Yannis Tsarouchis and his Contemporaries: Body, Building, and Landscape: Concluding Program
@ Wrightwood 659
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Opening Thursday, September 9th, from 11am - 12:30PM
Wrightwood 659, the Chicago art space devoted to presenting socially engaged art and architecture, proudly announces free virtual and in-person public programming complementing its critically-acclaimed exhibition, Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life, closing in four weeks on Saturday, July 31, 2021. The versatile series of programming consists of film screenings, a curators talk, a scholars panel and an exhibition-concluding expert talk. Tsarouchis (1910–1989) is widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek artists of the 20th century yet Dancing in Real Life is his first extensive U.S. exhibition. Featuring some 250 works that span the arc of the artist’s career, the exhibition includes his groundbreaking and erotic series of male portraits and nudes, which constituted a radical recoding of conventional gender roles represented in 1930s Modernism. Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life is curated by Androniki Gripari, Chair of the Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation in Athens, and Adam Szymczyk, former Artistic Director of Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (2013–2017).
Introduced by Michelangelo Sabatino, Professor of Architectural History in the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology, this program concluding the exhibition brings together experts who speculate on an imaginary stroll with historically-informed responses: If Tsarouchis took a leisurely walk up the meandering pathway leading to the Acropolis of Athens with a handful of his contemporaries in order to discuss the relationship between art, architecture, and landscape, who might those contemporaries be, and what might be their shared points of interest? Brief presentations will be given by architect and author Michael Lykoudis, architect and artist Andreas Angelidakis, and co-curator Adam Szymczyk, followed by a Q&A session led by Wrightwood 659 Program and Educational Coordinator, Ashley Janke. In order to better visualize the physical context that shaped Tsarouchis’s life and work, the program also feature a pre-filmed tour throughout his home and studio in the Maroussi neighborhood of Athens, including an interview with co-curator Androniki Gripari.
Free public programming providing context for Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life advance registration required at wrightwood659.org
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