"The World of Odysseas Elytis. Poetry and Painting" at the Teloglion Foundation

The Teloglion Foundation, having organised a series of significant exhibitions, continues its major retrospectives on artists who have influenced and continue to influence contemporary artistic creation. On 18 March, the exhibition ‘The World of Odysseas Elytis: Poetry and Painting’ opens to mark the 20th anniversary of his death.The exhibition will comprise three sections: a) Elytis’s paintings and collages, b) excerpts from his aesthetic essays on great painters and sculptors (such as Panagiotis Zografos, Matisse, Picasso, Theophilos, Parthenis, Hatzikyriakos-Gikas, Engonopoulos, Kapralos, Nikolaou, Tsarouchis, Kanellis, Moralis, Fassianos, Derpapas), which will be accompanied by representative works by these artists. The same section will also feature the poet’s manuscripts, his first editions and a wealth of archival material (the Nobel Prize, documents, etc.). c) Works by distinguished contemporary artists inspired by Elytis’s poetry (N. Mela, Tetsis, Theocharakis, Tsoklis, Paniaras, Sorogas, Makroupalis, Botsoglou, Papagiannis, Psychopedis, Kottis, Adamakos, Pantelias, Varotsos, Bokoros, Lappas, Liti). The exhibition is curated by Takis Mavrotas, with the support of the poet Ioulita Iliopoulou. Works and materials have been loaned by the Benaki Museum, the Gennadius Library, the National Gallery, the Theocharakis Foundation and numerous artists and collectors.The exhibition will be opened by the President of the Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, on 18 March 2016 (the 20th anniversary of the poet’s death), and will be honoured by the presence of leading figures from the worlds of literature and the arts.On Monday 21 March 2016, World Poetry Day, the Teloglion Foundation is organising, as part of the exhibition, a concert by composer G. Kouroupou featuring the music of O. Elytis’s poetry at the Royal Theatre.Information on the books by Odysseas Elytis published by Ikaros can be found here.  Especially for the month of March, the commemorative edition "Odysseas Elytis – The Navigator of the Century" will be on sale for €30.00 (40% discount) on our website. If you wish to purchase the book, please enter the discount code NAFTILOS in the discount coupon field.