The Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy is organizing a conference entitled Visit by Fotis Kontoglou on Wednesday, 4 May 2022. Fotis Kontoglou (Aivali, Asia Minor, 1896 – Athens 1965), painter, hagiographer, and writer, was one of the most important and influential creators of the 20th century.

He sought and brought to light the tradition of byzantine iconography and imposed it on the iconography of churches. From Aivali, he first moved to Athens and Paris for studies, while after the Asia Minor Catastrophe he forcibly left his homeland forever with the multitude of refugees of the Asia Minor Greeks. How important were the years around the Asia Minor Catastrophe, and also immediately after the tragedy, in the in the formation of Fotis Kontoglou’s worldview, his literary consciousness, and his visual work?

The aim of the conference is to explore his work, and to re-approach the visual, artistic, and cultural conception of his work, during the 1920s. The conference inaugurates the rich program of scientific and cultural activities that the Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament has prepared in the context of the commemorative events for the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe.

The event will take place in the Senate Hall of the Hellenic Parliament, in compliance with the prescribed sanitary measures and with simultaneous webcasting.

Please register your attendance at

[email protected]

(https://foundation.parliament.gr/el/happenings/imerida-episkepsis-foti-kontogloy )

PROGAMME

10:30 Arrival – Reception

10:45EvanthisHadjivassiliou

Greeting

THE WRITER KONTOGLOU

1st CONFERENCE

PRESIDENT: Elizabeth Kotzia

11:00 Costas Karavidas

Aivali – Paris – Athos: FotisKontoglou and his routes

modernism in the 1920s

11:20 Kostas Spatharakis

The Modernism of Pedro Kazas

11:40LambrosVarelas

“I prefer to make enemies, because I speak the truth, rather than

friends, because I tell lies’: anekdotal writing

byFotisKontoglou in 1923

12:00 Discussion.

12:20 Break.

CHAIRMAN: TasosSakellaropoulos

12:30 Stavros Zoumboulakis

The Kontoglou of the Society of Friends (1925)

12:50 Joseph Vivilakis

The theatrical Kontoglou. From Hecuba to Moliere and

to Molière and Molière to Karagiozis

13:10 Discussion

13:30 Break

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Visit of FotisKontoglou

 

SENATE CHAMBER

4 May 2022

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE OF THE CONFERENCE

Stavros Zoumboulakis [chairman] – Joseph Vivilakis

Christos Margaritis – IriniHorati – Dimitris Pavlopoulos

THE PAINTER KONTOGLOU

3rd CONFERENCE

CHAIRMAN: ThodorisKoutsogiannis

15:00Eugenios D. Matthiopoulos

Ideological and aesthetic pursuits of FotisKontoglou

during the years 1923-1934

15:20 Dimitris Pavlopoulos

Illustrations by FotisKontoglou during the decade of

1920

15:40YannisBolis

FotisKontoglou’s secular painting in the 1920s

1920

 

4th CONFERENCE

CHAIRMAN: Christos Margaritis

16:00 Michalis Asfendagakis

Artistic explorations and works by Kontoglou during the period of his life

during the 1920s-1930s

16:20 Irini Horati

The Astrolabe: The first Greek artist’s book

PARTICIPANTS

Michael Asfendagakis, Dr. Christian and Byzantine Studies

Archaeology

LambrosVarelas, Associate Professor of Modern Greek

Philology, Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Aristotle

University of Thessaloniki

IosifVivilakis, Professor, Department of Theatrical Studies,

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Stavros Zoumboulakis, Writer

Kostas Karavidas, Dr. of Modern Greek Philology / member

Cretan philologist, Cretan philology professor, University of Ioannina, Greece

Elizabeth Kotzia, Literature Critic

ThodorisKoutsogiannis, Dr. History of Art

Art Collection of the Hellenic Parliament

Christos Margaritis, Researcher

Eugenios D. Matthiopoulos, Professor of Art History,

Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete

YiannisBolis, Art Historian / Head, Department of History, University of Athens, Greece

Department of Contemporary Sculpture MOMus – Alex Mylonas Museum

IriniOrati, Art Historian

Dimitris Pavlopoulos, Professor of Art History,

Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

TasosSakellaropoulos, Historian / Head of Historical

Historical Archives, Benaki Museum

Kostas Spatharakis, Translator

Evanthis Hadjivassiliou, Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

University of Athens, National and Civic University of Athens / General Secretary,

Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament for the Parliamentary

Parliament and Democracy