An incredible incident occurred at the National Gallery, when a member of the “Victory” stormed into an amok state, broke the glass protector and grabbed images, shouting that they were “offending religion”.

This is MP Nikos Papadopoulos, who was arrested and taken to GADA.

Nikos Papadopoulos was accompanied by his wife Evantia Kalaitzakis who claimed that he had entered the gallery alone and as soon as he saw the works he felt offended.

“If you saw your mother skeletal, how would you feel? For us the Virgin Mary is a mother, ”she said.

The exhibits that caused the wrath of the Member are included in the National Gallery’s periodical exhibition “The Said of the Weird – Intermediate Space”.

Mr. Papadopoulos also posted on Facebook:

In the press release of the National Gallery The exhibition, inter alia, states: “With a driving lever, the series of Goya’s engraving works in the National Gallery and consistent in the intention to renew the tools of reading the historical collections with the intermediate actions program, we present to the 80 -course Los Caprich. Weird.

»The group report are included works of ten artists From different origins are embraced and depicted the weird, the hybrid, and the grotesque. Obstructed the Paratise, the Foreign and the Apostle, the artists redefine the boundaries of humanin practice canceling the traditional classifications that strictly define species.

“They deal with the relationship of the formal, the anthropomorphic with the animal, nature and technological culture, to interpret mental states and social processes of exclusion and marginalization, but also to suggest, sometimes with humor, sometimes with caustic irony and at times. The exhibition of the weirdness includes artistic creations implemented by a variety of means (painting, sculpture, engraving, drawing, animation, performance), utilizing the stock of the EPMA collections and is accompanied by a bilingual list (Greek – English). “

Question in Parliament

Meanwhile, the same MP had submitted a question to Parliament to the Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni, dated January 25, on “Withdrawal from a National Report.
Gallery, painting that offends our Orthodox faith. “

In the question, the MP said: “At the National Gallery – Alexandrou Soutsos Museum (EPMAS), the inauguration of an exhibition entitled” The Senior of the Weird “took place on Wednesday 22.01.2025 and curated by Mrs Syragos. This is a periodic exhibition that will run from 22.1.2025 to 30.09.2025. In this exhibition, therefore, is also selected and presented, among other things, a work by Greek artist Christoforos Katsadiotis who is manifestly affecting the Orthodox Christian faith, directly offending the sacred faces of the Virgin Mary and Christ, who are depicted!

Our Church, in the darkness of the many and varied sorrows that exist in our world, promotes the Virgin Mary, our Mother, the Mother of Christ, and the Mother of all the people, who among her many and infinite names, is also called the hope of the desperate, that is, the hope of those who have no hope. That is, the harder and the more gloomy and darker, our Lady is the light that shines and gives us strength and courage. And I really think there is no man in this world, a Christian Orthodox who does not invoke our Lady daily.

Even atheist people, in front of the difficulties, say “My Lady”. Consequently, Jesus Christ is the Son of God, God, the second person of the Holy Trinity, who came into the world, became human, suffered and crucified for our own salvation, for our resurrection. Really, with what logic and by what criteria does the curator of the report
Mr. Syragio Tsiara chose the work of artist Christopher Katsadiotis entitled “Image the Virgin Mary with Christ Hug (Attilo)”, silver paper, oxygen – seam? The curator of the exhibition had to know that Christopher Katsadiotis had made other ‘dark’ (as described by some artistic circle) works. Such a project is this
in which Saint George is presented as “The Butcher of Avenue”, Oxyraphia – Color, 35.8 x 24.5 cm, 2018.

The responsible Minister is asked:

1. Given that the prevailing religion in our homeland is the Orthodox East what actions do you intend to take to remove this work directly from the above report, which deeply affects and inflicts the faith and religious beliefs of the overwhelming majority of the Greeks?

2. Will the curator of the report on her provocative (and not obviously accidental) act be checked, in order to mark the need for full respect for religious beliefs and the religious consciousness and freedom of the citizens, in accordance with the clear constitutional urgency?

Protest by Metropolitan Corfu

Reference to the report characterized it “nasty content” was made yesterday by Metropolitan Corfu, who said: “It was met on the internet that this time, with the tolerance of the Ministry of Culture, hosted by the National Gallery, an exhibition of the Icons, in the National Gallery of the Icons. Christopher, Our Lady.

And not only that, but there is also a painting that, according to those who believe in this kind of culture, the bishop and the sacred clergy are loaded in a trash can. Is this a perception that prevails in our state and the Ministry of Culture? Is this the image of God, which is abusing, removing, denouncing not only in the faces of the saints but also of people? Did this be offered by the Holy Clergy to our homeland? The Orthodox faith who kept this people who accepted multiplexes?

My soul and heart sad. That is why I am addressing you, the excessive lords, who represent the state and please convey this message and the sadness of the heart of the humble bishop. We will not accept this ridicule, because our homeland lived and was founded in this unmistakable and vast faith. One cannot distinguish the Greek genuine from the Orthodox Christian. Let them take this into account all those who wish to demolish the image of God and the image of man that God has given us. “