatuor Diotima returns to the Onassis Cultural Centre in the context of the Hypnos Project with night as its theme. Diotima will perform Ainsi la nuit by Henri Dutilleux (1916-2013) and Métamorphoses nocturnes, an early work of Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006). The concert will end with a landmark work marking the dawn of twentieth-century music, Verklärte Nacht by Arnold Schönberg (1874-1951). A work of abstract programme music, without words, it is based on a poem by R. Dehmel.

‘Farewell’: Lecture-Performance with Christiana Galanopoulou | 7 & 8 May | 20:00 | Free admission – It is necessary to book your seat at boxoffice@sgt.gr | Onassis Library (56 V. Amalias Avenue)
Following the Sleeping Girls in the secretive paths of their sleep, art historian Christiana Galanopoulou invites us on a journey exploring works of art of different eras in texts, locations, archaeological sites, but also in moments of contemporary reality and people’s stories, thus weaving a narrative about life, what lies beyond, and eternity.

Polysomnogarden | 19 May – 2 June | Evridamantos & Galaxia str. (behind the OCC building)
The medical data from the sleep clinic will be used for the creation of a visual installation by Marina Gioti. The stages of sleep will be transformed into an ever-changing visual environment with sounds, lights, projections, and moving sculptures.

Cinemarathon Let’s (not) go to sleep | 13-14 May | 22:00 | Upper Stage | Click here to see the programme and book your tickets
A 24-hour cinemarathon with films and documentaries related to the topic of sleep.
Curator: Elias Fragoulis

six d.o.g.s pyjama party | 14 May | 00:00 | Free admission | In all the floors of the OCC | Click here to read more information
DJ sets will take place in all the floors of the Onassis Cultural Centre, from midnight to dawn, in what will be an unforgettable midnight party.

Lectures and Discussions
Dreams | 16 May | 19:00 | Free admission | Upper Stage
The discussion will feature psychoanalyst Dany Nobus, Director of the Freud Museum, London.

The Theta Series – All-Night Event at the Onassis Cultural Centre | 29 May | 22:00 | Duration: till the morning (breakfast is included) | Main Stage | Click here to book your tickets
An all-night experiental event will take place at the Main Stage of the Onassis Cultural Centre by choreographer and Onassis Foundation Fellow Apostolia Papadamaki, in collaboration with composer Trifon Koutsourelis.

Tickets | Full price for all the evening: 15 € | Reduced / Friends / Small groups (5-9 people): 12 € | People with disabilities – Companions / Unemployed / Large groups (10+ people): 10 €

Photographic Projections in public buildings in Athens | 18 April – 19 June
Artists, dancers, and actors will be photographed while sleeping by Pavlos Fysakis. The photographs will be projected in public buildings in Kafthmonos square, Syggrou avenue and others.

Photographs were taken at the Coco-mat Hotel Kolonaki.

HYPNOS issue
Hypnos Project will be accompanied by an independent bilingual publication on the topic of sleep, which will circulate widely. Academics, specialists, and writers approach the issue of sleep with original ways, each one from his/her own perspective. Together they compose a polyphonic and original anthology, in which sociology co-exists with military studies, architecture with classical philology, short stories with personal testimony.

The Hypnos issue includes articles by: Joanna Bourke, Thodoris Chiotis, Simon Critchley, Vassiliki Kokkori, Elias Magklinis, Panagiotis Menegos, Sofia Nikolaidou, Afroditi Panagiotakou, Panagis Panagiotopoulos, Anna Papaeti, Dimosthenis Papamarkos, Dimitris Papanikolaou, Matina Pashalis, Aris Sarafianos, Patti Smith, James Stavridis, Konstantinos Tzamiotis, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, Theophilos Tramboulis, Dimitra Vogiatzaki.