12/9/2023 0 Comments Free instal Return to Abyss![]() ![]() ![]() Be prepared to be moved, shocked and stimulated. Let’s set the scene of this atmospheric exhibition: the brick walls of the shady basement of the Athens Conservatoire, and 6 rooms filled with contemporaneity’s multifariousness, presenting the stages of life (from the trauma of birth, to the return to the abyss) via an altogether thought-provoking artistic experience. Because what is life if it isn’t creation. How? By cultivating a single field, by kissing a woman, by studying a stone, an animal, an idea.” In this exhibition, we see how contemporary artists’ original creative practices and methods, are another way of making the best out of this ‘luminous interval’ it makes you realise among other things, the complexity and fragility of human existence, counterbalanced by the constant evolution of human creativity. New generations tread on the corpses of their fathers, continue the work above the abyss and struggle to tame the dreaded mystery. ‘Flying Over the Abyss’ has been inspired by Kazantzakis’ description of life as a ‘luminous interval’ or an arena, over an abyss: “Within this arena, which grows more stable night after day, generations work and love and hope and vanish. It makes for a unique art experience of international standards, and what’s more, entrance is free. Impeccably curated by Dimitris Palaiocrassas and Maria Marangou, this exhibition is made up of works from the collection of Dimitris Daskalopoulos (the D.Daskalopoulos Collection). Comprising 41 works, by 34 international and Greek artists, but also including the original manuscript of Nikos Kazantzakis’ ‘Ascesis: Saviours of the Gods’, the show presents the diversity of the contemporary art scene in terms of mediums and expression. NEON organisation’s contemporary art show ‘Flying Over the Abyss’, is another example of how Athens is both exceedingly ancient and totally avant-garde. ![]()
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