On Tuesday, February 8th takes place the vernissage of the exhibition by Nanos Valaoritis entitled "Goddesses, Women, and Monsters in Homer" at the Art Gallery "Astrolavos artlife"(Irodotou 11, Kolonaki, tel: 210 7221200, 4, fax: 210 7221304, opening hours: Wed-Sat. 10.00-15.00, Tues-Thurs-Fri. 10.00-15.00 & 17.30-20.30, closed on Monday, www.astrolavos.gr, email: gallery@astrolavos.gr ).

The new paintings by Nanos Valaoritis consist of colored drawings of the artist's well-known surrealist style, which will provide us a new dimension of  the goddesses, the women and the monster in Homer's world. The artist says about his work:

GODDESSES, WOMEN AND MONSTERS IN HOMER 
"This is a series of fantasies about how to present female goddesses in a modern perspective - with some humour and parody - in mortals (women) and the numerous mythological creatures that exist in Iliad and Odyssey, the two longest and most important Greek poems. These drawings are not accurate but rather paraphrase, in a modernist-corruptive way, such as the work entitled "Automobile Trojan Girl" employing time flashbacks, modernisations, other colour games and the trick of anachronism -as was the case in the Renaissance, when the faces of Homer's heroes where presented in contemporary costumes. In our tradition, Nikos Engonopoulos dared this, when he drew mythological heroes or heroines naked or costumed extravagantly. The tradition, as opposed to the neoclassical school of thought, leaves a large scope for different interpretations, always poetic, with love and respect to those masterpieces of ancient poems that were designed according to my reading, alphabetically, with the acrophonic system. Most notably, words beginning with the title of Rhapsody A, B, C, D, define the main themes of each Rhapsody, the same way as Zeus peering through the clouds follows the battles of Iliad and the adventures of Odysseus."

Duration: until Saturday, March 5th.