It will last until November 27 at the Benaki Museum, with free entry
A taste of it Eleusis with the city itself as an Exhibit, is being presented from October 13th by the exhibition co-organized by the “2023 Elefsina Cultural Capital of Europe” with the Benaki Museum, in the Piraeus Street building.
The exhibition entitled “Mysterio_29 Elefsina-Omo Museum” heralds the official opening of the Cultural Capital on February 4, 2023 and is one of the major actions of the Mysteries, which make up the program of the Elefsina Cultural Capital. The city in which its artistic director Michael Marmarinos and his collaborators discover a place of pilgrimage, the Myth that inspires to this day and the children it gave birth to or welcomed, from Aeschylus to Kazantzidis.
The visitor is guided to “Raw Museum” from talking portraits of people who have inextricably connected their lives with Eleusis. A labyrinthine route begins with the Renaissance rooms of strange wonders (cabinets de curiosite) with the wooden suitcases in which objects from the daily life of the city, of particular emotional value and which have been collected with care for years by Eleusinian collectors, are presented.
An important addition to this section is some rare exhibits from the collections of the Benaki Museum, presented for the first time. At a twist in the route, lithographs of foreign travelers, photographic impressions of Elefsina by famous foreign and Greek photographers from the end of the 19th century until today are revealed. Snapshots from past stories of the residents through their personal photo collections, they connect the local with the general, the small human history with the big History. The last part of the exhibition is dedicated to the community of Elefsina through local sports, the local press, the competitions and the claims for better environmental living conditions.
An anthology of quotes written about Eleusis by great thinkers, poets and writers of the world’s intellectuals, conversing with exhibits and memories, highlighting modern and older mysteries of this unique city, could not be missing from the “Omo Museum”.
A 3,000-year-old city in the Thriasian Field, sacred in antiquity, with cultural wealth that was covered by the industrialization of the 19th century, with a history of a strong labor movement from the refugee of ’22 that intersected with the workers of internal migration, in a place full, even, from the traces of their presence. In the 1980s, the working town of Eleusis was marked by deindustrialization with the subsequent effects on the environment, unemployment, but also by the establishment of a long-lived successful cultural municipal institution, Aeschyleia, founded in 1975.
“This is an unpretentious city from the start! It has no consciousness of the value or mixed values ​​it carries upon itself, it carries them Raw – so it exposes them to the visitor without any awareness that it is actually exposed. The whole thing is, therefore, an unpretentious RUDE EXHIBITION. We, here and there, add a humble circumlocution to the “exhibits”, to help the perception pass them from the first level of life – their ontology – to the next, to the perception of their inescapable exhibition status and evaluation”, says Michael Marmarinos, who conceived the exhibition. It is edited by the architect-museologist Erato Koutsoudakis.
The president of the Elefsina Cultural Capital Society, Despina Geroulanou, together with the artistic director, invite the public, Athenians and Elefsinians, to discover the exhibition that will last until November 27 at the Benaki Museum. The entrance is free.
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