Glances at the Art World (Photography), August 5 -11, 2021

On this page of our website, we will present the most interesting exhibitions in our opinion that take place in the specific week in the museums of the world. Exhibitions that all interested art lovers are required to know. Art is a huge mosaic spanning from prehistory to the present day. It accompanies man from the beginning of his existence because it is that creative expression that in the artwork captures the mental state, emotions, ideas, and visualization of the artist and will always be important in human life because of the magnetism it causes to human emotions by stimulating them.

ATHENS (GREECE-EU)

Exhibition: Paolo Pellegrin: As I was Dying

Civilians shift through the rubble looking for survivors following an Israeli air raid. Beirut, Lebanon, 2006
Photographer: Paolo Pellegrin Photo from the website: www.magnumphotos.com

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) presents the photo exhibition titled “As I was Dying” that is the first ever showing in Greece of the work of Paolo Pellegrin, Italian photographer, and member of the international Magnum agency. Based on his book of the same title, the exhibition reveals the photographer’s emotive gaze that transports viewers to the front lines of the human drama of contemporary history. Pellegrin captures moments of pain, struggle, and strength, in places far and wide, and with people as their common denominator. Japan, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Albania, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Ethiopia, Liberia, Sudan, Angola, Haiti, Kosovo, Cuba, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, the Vatican and France, diverse places and people parade before our eyes through Pellegrin’s black and white frames.

01 – August 31, 2021

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