“Posters 71” exhibition by Dimitris Sapranidis
Category: Visual Arts > Solo exhibition
Artist: | Dimitris Sapranidis |
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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
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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.