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    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life


    First U.S. Exhibition of Great Greek 20th-Century Artist
    Opens May 7 at Chicago’s Wrightwood 659

    WHAT Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life


    WHERE Wrightwood 659, 659 W. Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614
    WHEN Fridays and Saturdays, May 7 – July 31, 2021

    (CHICAGO, IL – April 2, 2021) – Wrightwood 659 is pleased to host the first U.S. exhibition devoted
    to the work of Yannis Tsarouchis (1910–1989), widely regarded as one of the greatest Greek painters of
    the 20th century. On view May 7–July 31, 2021, the exhibition will feature some 200 works, including
    paintings and works on paper from public and private collections in Greece and internationally.
    Together, these span the entire arc of the artist’s career, showing how he absorbed and transformed
    influences including Ancient Greek and Early Christian art; Byzantine mosaics, frescoes, and icon
    painting; Greek vernacular traditions: costume, ornament and shadow theater Karaghiozis; and also the
    new languages of modern art: Fauvism, Cubism, and Surrealism. During the military junta rule in Greece
    between 1967 and 1974, Tsarouchis worked in self-exile in Paris; in 1981 he established the Yannis
    Tsarouchis Foundation in Athens, which is to this day dedicated to the preservation and advancement of
    his work.

    The exhibition is organized around several recurring subjects and structural devices present in
    Tsarouchis’s art: the exploration and staging of the Other Self in portraiture; the invention of new

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    allegories; theater as a machine of image production; dance as an embodiment of realness; landscape as
    introspection; and difference and repetition.

    Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life is curated by Androniki Gripari, Chair of the Yannis Tsarouchis
    Foundation in Athens, and Adam Szymczyk, former Artistic Director of Documenta 14 in Athens and
    Kassel (2013–2017). The exhibition is made possible by the Alphawood Foundation Chicago.

    Tsarouchis
    While today Tsarouchis remains relatively little-known outside of Greece, he is unanimously recognized
    in his native country as one of its most important painters of the twentieth century. Born in 1910 in the
    Greek port city of Piraeus and educated at the School of Fine Arts in Athens, he began painting at an
    early age and earned his living as a set and costume designer for the theater. In 1935 Tsarouchis went to
    Paris for the first time, where he encountered the work of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst and
    other artists of the Avant-garde. In 1938, at the age of 28, he had his first solo exhibition in Athens. After
    serving in the Greek army on the Albanian front in the Second World War, he returned to painting and
    working in the theater, gaining an international reputation. During Greece’s military dictatorship (1967–
    1974), Tsarouchis went into exile in Paris to then return to Athens, where he lived until his death in
    1989.

    Hours of Operation
    Fridays and Saturdays, May 7–July 31, 2021
    Fridays 12–7:30pm
    Saturdays 10am–5:30pm

    Tickets
    Tickets for the exhibition are $15 and available online only, beginning April 19 at
    www.tickets.wrightwood659.org/events. Please note, admission is by advance ticket only and walk-ups
    are not permitted.

    COVID-19 Response
    For the presentation of Yannis Tsarouchis: Dancing in Real Life, Wrightwood 659 will adopt the
    universally recommended practices of required face masks and appropriate social distancing. Among
    other precautions, we have installed a state-of-the-art air filtration system and will continue to regularly
    sanitize public spaces. Admissions will be limited to ensure visitor and staff safety.

    Publication
    The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated, 400-page publication that will be available for
    purchase at Wrightwood 659.

    About Wrightwood 659


    Established in 2018, Wrightwood 659 is a private, non-collecting institution devoted to socially engaged

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    art and architecture. Located at 659 W. Wrightwood Avenue, in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood,
    the intimate space officially opened in late 2018 and presents two public exhibitions annually.
    Wrightwood 659 was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando, who transformed a
    1920s building with his signature concrete forms and poetic treatment of natural light.

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    National Media Contact


    Ennis O’Brien
    Betsy Ennis: betsy@ennisobrien.com | +1 917.783.6553
    Lucy O’Brien: lucy@ennisobrien.com | +1 973.879.4037

    Chicago Media Contact


    The Silverman Group
    Beth Silverman: beth@silvermangroupchicago.com | +1 312.560.4783

    For additional information: https://wrightwood659.org


    Image captions Left to Right:
    Yannis Tsarouchis. Angels: The Winds Caecias and Zephyrus, 1966. Private collection
    Yannis Tsarouchis. Military Policeman Arresting the Spirit. 1965. Watercolour and pencil on paper.© Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation
    Yannis Tsarouchis. Nude zeimbekikodancer. 1974. Gauche on paper. © Yannis Tsarouchis Foundation

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