“Antenna first” – Polymorphic, interactive installation
Chania Art Gallery presents a polymorphic, interactive installation by Yannis Markantonakis (curator: Dimitris Angelatos, Professor of Modern Greek Literature and Literary Theory), with the friendly participation of sixteen visual artists, on 8+8 portraits of Italian and European writers from the 80 presented by Antaeus Chrysostomidis and Mikela Chartoulari in the State-owned public television channel “ET1” TV show “The Lightnings of Our Time”: Antonio Tabucchi – Pisa, Umberto Eco – Bologna, Massimo Carlotto – Padova, Donna Leon-Venice, Niccolò Ammaniti – Rome, Dario Fo – Milan, Claudio Magris – Trieste, Andrea Camilleri – Agrigento, Sicily, Maurice Attia – Algiers, Pierre Assouline – Paris, Herta Müller – Berlin, Peter Esterházy – Budapest, Andrey Kurkov – Kiev, Orhan Pamuk – Istanbul, José Saramago – Lisbon, Enrique Vila-Matas – Barcelona.
2nd Chania Book Festival 2022
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“Apofloiosi kai akonisma. O poiitis glyptis: i elegeia stis “Satires” tou K.G. Karyotaki” (“Peeling and sharpening. The poet sculptor: the elegy in K.G. Karyotakis’s “Satires”) by Dimitris Angelatos
The Professor of Modern Greek Literature and Literary Theory Dimitris Angelatos discusses his new book with the journalist Kiriaki Beioglou.
Co-organized by Gutenberg Publishing
1st Chania Book Festival 2022
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“Mitos: on the edge of the Labyrinth”
The “Chania Art Space” Art Gallery presents the exhibition “Mitos: on the edge of the Labyrinth” (curator: Yannis P. Markantonakis, secretarial support: Zoe Kollarou, scientific collaborator: Dimitris Angelatos) with the participation of 34 Cretan visual artists (Lefteris Vergerakis, Sofia Vlazaki, Yannis Dialinos, Vicky Kamenou, Irini Kana, Amalia Karkoulia, Zoe Kollarou, Stella Koukoulaki, Vangelis Lazaris, Yannis P. Markantonakis, Pantelis Markantonakis, Stavroula Mavromataki, Maria Michelogianni, Lambrini Boviatsou, Vasso Mylonogianni, Daphne Mylonogianni, Grigoris Niolis, Pagona Xenaki, Kostas Pagomenos, Onoufrios Papatzanakis, Aglaia Peraki, Sylvia Petsoura, Manolis Petrakis, Vasso Protopapadaki, Vangelis Roussos, Chrysoula Skepetzi, Lena Taki, Irini Tsiraki, Konstantinos Fisher, Antonis Frantzeskakis, Evi Fotopoulou, Eva Charalambidou, Anna Harchalaki, Dimitris Hourdakis), with unique art books, which highlight the way in which Cretan authors perceive the various boundaries -historical, mythological, sociological, psychological- through the prism that connects books and art over the centuries.
1st Chania Book Festival 2022