CARITAS ATHENS AT STAVROS NIARCHOS CULTURAL CENTER
A visit and tour at Athens’ new “jewel”, the Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center at Neo Faliro, was organized by Caritas Athens for its members and friends, on Saturday 7 January.
Defying the bitter cold, 50 people from all the parishes of Athens were toured for more than 2 hours both at the indoor and the outdoor areas of the outstanding Center, created by the famous Italian architect Renzo Piano, which makes all Greeks proud of its construction!
The tour included browsing the building complex of innovative architecture, which shall shortly host the Greek National Library (EBE) and the Greek National Opera (ELS), the “Faros” [lighthouse] area (named after the roof from where the view to all Attica basin and the Saronic Gulf is stunning), as well as the Stavros Niarchos Park, where 450 trees and 280,000 shrubs and plants play the leading part, reflecting the Mediterranean landscape!
Finally, they had the chance to admire the exhibition “Giannis Moralis – Christos Kapralos: Friendship in Life and Art”, organized by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, in collaboration with the National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, in the framework of open events held at the Cultural Center; it includes fifty masterpieces by Giannis Moralis and eighteen bronze sculptures by Christos Kapralos. These are works of the two artists -two of the most important in the 20th century in our country- who met when studying at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and since then became friends at personal and professional level.
Defying the bitter cold, 50 people from all the parishes of Athens were toured for more than 2 hours both at the indoor and the outdoor areas of the outstanding Center, created by the famous Italian architect Renzo Piano, which makes all Greeks proud of its construction!
The tour included browsing the building complex of innovative architecture, which shall shortly host the Greek National Library (EBE) and the Greek National Opera (ELS), the “Faros” [lighthouse] area (named after the roof from where the view to all Attica basin and the Saronic Gulf is stunning), as well as the Stavros Niarchos Park, where 450 trees and 280,000 shrubs and plants play the leading part, reflecting the Mediterranean landscape!
Finally, they had the chance to admire the exhibition “Giannis Moralis – Christos Kapralos: Friendship in Life and Art”, organized by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, in collaboration with the National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum, in the framework of open events held at the Cultural Center; it includes fifty masterpieces by Giannis Moralis and eighteen bronze sculptures by Christos Kapralos. These are works of the two artists -two of the most important in the 20th century in our country- who met when studying at the School of Fine Arts in Athens and since then became friends at personal and professional level.
