A virtual tour of the exhibition «DIACHRONIES»
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE COLLECTIONS OF THE
DIACHRONIC MUSEUM OF LARISSA
AND CONTEMPORARY GREEK ARTISTS
AT THE «HELLENIC COSMOS» CULTURAL CENTRE
OF THE FOUNDATION OF THE HELLENIC WORLD
Curated by: Iris Kritikou
The exhibition «DIACHRONIES», which was first presented in May 2018 at the Diachronic Museum of Larissa, is being presented in Athens for the first time from February 25, 2020, at the «Hellenic Cosmos» Cultural Centre. The exhibition is an organic dialogue between the original exhibits from the collections of the Museum of Larissa and works by contemporary Greek artists.
Following the corresponding chronological route covered by the museum exhibits (significant prehistoric finds such as house models, tools and figurines, Iron Age weapons, archaic objects, classical and Roman sculptures and funerary steles, jewelry, glass objects and vessels, coins and gold wreaths, Roman mosaic floors with emphasis on the worship and depiction of Dionysus, early Byzantine reliefs, ceramic plates, Byzantine icons and frescoes, Jewish funerary steles, fresco fragments from the unique Schwartz houses in Ambelakia, as well as Islamic objects), 52 significant Greek artists, in collaboration with the museum's scientific team and the exhibition's curator, propose existing works or create new ones in dialogue with the museum's permanent exhibits, with the intention of an organic dialogue with them, as well as the affirmation of the concept of Diachrony that runs through Greek art both thematically and technically, as well as aesthetically or symbolically.
