Sir Peter Blake: The designer of the Beatles album covers in Metsovo

In Metsovo, a destination all year round, with amazing nature, unique gastronomy, exquisite cheeses and wines, from October 12 travelers will have the opportunity to experience the new exhibition of the Art Gallery with the works of Sir Peter Blake.

Thirty years after its foundation, the art institution brings the work of Sir Peter Blake into dialogue with a new creation by Stavros Kotsireas, from October 12, 2024 to January 12, 2025.

This is the first exhibition of works by the so-called "godfather" of British Pop Art in Greece, which, together with the participatory installation of the Greek artist, invites the public to contribute to the creation of a new narrative for our time, curated by art historians Annita Apostolaki and Anastasia Manioudaki.

Creative Encounters 2024 in Metsovo

Creative Encounters 2024, at the Gallery in Metsovo, includes works by Peter Blake that emphasize the medium that made his art known around the world, collage.

Works from his most recent series Joseph Cornell's Holiday (2017-2019) dedicated to surrealist assemblage pioneer Joseph Cornell (1903–1972) are featured, along with some of his best-known album covers, most notably Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) by the Beatles.

The exhibition is also a rare opportunity for the public to see up close one of Blake's earliest sculptures, Man Meeting a Tiger on a Bridge (1960), cast in bronze.

Next to the emblematic figure of international post-war art, at Creative Encounters 2024, Stavros Kotsireas presents for the first time the multimedia installation Metamorphoses (2017-2024), which is the culmination of an artistic journey of forty years.

On a monastic-style table, fourteen personalities who left their mark on world history, from Socrates and Confucius to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, make their "presence" through objects that the audience is asked to decipher in order to lead to his own interpretation of the relationships between them and participate in the transcendental dialogue that takes place. Having conceived the idea for the project in the wake of the economic, social and political global crisis of the previous decade, Kotsirea's aim is to create, with the participation of the public, a think tank to find a new vision for the new era that is dawning.