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Press Release
Gods Becoming Men
Curated by Edward Lucie-Smith
14th July-10th Sept
Frissiras Museum Athens
3 & 7 Monis Asteriou
Plaka (at the junction of Kydathineon St.)
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www.godsbecomingmen.com
ATHENS, GREECE.- The Frissiras Museum Athens will present “Gods
Becoming Men,” from July 14 to September 20, 2004. The
exhibition is being curated by art historian Edward Lucie-Smith.
’Gods Becoming Men’ may seem a perverse title for
an exhibition that is, in part at least, intended to be a celebration
of the Olympic Games. The Olympics, surely, are about athletes
who attain semi-divine status through physical prowess. Yet
the Games are also about other things - they are about those
who compete and fall short of their objectives - the athlete
who arrives as a demi-god may depart as a mere mortal. And they
are about the descent of the god into mere mortal flesh - that
is, about both transcendence and self-transcendence. I hope
the visitor to this show will get at least some flashes of all
these ideas.
’Gods
Becoming Men’, at the privately owned Frissiras Museum,
which occupies two handsomely converted 19th century mansions
in the Plaka, in the very heart of Athens, is in many ways a
riposte to this - in geographical terms, in exploitation of
technological wizardry, and in philosophical approach. The artists
hail from locations throughout the world: all the Chinas [mainland
China, Taiwan and Hong Kong], Israel, India, Indonesia, Iran,
Brazil and Jamaica, as well as from Greece itself, Russia, the
Czech Republic, Sweden, the United States and the United Kingdom,
The centrepiece of the show is an installation by two young
Australian artists, Tim Maslen and Jennifer Mehra.
Artists
include Jonathon Webb USA, Maslen & Mehra
Australia/UK,Michal Chelbin Israel, Marilene Oliver Britain,
Fereydoun Ave Iran, Tara Sosrowardoyo Indonesia, Sui Jianguo
China, Per Wizen Sweden, Lars Siltberg Sweden, Genia Chef Russia,
Olga Tobreluts Russia, Ivan Pinkava Czech Republic, Jivanii
RedMark Jamaica, Kim Poor Brasil, Bernadette De Cunha India,
Dimitris Yeros Greece, Viktor Koen Greece/USA, Marc Wayland
Britain, Edward Lucie-Smith, Paul Hodgson Britain,Ho Siu-Kee,Hong
Kong China, Mark Soosar Estonia, Weng Fen China
Limited edition giclee
prints by Maslen & Mehra available
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