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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-12-22

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From: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>

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  • [01] Akrithakis exhibition features famed 'Bar' installation
  • [02] ASE opening: Decline

  • [01] Akrithakis exhibition features famed 'Bar' installation

    ANA-MPA/An exhibition of works by one of the most significant representatives of post-war art in Greece, Alexis Akrithakis (1939-1994), will be on display at the Kalfayan Gallery in Athens through January 29.

    The showcase exhibit is Akrithakis' renowned "Bar", an exceptional historical wooden installation, which belonged to an American collection and recently returned to Greece.

    This is the first exhibition of the historic installation artwork since its initial presentation at the Bernier Gallery in 1981.ana-mpa

    The Akrithakis display is one of the annual exhibitions held by Kalfayan Galleries (Athens and Thessaloniki) dedicated to the most important Greek representatives of Modernism.

    Known for his colorful palette and playful, though sometimes ironic, themes, Akrithakis remains one of the most important figures of post war art in Greece. Largely self-taught, Akrithakis embarked on an intellectual and artistic life that led him from Athens to Paris and then to Berlin in 1968 where he spent some of his most creative and productive years before returning to Athens in 1984.

    Two works in the exhibition are dedicated to his friends, the writer Kostas Tachtsis and the poet and intellectual, George Makris. Akrithakis kept company with intellectuals in Athens and later, in Berlin, through his wife's restaurant, Fofi's, when it became a meeting place for the artistic world of the German capital.ANA-MPA

    A microcosm of archetypal symbols and images of personal experiences flows through his works: flowers and flags, suitcases and bicycles, the heart and the sun come together to create magical worlds in paintings, watercolors and wood constructions. In his tsiki-tsiki drawings, as Tachtsis called them, labyrinthine lines drawn in pen and ink conjure up imaginary worlds in an automatic script. Akrithakis created a visual mythology in which travel and adventure played a major role and the symbols that he used repeatedly -the suitcase, the bicycle, the airplane - evoked a desire for escape that was not only physical but psychological as well.

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    [02] ASE opening: Decline

    Equity prices were declining at the opening of trade on Wednesday on the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), with the basic share price index down 0.47 percent, standing at 1,452.29 points at 11:15 am, and turnover at 8.677 million euros.

    Individual sector indices were mixed, with the biggest gains in Insurance, up 1.54 percent; and Health, up 1.61 percent.

    The biggest losses were in Food and Beverages, down 0.81 percent and Banks, down 0.64 percent.

    The FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavily traded stocks was down 0.62 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index was up 0.42 percent, and the FTSE/ASE-80 small cap index was down 0.15 percent.

    Of the stocks traded, 25 were up, 29 were down, and 18 were unchanged.

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