“Shades of Love” – Exhibition of Photographs and Videos on C. P. Cavafy poems by Dimitris Yeros

Now, for the first time, Greek audience will have the opportunity to be introduced to Dimitris Yeros’ photographic work, in an exhibition entitled “Shades of Love”. Through his photographic lense, Dimitris Yeros has illustrated in his uniquely individual way poems of C. P. Cavafy.

In a lot of the exhibitions photographs we will have the chance to admire some of the most important personalities in the fields of Arts like the Nobel awarded Gabriel Garcia Marques and Naguib Mahfouz, the multi-translated author in Greece Gore Vidal, the writer and academic professor Michel Tournier, the most important alive Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, the awarded American authors Edmund White and Richard Howard, the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, the famous visual artists Jeff Koons, Arman, and Tom Wesselmann, the Director Clive Barker, the actor Olympia Doukakis, and many others, who all have been asked to pose for Dimitris Yeros since they all have a special relationship with C. P. Cavafys poetry.

The exhibition is going to be hosted from December 1st to 30th at Michael Cacoyannis Foundation. At the official opening of the exhibition, on Wednesday December 1st 2010, at 20:00, Michael Cacoyannis will address a speech.

A selection of 35 black & white large-scale photographs is going to be presented in the exhibition, among 70 photographs in total. On some of the photographs, videos are going to be projected with the portrayed person reading the poem that has posed for, creating this way the illusion that suddenly the photographs become alive.

All the portraits are included in the new book of photographs by Dimitris Yeros, entitled Shades of Love, which is out in Greece this November and in the rest of the world in January 2011, published by Insight Editions, California. The book includes foreword by Eduard Albee and introduction by John Wood and contains 67 photographs taken by Dimitris Yeros to illustrate an equal number of poems by C. P. Cavafy.

The book will be available at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation Shop during the exhibition as well as at the greek bookstores.

SEE MORE DETAILS ON THE EXHIBITION “Shades of Love” AT THE PROGRAM SECTOR