Project Description

May 20th 2021 — June 18th 2021

Tue-Sat: 12:00 – 20:00

Canone Doppio

Location

Normanou 3, Monastiraki

Curators

Francesco Piazza

 «The Project Gallery» and the Hellenic Community of Sicily “Trinacria” presents the group exhibition entitled: “Canone Doppio” curated by Francesco Piazza. With the kind support of the Italian Educational Institute of Athens, Tempo Forte and under the auspices of the Municipality of Athens.

As the curator of the exhibition notes:
Double Canon for String Quartet is a composition by Igor Fedorovič Stravinsky written in 1959, in memory of the painter Raoul Dufy.
In this short composition, of only 20 bars, that lasts just over a minute, Stravinsky chooses a series of twelve notes with a symmetrical character that give rise to canons played with two violins that repeat the series of twelve sounds twice.
The second canon is performed by a viola and a cello that are added to the violins, creating a complex contrapuntal plot.

The narrative structure of “Canone Doppio” investigates the theme of the other, as a possible product of one’s own choices and their combination through 12 topics, such as the twelve sounds of Stravinsky’s dodecaphonic system, which express a foray into various aspects of human nature, and which lead to different interpretations and representations.

The 12 subjects draw inspiration from literature to philosophy, from music to mythology, from psychoanalysis to chronicle, assigned to twelve couples of artists. They compose in “Double Canon” a series of 12 diptychs in which each artist is the counterpoint of the other and each musical score is addressed from two different and complementary points of view.

The artists draw inspiration from the following topics referred to Sex, Labyrinth, War, Mirror, Mask, Twins, Doppelganger (Alter Ego), Eden, Dream, Shadow, Echo, Journey.

Exhibition opening: Thursday 20th of May 2021, 16:00 – 21:00
Exhibition duration: 20 – 5 – 2021 to 18 – 6 – 2021
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 12:00 – 20:00 (Closed on Sunday & Monday)

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Participating artists:

Evita Andújar, Avlamis Gerasimos, Valentina Biasetti, Ismini Bonatsou, Gianluca Capozzi, Pierluca Cetera, Giuseppe Ciracì, Demetrio Di Grado, Alice Faloretti, Voula Ferentinou, Eleni Ginosati, Vittorio Iavazzo, Michalis Karaiskos, Helen Kyrkilis, Evdokia Kyrkou, Alexandros Maganiotis, Patrizia Novello, Dionisios Pappas, Konstantinos Patsios, Vania Elettra Tam, Irini Tataki, Samantha Torrisi, Nikos Varytimiadis, Massimiliano Usai.

 

Exhibition – catalogue coordination:

Vassilis Karampatsas

 

All necessary health measures apply due to COVID-19.
Use of face masks inside the gallery is mandatory.

The health measures apply to all floors of the building,
as well as to the all-day-bar Couleur Locale
(where one can sit and enjoy the Acropolis view before and after the exhibition!)

 

Info:

The Project Gallery, Normanou 3 (in the passage), 1st floor, Monastiraki.