Greek Independence Day Open House Reception at the the Consulate General of Greece in New York
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The Greek Independence Day Open House reception, which will take place on Friday, March 22nd, 2019 at 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. at the premises of the Consulate General of Greece in New York
This year the Open House for the Greek Independence Day will be complemented by the opening of the art exhibition “ἀπόλλυμαι [apóllūmai] ” by Giorgos Taxidis, curated by art historian and researcher Tiffany Apostolou.
Giorgos Taxidis is an artist whose work evolves around the human as a whole being, as much as it evolves around the practice of art itself. Concerned with the inherent need to produce art, to map its role in the expression of self and communication of the Other, Taxidis has produced a body of work including drawing, painting, and installation, that approaches the human psyche deeply and powerfully. It is this work that has been gathered together in ἀπόλλυμαι [apóllūmai].
Through his and his family’s own past of uprooting and immigration, loss and hope, Taxidis traces the intrinsic effort to recall and remember found in all of us, resulting in a powerful and immersive experience. The exhibition evokes one’s own memory of familial pasts, as well as those of loved ones, who in coming from homeland to new land, oftentimes held but few connections with their roots: some soil, an icon, and the ritual of the mnemosyno.