From Selana to the Moon Hoax

From Selana to the Moon Hoax

Six artists from different backgrounds, but with a common axis the exploration of memory through allegorical writings, meet in an artistic coexistence, hosted in “16 Fokionos Negri”, an exhibition space that the collector Sotiris Felios has established as a reference point for contemporary art.

The artists participating in the exhibition:

Io Aggeli, Nikos Angelidis, Kalliopi Asargiotaki, Marilitsa Vlachaki, Alekos Levidis, Kostas Papanikolaou.

Central axis to the exhibition is the Moon, with all the connotations, metaphors, allegories, modern transcriptions, subjective magnifications and iconographic freedoms, that this thematic would entail. The exhibition, organised and curated by Elisabeth Sakarelli, coincides with the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing in July 1969, an event has strongly influenced contemporary thought production.

The distinguished professor of Physics at Texas A & M, Dimitris Nanopoulos, has written the foreword of the exhibition catalogue, under the title «From Klathmonos Square to the…Moon». Dimitris Nanopoulos, writes, among other things:

“The moon, which is the closest terrestrial body to us, being the only satellite of planet earth, maintains a magical charm on us, associating it continuously with all aspects of our lives: bad, such as, when we feel dizzy during a lunar eclipse (something that we now know to be a temporary “blockage” of our neural circuits), romantic: how many couples have fallen in love, for thousands of years now, while looking at the moon and dreaming of the future? How many tales and stories have been written, from the prophetic tale “From Earth to the Moon” by Jules Verne, to Isaak Newton, the “Patriarch of Physics”, who proved the theory of gravity, explaining the phenomenon of the tide as a result of the Moon’s gravitational pull on the Earth, the same force that holds it in orbit around the earth”.

The catalogue also includes short texts for each of the participating artists, by journalist and writer Nikos Vatopoulos.