"Aegean, unwithering sea" is the title of the new photographic exhibition hosted at Athens International Airport from July 30th to October 31st, 2003, in collaboration with the Museum of Greek Folk Art*.
The Aegean, an "unwithering sea" as described by the Greek poet Odysseas Elytis, "emerges" through this exhibition of artistic and ethnographic photography that portrays the cultural diversity of the islands of the Aegean over the years, through the solid bond of the sea, the land, and the people.
The photographic material displayed in the exhibition - 50 photographs of the architect-photographer Velissarios Voutsas – belongs to the rich Photographic Archives of the Museum of Greek Folk Art and presents in thematic groups the landscape, the architecture, the people and their festivities, as well as the objects they use in their household.
One more exhibition of images of Greece will take the travellers of Athens International Airport passing through the corridor leading to Gates B20-B28 (Main Terminal Building, Intra Schengen area), on a "journey across the Aegean".
* The Museum of Greek Folk Art is a state museum under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture / Directorate of Recent Cultural Heritage. The Museum was inaugurated in 1918 and has rich collections of embroideries, woven fabrics, traditional costumes, metal are, silver ware, wood-carvings, ceramics, figures of the shadow theatre, disguise-costumes, popular paintings (by Theophilos Hadzimichail), and a small number of stone reliefs. The objects of these collections cover a chronological period from 1650 to date.
Photographic material from the exhibition is also available in the website of the Ministry of Culture ODYSSEUS www.culture.gr
For additional information and photographic material, you can also contact:
The Museum of Greek Folk Art 17, Kydathineon Str., Plaka Tel: +30 210 32 29 031 Fax: +30 210 32 26 979 Email: melt@melt.culture.gr