Thomas Moschopoulos

Medusa: Drafts and improvisations for rafts and shipwrecks

A painting and the historic event that inspired it provided a group of celebrated artists with a starting point for a collective work on History and time, History and art, art and time...
 
In 1816, the French frigate Medusa ran aground and 150 people of lower social standing were abandoned on a raft – only fifteen would survive. The ensuing scandal was enormous, and had political extensions. The painting of the tragic raft which Théodore Géricault showed three years later would acquire its own scandalous mythology, as the artist had used two of the survivors as models.
 
A collaborative creation by: Thomas Moschopoulos, Kornilios Selamois, Amalia Benet, Konstantinos Kypriotiakis, Elli Papageorgakopoulou, Lefteris Pavlopoulos, Elias Giannakakis, Tasos Angelopoulos, Anna Micheli, Anna Kalaidjidou, Anna Mascha, Kostas Berikopoulos, Dimitris Nasioulas, Argiris Xiafis, Maria Skoula, Thanos Tokakis. 
 
The performance is divided in 3 parts which the public can watch at no particular order. Each part will be played twice:
    •    Taksidi (The Journey): at 19:30 and 22:30
    •    Pathos (Passion): at 20:30 and 23:30
    •    Anthropini Sonata (Human Sonata): at 21:30 and 00:30
Therefore the spectators can start attending the performance at 19:30, 20:30, 21:30 or at 22.30.
 

Duration 3 hours approximately (including intermission)

Peiraios 260

  • 13/06/2011 at 19:30
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