Thursday, March 28 2024

A guided tour open to the public will take place on Holy Tuesday, April 19, at 7 p.m., by the general curator of the exhibition “Greece after the Revolution Artistic Treasures from the Krasakis collection”, Dimitris Andreadakis, which is hosted at the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania.

As stated in a statement by the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania “works of art and relics presented for the first time to the public compose the exhibition “Greece after the Revolution – Artistic Treasures from the Krasaki Collection”, organized by the Municipality of Chania.

The exhibition is under the auspices of the President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, who will inaugurate it on October 30, 2021 at the City’s Municipal Art Gallery. This is the most important event that takes place in Crete in the context of the celebrations since the 200 years of the declaration of the Greek Revolution.

Rare paintings and sculptures, lithographs and drawings, by Greek and European philhellene painters of the 19th and 20th centuries, with signatures such as those of Nikolaos Gyzis, Nikiforos Lytras, Theodoros Vryzakis and Theodoros Rallis, among others, utilitarian objects, watches and costumes, weapons and publications compose the exhibition that includes 167 of the 1,500 objects of the Krasakis collection.

The private collection of Tina and Michalis Krasakis is based in Germany and for the first time in more than five decades since its establishment it is presented publicly and even in the birthplace of the collector and journalist of Deutche Welle, Michalis Krassakis, Crete.

Porcelain meets brass, oil goes hand in hand with pen, fabric “converses” with metal and the creations of visual artists, illustrators and craftsmen through ten sections that form an image, which not only focuses on Crete and its involvement in the Revolution, but covers many different aspects of the revolutionary and post-revolutionary period.

The exhibition is curated by the painter, associate professor at the School of Architectural Engineering of the Technical University of Crete and Vice-President of the Gallery of Chania, Dimitris Andreadakis.

It is accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue of 400 pages (in Greek, English and German) with texts by the writer Katerina Schina, the writer and journalist Nikos Psilakis, the art historian and curator of the collections of the Greek Parliament Thodoris Koutsoyiannis and the historian-researcher Eftichis Tzirtzilakis.

The exhibition, apart from the premises of the Municipal Art Gallery of Chania, is also hosted in the halls of the Philological Association “Chrysostomos”, which is the oldest intellectual and cultural association not only of the city of Chania, but also of the whole of Crete, as it was founded in 1899″.

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