{"id":2667,"date":"2025-06-13T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T06:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/exhibition\/the-road-by-andreas-embiricos\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T07:40:13","slug":"the-road-by-andreas-embiricos","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/ghadjimichalis.gr\/en\/exhibition\/the-road-by-andreas-embiricos\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Road” by Andreas Embirikos"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I first listened to a recording of \u201cDromos\u201d in the early 1970s, and read it for the first time in 1974, when it was published in \u201cTram\u201d. The act of reading the text caused me to relate to it in a different way. Seeing all those locations and names in print, those words, simply as words, were images. A little later I decided to create a work, making 39 small paintings exclusively of the names and locations mentioned in the poem. I made 2 or 3 small portraits, but I didn\u2019t pursue it; my life and my work were dominated by other priorities at the time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In 2006, while working on Vassos Kapantais\u2019 exhibition for the Benaki Museum, I decided, almost thirty years later, to pick up where I had left off. I found my notes from 1976 (?). I decided to enhance the original catalogue and make 64 images. The framework and the concept remained the same; I simply added certain faces without names, i.e. gondolier, unknown poet, etc, and filled in some gaps from the first catalogue. The work consists of 64 images, 12 x 12 x 1.2 cm, acrylic on wood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

In closing this note, there is something I need to say: I owe a lot \u2013 so much \u2013 to Andreas Embiricos.<\/p>

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George Hadjimichalis<\/p>

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The Road by Andreas Embiricos<\/i>, 2006-7, acrylic on wood, 12 x 768 cm., private collection<\/p>

Unknown poet \/ Anonymous saint \/ Long-distance lorry \/ Citroen \/ Cadillac \/ Vespa \/ Wagon \/ Athens<\/i><\/p>

Moscow \/ Yaroslav \/ London \/ Peking \/ Santa Fe de Bogota \/ Guadalajara \/ Sierra Madre Oriental \/ The Cordilleras<\/i><\/p>

Delphoi \/ Dodoni \/ Salona \/ The Bridge of Alamana \/ The grey Seine \/ raped woman \/ knife, pistol, flintlock \/ Odysseas Androutsos<\/i><\/p>

The Inn at Gravia \/ Kiose Mehmet \/ Omer Vryonis \/ Pikermi \/ Daou Penteli \/ Edward Herbert \/ Vyner \/ De Boyl<\/i><\/p>

Lloyd \/ Skala Oropou \/ Dilessi \/ Chryso \/ Ram \/ Reaper \/ Pine \/ Thyme<\/i><\/p>

Slaughtering \/ Arvanitakis Takos \/ Arvanitakis Christos \/ Yeroyiannis \/ Black Katarrachias \/ Grand Canyon \/ Makrotantalon \/ Akroceraunians<\/i><\/p>

Andes \/ The banks of the Guadalaquivir \/ Cordoba \/ The river Amour \/ Zambezi \/ Finish lakes \/ Tierra del Fuego \/ Estramadura<\/i><\/p>

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