The Allure of the Bizarre - A Survey of Greek Art
Few artists have cast as long a shadow over modernism as Francisco Goya, whose Los Caprichos series remains a masterwork of carnival grotesquerie where the Spanish master conjures a world perpetually balanced between the recognizable and the uncanny. The National Gallery presents eighty engravings from this seminal collection, paired with a contemporary response in The Allure of the Bizarre. This companion exhibition brings together ten Greek artists—including the surreal figurations of Dionysis Kavallieratos and Marianna Ignataki's phantasmagoric drawings—who carry forward Goya's fascination with the hybrid and grotesque. The juxtaposition offers a rare opportunity to trace the lineage of artistic subversion from eighteenth-century Spain to present-day Athens, demonstrating how the master's dark imaginings continue to resonate in our own uncertain times.
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Tickets: Free admission
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Time: Monday, Thursday, Friday, Weekend: 10 am – 6 pm, Wednesday: 12 – 8 pm
- National Gallery, 50 Vassileos Konstantinou, Athens, 116 34
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