Thursday, February 6, 2014

E X H I B I T I O N S
  • Secret Garden @ Benaki Museum
Zoomorphic sculptures, acrobats, angels, mannequins of the future along with a porcupine gather at the Hortus Clausus exhibition, of painter-sculptor Kostis Georgiou at the Benaki Museum (Pireos Street Annex). Twenty-five sculptures are placed in a theatrical manner around the Benaki Museum atrium, so that they function as a private Eden, a walled garden, a hortus clauses. The exhibition will run until March 2.
  • Interactions @ EMST
The exhibition Interactions will be held at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), until March 2. One new and four older photographic works and videos will be exhibited, which deal with issues of identity and representation of the self in different social and physical environments, such as family, personal space and the city. The new project titled Wall, 2013, was created in the peristyle of EMST last summer.

M U S I C
  • French Music Cycle@ Theocharakis Foundation
A tribute to Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel will be held tonight, at the Theocharakis Foundation. Outstanding young pianist Paris Tsenikoglou will play Images and Preludes of Claude Debussy and Gaspard de la Nuit of Maurice Ravel. The concert is part of the French Music Cycle, organized by the Theocharakis Foundation.
  • Ute Lemper @ Gazarte
A living legend in performing arts, the captivating Ute Lemper returns at Gazarte, tonight, for a new, totally different concert. In her show "The Love Poems of Pablo Neruda," Lemper sings eleven poems of Neruda that praise erotic worship and talk about despair and all the dark instincts relating to heartbreak. The show combines the esoteric life of Neruda with the explosive and passionate interpretation of Lemper.

M U S I C A L  T H E A TR E
  • Peter Maxwell Davies Icones @ Megaron
Two challenging works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Miss Donnithorne's Maggot and Vesalii Icones, choreographed and directed by Konstantinos Rigos and performed by Ergon Ensemble, will be staged at the Athens Concert Hall on February 11 and 12. A performance that will bring musical theatre at its limits!