This is an exhibition full of vitality, with colors and shapes that evoke mental well-being, but also push the visitor to dive into the subversive universe of art. After all, a group of artists who joined the New Realism movement, whose works have been exhibited for several days now in the Goulandris Museum in Pagrati, set themselves such a goal from the very beginning: to see reality with their own eyes, to remake it. measure them. The opening of the group exhibition, which took place last Tuesday, attracted many people to Eratosthenus Street with the chairman of the board. Fleret Karadontis and CEO Kyriakos Koutsomallis greet the officials at the entrance.

This is the first international periodical exhibition organized by the museum to present to the Greek public in detail the explosive, revolutionary visual movement of the 60s, between Dadaism and Pop Art. The tribute is carried out in cooperation with international institutions, including the Center Pompidou, and will last until April 9, 2023. This synergy demonstrates the strength of the Goulandris Foundation, which, through its amazing permanent collection and contacts with other museums abroad, can be of great benefit. works in Athens.

The exhibition, curated by Man Ray International Association President Marion Meger and head of the Goulandris Foundation collections, Maria Coutsomali-Moro, presents more than 50 works by artists who have left their mark. Like Yves Klein, who died young, but managed to associate his name with the eternal blue, Niki de Saint Phalle, Armand, the Christos couple, Daniel Sperry and others. The link that connected all these artists was the famous art critic Pierre Restany. The movement developed at a time when artistic creativity ceased to be called modern and acquired the epithet “modern”.

The exhibition oozes gaiety but playfully winks at our time, where political correctness, invisible but omnipotent rules, the narcissism of individuality set their terms. On the contrary, it brings us back to the creators who dared to disprove the facts and create art from everything they found in front of them. The event was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Panagiotis Picrammenos and his wife, Swiss Ambassador to Athens Stefan Esterman, former Prime Minister Christos Geraris, Chairman of the Board of Directors. Bodosaki Foundation Athena Desipri, Scientific Director of the Benaki Museum Giorgos Magginis, Founders of the B&M Visual Arts and Music Foundation Theoharakis Vassilis and Marina Theoharakis, Director of the Gennadei Maria Georgopoulou Library, poet Vangelis Chronis, collectors Antonis Komninos, Antonis and Asia Hatzioannou and Sotiris Felios, foreign and Greek gallerists, artists and art critics.