“Posters 71” exhibition by Dimitris Sapranidis

Category: Visual Arts > Solo exhibition

Artist:Dimitris Sapranidis
Year:1971
Genre:Painting
Host:Greek-European Youth Association
Place:Athens

Censorship incidents

1971
Police shuts down the solo exhibition “Posters 71” of Dimitris Sapranidis
Reason:Politics | Public order
Type of censorship:Institutional censorship | Repressive censorship

Description

Dimitris Sapranidis’s exhibition “Posters 71” in the hall of the Greek-European Youth Association in 1971, in which he presented forty anti-dictatorship posters, was forcibly shut down by the police after three days, and he had to speak to the police authorities in defense of his works, two of which — Chronology and Bus Only — later circulated illegally as posters.

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Sources – Bibliography

  • To Vima, 29/10/1971.
  • Kathimerini, 29/9/1974.

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