(22 December, 2016) The exhibition “Gli allievi greci di Leonardo Cremonini” (Leonardo Cremonini’s Greek apprentices) is open to the public until February 11, 2017. The exhibition is a tribute to the Italian artist is well known in Greece for his numerous exhibitions. The Italian Cultural Institute of Athens (Patission, 47) hosts the exhibition and offers guided tours, the next of which is on Wednesday, 18 January at 18:00. Professor Eurydice Trichon-Milsani from the Paris Sorbonne University, who envisioned and curated this exhibition, will guide the visitors. Cremonini, who passed away in 2010 in Paris at the age of 85 where he had been living since 1951, was a promoter of the “Nuova Figurazione” movement and the only contemporary Italian artists appreciated by Francis Bacon. The exhibition also featured works by Alexis Veroukas, Stefanos Daskalakis, Eirini Iliopoulou, Kelly Mendrinou, Konstantinos Ntaoulas, Giorgos Rorris, Edoardo Sacallian, Anna Maria Tsakali, Maria Filopoulou, Evita Frantzola, Viky Chatzilakou. (PO/red)
