‘When the light dances, I speak truthfully.’ George Seferis and his poetry through painting and photography.

The V. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music continues its series of exhibitions dedicated to leading Greek poets. Thus, following ‘The World of Odysseas Elytis: Poetry and Painting’, which was first presented in Athens in 2011 and, four years later, at the Teloglion Foundation of Arts – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with the exhibition ‘C. P. Cavafy – Paintings: 40 Contemporary Greek Artists’, which was exhibited in Athens in 2013, the exhibition ‘When the light dances, I speak rightly. George Seferis and his poetry through painting and photography’ will now be presented. The Black Shining Sun of Summer, 2017Kostas TsoclisSand, 130 x 100 cmArtist’s collectionThe exhibition will be opened on Wednesday, 8 November 2017, at 8.00 pm by the President of the Republic, Mr Prokopios Pavlopoulos. The exhibition is curated by Takis Mavrotas, Director of the Visual Arts Programme at the V. & M. Theocharakis Foundation, with the support of Panagiotis Roilos, Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Comparative Literature, holder of the ‘George Seferis’ Chair at Harvard University (which is celebrating its fortieth anniversary). On display will be manuscripts, personal items, works and objects he painted himself, the Nobel Prize awarded to him by the Swedish Academy in 1963, and original works by leading Greek artists who were or are inspired by Seferis’s poetry, such as Adamantios Diamantis, Spyros Vassiliou, Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Gikas, Yannis Tsarouchis, Tassos, Yannis Moralis, Giorgos Sikelotis, Panagiotis Tetsis, Vasilis Theocharakis, Christos Karas, Kostas Tsoklis, Alekos Fassianos, Sotiris Sorogas, Michalis Makroulakis, Theodoros Papagiannis, Alekos Levidis, Platon Rivellis, Apostolos Fanakidis, Giannis Psychopedis, Vicky Tsalamata, Vana Xenos, Giannis Adamakos, Stefanos Daskalakis, Aphrodite Liti, Michalis Arfaras, Thanasis Makris, Christos Bokoros, Edouard Sakagian, Kostas Papanikolaou, Manolis Haros, Alexandra Athanasiadi, Giorgos Rorris, Vasilis Selimas, Alexis Veroukas, Venya Behraki, Leda Kontogiannopoulou, Aspasios Charonitakis and Nikos Tranos. At the same time, works by Panagiotis Zografos (1790–1840 or 1843) and Theophilos Hatzimichael (1873–1934) will be exhibited alongside the poet’s comments on their paintings.  In the Blonde Sand, 1971Spyros VassiliouAcrylic, sand and collage on canvas, 81 x 116 cmGeorge Niarchos CollectionThe exhibition will be accompanied by a bilingual catalogue featuring texts by Eleni Arveler, Panagiotis Roilos, Takis Mavrotas and Dimitris Daskalopoulos. All the exhibits are on loan from Mrs Anna Lontou, the Gennadius Library, the National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum, MIET, the Benaki Museum, Ikaros Publications, the participating visual artists, and others. Exhibition Curator: Takis Mavrotas Dates: 3 November 2017–21 January 2018 Admission: €6, €3 (for students, for pupils aged 12 to 18, for people over 65), free (for the unemployed, for pupils aged 12 and under)Opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 10:00–18:00 Thursday: 10:00–20:00 (October–May)B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music | 9 Vas. Sofias & 1 Merlin, 10671, Athens Find out more about George Seferis and his books here.