Ilias Dekoulakos (Solo exhibition at Hilton Athens Art Gallery)
Category: Visual Arts > Solo exhibition
| Artist: | Ilias Dekoulakos |
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| Year: | 1973 |
| Genre: | Painting |
| Host: | Hilton Athens Art Gallery |
| Place: | Athens |
Censorship incidents
| March 1973 | Cancellation of Ilias Dekoulakos’s solo exhibition
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Description
The opening of Ilias Dekoulakos’s solo exhibition at the Hilton Athens Art Gallery was scheduled to take place in early March 1973. The day before, the visit of a group of students supervised by a woman teacher, who created a scene shouting that some of the nudes on display offended the pupils’ sense of decency and should be taken down, came to the attention of ‘gallery employees and police officers who happened to be present’; the painter was pressured by the gallery to withdraw the “offensive” paintings as well as some others which could be seen as including anti-dictatorship hints. Dekoulakos refused and decided to cancel the exhibition, which has held an important place among the censored works of the dictatorship ever since.
Sources – Bibliography
- Ta Nea, 3/3/1973.
