Saturday 30 July 2011

Flowers




Another stunning dispaly at Antonello in Kolonaki





I have been photographing their window displays for years



and never tire of them.




Friday 29 July 2011

Athiri

A new discovery: Athiri, in Gazi.




Fantastic garden. Delicious food. Michelin recommended.



And the price? The weekday offer is 25 euros for 7 courses and one glass of wine!




Need I say more?





Wednesday 27 July 2011

Graffitti, banners and placards

It has taken me a while to get all of this together, but here is some of the graffitti to be found around Athens at the moment, as well as some of the posters and placards that are still around Syntagma Square.





The picture is of a Third World child eating, the caption at the bottom says I ate it and someone has scribbled on top: they are talking about profits and damage and we are talking about human lives.





We are taking control of our lives: self rule, compassion, change





A list of all the MPs who voted for the mid-term plan and in red: Traitors





The end of fear





Let's take to the streets to break the terror




Thieves - on the marble exterior of a bank




We are only targetting banks and Ministries   (the exterior of another bank)




Crisis is when you are being surrounded by poverty and the police





Class uprising, not patriotic indignation






Cog of the beast, exhume the riot police  (I love the poetry of this one)




Life, not survival




Colour television, black and white life





and here is one in English





and another one





and another one (the arrow is pointing at a window with bars)





together we have had our fill of tear gas





Difficult to translate, but I included this one because of the picture of Che




Long live utopia





Special department of the Greek police: Open school for coppers - you can enrol too. Special offer!!!
* Free enrolment + your first baton so that you can beat your mother up. tel. 090-100-100-100





PIGS are the bankers and not peoples





End of  the present situation , magic life....





Waged labour is terrorism





We should become 'their' crisis














Saturday 23 July 2011

The G.I. Katsigras Collection




G.I. Katsigras was a doctor and avid art collector. His art collection, which he bequeathed to the Greek State, is normally housed at the Municipal Museum in Larissa




but is currently exhibited at the Theocharakis Foundation on Vas. Sofias Avenue in Athens





But first, a look at the sculpture outside the museum which is by Vassilis Theocharakis, sculptor and owner of the museum





the bench by Alekos Fassianos



the second bench, also by Alekos Fassianos



the shop is to your right in the lobby




as is this glass sculpture by Kostas Varotsos, whose sculpture The Runner has transformed Vas. Sofias Avenue



Man Harvesting, Umvertos Argyros



Theofrastos Triantafyllides, Excursion to Galatsi




 Konstantinos Maleas, Laurio



 Konstantinos Maleas, Delfi



Nikolaos Lytras, Ymittos



George Gounaropoulos, Bridge on the Seine



 Theofrastos Triantaphyllides, Girl with turkeys




Yannis Psychopedis, Demonstration





Yannis Morales, Landscape





Epaminondas Thomopoulos, The Sheperdess





Theofrastos Triantafyllides, The Violinist




and now it is time to leave. Isn't this floor amazing?  Doesn't it look like reflections on water?







Tuesday 19 July 2011

Black and White at the Frissiras Museum




The Frissiras Museum in Plaka is an extraordinary place. It used to be a group of dwellings built around a central courtyard with a well in the middle.



In 2000 it was all converted into a museum by architect Alaxandros Tobazis. The courtyard is now an atrium with exhibition rooms all around.




The original balconies of the dwellings are still here



this is the second floor and you can walk all around it



the third floor,  and the glass roof that now covers the old courtyard




The current exhibition is 'black and white'




Paula Rego, the Jane Eyre series, The Guardians - Up in the Tree



Paula Rego, Jane Eyre, Poetry and Story - Crying



Nikos Kessanlis, Untitled




Nikos Kessanlis, Untitled




Xenofon Bitsikas, Diptych




Vasso Katraki, Untitled




David Hockney, Untitled




David Hockney, Untitled.


Isn't the blue light created by the glass roof, extraordinary? The pictures in the atrium have this blue hue, and as for Ken standing on the balcony, he looks absolutely luminous - such a contrast with the pictures in the main exhibition rooms!