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The Alpha Bank Art Collection is participating in the commemorative exhibition “Uprootings, 1922-2022. Witnessing through Art” with 3 works of art by Spyros Papaloukas. The exhibition is organised by the Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, under the auspices of the President of the Hellenic Republic, to mark the 100-anniversary since the Asia Minor Catastrophe.
The Alpha Bank Art Collection is participating in the commemorative exhibition with 3 works of art by the Spyros Papaloukas (1892-1957):
The commemorative exhibition “Uprootings, 1922-2022. Witnessing through Art” is hosted at the Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, to mark the 100-anniversary since the Asia Minor Catastrophe.
The exhibition is held under the auspices of H.E. the President of the Hellenic Republic Ms Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
This painful anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe is especially important for the city of Thessaloniki. After 1922, and following the mandatory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey, Thessaloniki, itself devastated by the great fire of 1917, received 120,000 refugees from Asia Minor.
The refugees were gradually integrated into the city’s social and economic life, becoming key to its rebirth and evolution into a contemporary metropolis.
Drawing primarily on visual art creations, the uprooting is split into 2 sections: