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Louise Bourgeois: <EM>Avenza Revisited II,</EM> 1968-1969. © Louise Bourgeois.Courtesy the artist, Hauser &amp; Wirth and Cheim &amp; Read, New York.Photo: Christopher BurkePhoto courtesy of Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens
Louise Bourgeois: Avenza Revisited II, 1968-1969. © Louise Bourgeois.
Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Cheim & Read, New York.
Photo: Christopher Burke
Photo courtesy of Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens
Louise Bourgeois: Personages
ATHENS  •  Museum of Cycladic Art  •  12 May - 12 September 2010
 
Born in Paris in 1911, Bourgeois went to the United States in 1938, where she died (New York, 31 May 2010). A legendary figure in the history of contemporary art, she dedicated herself to an ongoing renewal of her expressive means as she dug tirelessly deeper and deeper into the unconscious. Recurring themes in her work included childhood, the difficulties of adolescence, sexuality and the fear of decay and death. This exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art features eight representative sculptures from her acclaimed Personages series, including the celebrated Avenza Revisited II (1968-1969). Made between 1947-1953, they were originally carved in wood and intended to be produced in bronze. These life-size sculptures were designed to be seen in groups, like social groups of standing figures.

Avenza Revisited II belongs to a group of works that the artist described as representing an ‘anthropomorphic’ landscape, inspired, in that case, from Avenza, an area in Carrara, Italy, which is a region famous for its marble quarries, where Bourgeois worked in stone. Two of Bourgeois’s more recent series of vivid red gouaches are also on view and reveal the artist’s preoccupation with the relationships of family, with coupling, pregnancy and child rearing.


Museum of Cycladic Art Website


Contact: Museum of Cycladic Art
4, Neophytou Douka street
Athens 106 74
Greece
Tel: (30) 210 7228321-3

Events in Pop Culture and Cinema

National Theatre of Greece
National Theatre of Greece
Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2010
ATHENS  •  various venues  •  2 June - 14 August 2010
 

It seems that ages have gone by since Maria Callas stunned the audience by performing Norma at the Epidaurus Theatre as part of events celebrating the Greek Festival in 1960. The 2010 Greek Festival spans from June to mid –August with old and new venues hosting the events, such as the Herodus Attikus Theatre, the Benaki Museum, and the Building H at the Peiraios 260 complex. Highlights this year include Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra (23 June), Jean Philippe Rameau's Pygmalion with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants (26 - 28 June), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra (30 June), Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, directed by: Krzystoff Warlikowsky starring Isabelle Huppert (2 - 5 July), Benjamin Millepied – Danses Concertantes (2 July), Tanztheater Wuppertal - Pina Bausch (7 - 15 July), Concert tribute to Mikis Theodorakis (8 July), Caetano Veloso (12 July) Christina Branco & Chocolate Quintet (23 - 24 July).

Ancient Theater at Epidaurus 2010 productions include Oedipus Rex by Sophocles (9 - 10 July),  Lysistrata by Aristophanes (16 - 17 July), The Acharnians by Aristophanes (23 - 24 July), Orestes By Euripides (30 - 31 July) Othello by William Shakespeare World Premiere (6 – 7 August 2010)



Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2010


Contact: Tel: (30) 210 92 82 900



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