“What does a work sound like? What sound does it make? We name a work to describe it. To tell the viewer in words what it is that he sees.

But how does what someone sees sound? Colors are vibration, frequency… So is sound.

The idea was for a person who expresses himself through sound, a musician to see my works and describe in notes and not in words what he sees. To compose the sound that the painting or sculpture that touched his soul makes and instead of naming the work, give the viewer a chance to hear it!

In this exhibition, next to each work there will be a QR code that the viewer will be able to scan with his/her mobile phone to travel through two arts: painting and music, musically and visually.”

Irini Gogua

For the first time, the project – exhibition “The sound of works” by the artist Irene Gogua together with renowned composers. The exhibition is based on the synaesthesia of colours and sound. Musical creators from Greece and beyond are enthusiastically participating in this project.

(*The names of the composers follow.)

Thanasis Vassilopoulos, Konstantinos Thalassochoris, Themis Karamouratidis, Vassilis Katsaros, Stamatis Kraounakis, Yannis Miliokas, Adrianos Nonis, Giannis Nonis, Giorgis Xylouris Kantris, Spyros Tsaras, Giorgos Hadjinasios, Kostas Hatzis, Aoris, Iakovos Gogua, Ingie, George Kachinsky, George Kallis, Roni Iron, 1000mods

Composers enthralled by the idea gave their sound to the work that “spoke” to them without a second thought in a subversive matching of the two arts.

An original project that will be hosted at the “Melina” Cultural Centre of City of Athens (Irakleidon 66 & Thessalonikis, Thisio) from 14 to 24 February 2025 with the support of the Culture, Sports and Youth Organization of the Municipality of Athens.

The exhibition is free of charge for the public, as the aim of the participants is for as many people as possible to experience this original effect!

Orchestra Director George Pagiatis says of the exhibition, “The benefit that visitors derive from the exhibition is that the tangible, basically, of visual creation meets the absolutely ideal of musical creation in a “whole” of harmony and mutual integration, expressed in the most vivid way. The ideal given, the coexistence of the two arts that follow parallel paths, in terms of the starting point – conception, inspiration – the course and the result, which is the expression of the artist’s personal emotion interwoven with the emotion that the work evokes in its recipient.”.