A wild incident starring Nikos Papadopoulos took place at the National Gallery, with the Niki MP breaking windows and display cases in a furious state, protesting an exhibition he described as blasphemous.
According to information, the MP is inside the National Gallery while another person is reportedly with him.
Police officers have rushed to the scene to record the damage caused.
The exhibition "The Allure of the Strange"
The exhibition for which the serious incident was caused is titled "The Allure of the Strange - In-Between Space".
As stated on the website of the National Gallery of Greece, "the impact of Goya's subversive view of the world has proven to be remarkably resistant to time. It makes its presence evident in the liberating explosion of surrealist visions and the poetic language of modernism, while continuing to offer us to this day a valuable reservoir of original visual interpretations of our relationship with the world and the beings that compose it. His engravings are distinguished by the verisimilitude of the monstrous, the persuasiveness of the absurd and the attraction of the hideous." Utilizing the theatricality of the carnival tradition and the Commedia dell'Arte, Goya composes a novel universe dominated by ambiguity and hybridity, the constant hovering between the familiar and the unfamiliar, a feeling that is due to the masterful juxtaposition of popular, everyday themes with incongruous, threatening, repulsive or even inexplicable forms that paradoxically attract us instead of repelling us, perhaps because we intuitively recognize in them something deeply our own.
Inspired by the series of Goya's engravings at the National Gallery and consistent with the intention of renewing the tools for reading historical collections with the program of activities of the Intermediate Space, we present, in parallel with the exhibition of 80 engravings from the Los Caprichos series, a thematic tribute to Greek art entitled The Allure of the Strange. The group exhibition includes works by ten artists who, from different starting points, embrace and depict the strange, the hybrid, and the grotesque.
The artists participating in the exhibition are Angelos Antonopoulos, Giannis Gaitis, Silia Daskopoulou, Marianna Ignataki, Dionysis Kavallieratos, Christoforos Katsadiotis, Tasos Mantzavinos, Malvina Panagiotidi, Angelos Papadimitriou, Philippos Tsitsopoulos.
The controversial works that provoked the wrath of Nikos Papadopoulos.
Source: protothema
