The exhibition of Giorgos Kordi’s paintings entitled “Emotion” A reference to K.P. Cavafy opened at the Nomismatic Museum on 25 April.
The exhibition was co-organized by the Numismatic Museum and Aimilia Kougia. Art historian and visual artist Niovi Kritiko curated the exhibition and architect Edoxia Xanthopoulou did the museum design. The works on display belong to the “Collection of Evangelos and Katigos Angelakos” which they kindly provided.
As Niobe Kritiko notes, “George Kordis, approaching the historical poems of Constantine P. Cavafy, opens a substantial visual dialogue with the Alexandrian poet, not to illustrate, but to transmute the poetic body into an aesthetic site of experience, where history is experienced as an internal event and a meditation on fate, power and human dignity.
His figures, rooted in the Byzantine idiom, bear the hierarchy of the icon and embody Kabbaphatic heroes through the prism of the Greco-Byzantine period,while the dense symbolic imagery converses subterraneously with the poems, inviting the viewer into an experiential existential reading.
The theatrical staging of the images organizes funerary compositions that fix the gaze on the essential and activate the viewer as a participant, with the demos acting as ancient tragedy’s chorus, as a collective mind or as a silent witness to the hero. Through the vivisection of bodies, the visible recedes and the suggestive becomes heavy, while ”light” is not painted but emerges and signifies. The warm blacks, infused with the reds of the earth, become a peculiar painterly find that reveal the subject and activate a deeper mechanism of reading.”
The exhibition will run until 25/7/2026 and is open to the public during the Museum’s opening days and hours.
Operating Hours: Closed Tuesdays
From April 1, 2026 to October 31, 2026
Wednesday – Monday: 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
