The first section is related to the period of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the second takes the subject of Uprooting outside the narrow local limits of Asia Minor and Greece to more recent times, to the present day.
The importance of the painful anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe is particularly significant for the city of Thessaloniki, a city of refugees par excellence, which after 1922 and the compulsory exchange of populations, welcomed a huge number of refugees from Asia Minor, as was emphasized at the opening of the exhibition “Drying , 1922-2022.
Testimonies through Art”, at Telloglio Arts Foundation of AUTH.
The mayor of Thessaloniki, Konstantinos Zervas, in his greeting said that from the Asia Minor Disaster we can learn from the enormous integration of refugees into the then Greek state.
He added that after 1922 and the compulsory exchange of populations, Thessaloniki, destroyed by the Great Fire of 1917, welcomed this huge number of refugees from Asia Minor – about 120,000 souls.
He also underlined that it is shocking that the pattern of uprooting is the same throughout the world in every century, in every era, that is why human values ​​are universal and it is worth fighting for them, wherever you are, whenever even if they happen.
The rector of AUTH, Professor Nikolaos Papaioannou, emphasized, for his part, that the Asia Minor Catastrophe did not only mean the uprooting of Hellenism from its ancestral homes, it also marked the rebirth of Greece with the integration of populations distinguished for their intellectual cultivation, culture and their culture.
He added that in Thessaloniki, the refugees worked together with the locals in the Arts, Letters and Sciences.
In the exhibition of Telloglio “Xerizomoi, 1922-2022. Testimonies through Art”, which is under the auspices of the President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, the subject is approached in two sections through mainly visual evidence.
The first section is related to the period of the Asia Minor Catastrophe, the second takes the subject of Uprooting outside the narrow local limits of Asia Minor and Greece to more recent times, to the present day.
The first section hosts works by Spyros Papaloukas, Pericles Byzantium from the Asia Minor campaign, as well as photographic material from the Stratis Doukas Archive at AUTH.
In the second section of the exhibition, the uprooting goes beyond the temporal and geographical boundaries of Asia Minor and takes us to today.
Dimitris Messinis records with his lens the dramatic consequences of war conflicts and violent displacements in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sarajevo, Idomeni, Lesvos and Kos.
Christos Alaveras transcribes images of violence and uprooting in “Walking Between”, a monumental charcoal composition.
The exhibition will run until April 2, 2023.
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