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17th London Greek Film Festival 2023: Screenings and Awards Ceremony
The London Greek Film Festival presents contemporary films and screenplays from Greek and international film directors, producers, writers and artists.For sale: limited edition Monochords prints
Monochords is a suite of linocuts by London-based Italian filmmaker and visual artist Chiara Ambrosio, in response to Yannis Ritsos’ collection of one-line poems by the same title.
Limited edition prints will be available for sale throughout the exhibition. Please enquire at the Hellenic Centre or call 020 7487 5060.
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Chiara Ambrosio: Monochords
Monochords is a suite of linocuts by London-based Italian filmmaker and visual artist Chiara Ambrosio, in response to Yannis Ritsos’ collection of one-line poems by the same title.
Yannis Ritsos, a Greek poet, communist, and active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II, composed the 336 Monochords in August of 1979, in the space of one month, following the end of one of his many political exiles on the island of Samos. Each line is a poignant and essential observation of an instant in time, at once ephemeral and resonant; the resulting collection of poems reads as a personal archive of time past, present and future, offering, in the poet’s own words, keys to his own poetic sensibility.
Chiara Ambrosio had been carrying a copy of the Monochords with her for over a decade; a compass, a torch and indeed a key, offering inspiration, direction and companionship as she developed her own poetic vision. One day in 2020, as the pandemic began to spiral out of control, she turned to the book once more and felt compelled to make images in response to the monochords: not illustrations, nor translations, more of an experiment in entering the space opened up by the poem, and seeing what would resonate and emerge from there; how that exploration could be rendered in line and shape-like going fishing at night in the sea of Ritsos’ words, a daily ritual, that accompanied the artist along a strange year of exile from life.
Viewing will be open by appointment only during Hellenic Centre opening hours. Please call 020 7487 5060 or email info@helleniccentre.org to book a slot.
The following print editions by Chiara Ambrosio will be available for sale throughout the exhibition. Please enquire at the Hellenic Centre or call 020 7487 5060.
Edition 1- Monochord N. 16 “ I saw you and remembered poems”, hand printed linocut on fine art paper, 7.5 x 7.5 (image size), 14.85 x 21cm (paper size), edition of 36, £60
Edition 3- Monochord N.75 “The poem has sense, you say. Does it have a body?”, hand printed linocut on fine art paper, 7.5 x 7.5 (image size), 14.85 x 21cm (paper size), edition of 36, £60
Edition 4- Monochord N.242 “Whenever you arrive it seems you’re running away. But perhaps I’m the one leaving.”, hand printed linocut on fine art paper, 7.5 x 7.5 (image size), 14.85 x 21cm (paper size), edition of 36, £60
Edition 5- Monochord N. 330 “On the blackboard with a piece of chalk I drew the moon’s golden eyebrow.”, hand printed linocut on fine art paper, 7.5 x 7.5 (image size), 14.85 x 21cm (paper size), edition of 36, £60
Edition 6- Monochord N. 336 “So you’ll know- these monochords are my keys. Take them.”, hand printed linocut on fine art paper, 7.5 x 7.5 (image size), 14.85 x 21cm (paper size), edition of 36, £60
Chiara Ambrosio is a London-based filmmaker and visual artist, working with moving image, photography, text, sound and printed matter to explore the ways in which we remember, articulate and preserve personal and collective histories and a sense of place. Her work pays witness to and portrays that which struggles on the fringes of dominant narratives – communities, landscapes, stories, objects, perceptions, sensibilities – excluded and marginalised for a variety of different reasons but always fundamental to our understanding of what makes us human. Her work has been presented extensively both nationally and internationally at venues including the Whitechapel Gallery, Anthology Film Archives and La Cinémathèque Française.
Free entry | Please email info@helleniccentre.org or call 020 7487 5060
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(POSTPONED) Maths Workshops for Children and Teenagers
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12 Jun 2023 Mon
Yannis Ritsos: New English Translations and Visualisations
Yannis Ritsos: new English translations and visualisations, including a tribute to Edmund Keeley. David Harsent, A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yannis Ritsos, intro. John Kittmer (Hexham: Bloodaxe 2023) and Yannis Ritsos, Monochords, trans. Paul Merchant; linocut illustrations by Chiara Ambrosio (London: Prototype 2023).
Readings, illustrations and panel discussion.
Event organised by the Anglo-Hellenic League.
Booking information: info@anglohellenicleague.org.
King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS -
13 Jun 2023 Tue
Katie Lentakis Award Ceremony
In Conversation with Prof. Kevin Featherstone.
Event organised by the Anglo-Hellenic League.
Booking information: info@anglohellenicleague.org.
King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS -
15 Jun 2023 Thu
Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality exhibition introduction
Curator of Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality Dr Andrew Shapland provides an introduction to the first major exhibition in the UK about Knossos. Hear about early travellers searching for the mythical Labyrinth, the importance of the Sir Arthur Evans’ excavations and recent discoveries that include evidence of human sacrifice.
Free entry | RSVP via Eventbrite or 020 7563 9835
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