The mural created by the Larissa graphic artist-illustrator, Yiannis Petrou, in the center of Thessaloniki, is just the beginning of a series of activities planned by the Ennio Morricone Music Friends Cultural Association of Greece
After the mural dedicated to Ennio Morricone at 3 Viktoros Ugo Street, in Ano Ladadika, with a thematic illustration from the film “Cinema, Paradise”, the Ennio Morricone Greek Music Friends Cultural Association is looking for… walls, for five more creations , while also planning the creation of an annual festival to be held in Thessaloniki in honor of the maestro.
The mural, created by the Larissa graphic designer-illustrator, Yannis Petrouin the center of Thessaloniki, at the beginning of the summer, is only the beginning of a series of actions planned by the Cultural Association of Friends of Ennio Morricone Music of Greece, which is dedicated exclusively to the promotion of the work of the world-class Italian composer.
The President of the Association, Konstantinos Papakostasand the visual team of the association “Ennio Morricone in plain sight”, are in constant communication with institutions and individuals in Thessaloniki, in order to create five more murals in various parts of the city, with the artists Apset and Dimitris Taxis, already having their drafts.
Mr. Papakostas is also determined to create, in collaboration with the Morricone family, an annual festival in Thessaloniki, with rare films for which the conductor has written music, which will be framed by other actions for which they will collaborate and the groups of the Association, Ennio sketching (comics) and Ennio formes (visual arts).
Konstantinos Papakostas, a breeder by profession, sees his involvement with the Association as a game, “in the childish, innocent sense”, he tells the Athens/Macedonian News Agency and is quick to clarify that all actions are non-profit.
This game started because he had the luck, as he says, to grow up in an urban family in Larissa, with cinephile parents, so he had seen from an early age most of the films set to music by Ennio Morricone.
He heard the maestro live for the first time in 2004 in Rome. “I couldn’t believe what I had heard. Then I listened to him whenever and wherever I could.”
After a Morricone concert in Milan, Mr. Papakostas decided to create the Association, the only one in the world dedicated to the composer, which has 5,500 members from all over Greece, but also from Italy.
In addition to countless musical, cinematographic and visual events – primarily at the Association’s headquarters, Larissa, but also throughout Greece – the Association also publishes the book “Inseguendo quel suono”, by the biographer of the conductor Alessandro De Rosa, translated and edited Annas Noussi.
The Morricone family in Athens, Thessaloniki and Larissa
All of Mr. Papakosta’s movements are always made in consultation with the maestro’s son, Marco Morricone. “Markus will love it,” she repeats every time she talks about a new creation or new event she’s planning.
Although the Association was founded in 2011, several years before the great composer passed away (2020), Konstantinos Papakostas had never met him in person.
But he is always in close contact and cooperation with his family, whom he met last year at the Venice Film Festival at the screening of “Ennio: The Maestro”, the documentary created by Giuseppe Tornatore.
Tornatore’s workshop, had also been in Larissa, for shots of the murals dedicated to the maestro that the Association has done.
This year, at the end of September, Marco Morricone and the maestro’s biographer will be in Greece, specifically in Athens, Thessaloniki and Larissa, where the documentary and the Greek edition of the book entitled ” Looking for that sound.”
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