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RICHARD LONG | ATHENS SLATE LINE

NEON + Ministry of Culture and Sports | Shrine of Dionysos Eleuthereus, South Slope of the Acropolis of Athens

21/07/2020 - 30/09/2020

Richard Long | Athens Slate Line | Photography © Fanis Kafantaris | Courtesy NEON and the artist
Richard Long Photography © Steve Jackson
Richard Long | Athens Slate Line | Photography © Fanis Kafantaris | Courtesy NEON and the artist
Richard Long | Athens Slate Line | Photography © Fanis Kafantaris | Courtesy NEON and the artist
Richard Long | Athens Slate Line | Photography © Fanis Kafantaris | Courtesy NEON and the artist

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RICHARD LONG | ATHENS SLATE LINE

21/07/2020 - 30/09/2020

Shrine of Dionysos Eleuthereus, South Slope of the Acropolis

Please be informed that in accordance with the health authorities’ new measures in the Attiki region prioritising health and safety, the free guided tours of the Richard Long exhibition Athens Slate Line are cancelled to avoid crowding. The exhibition remains on view at the Shrine of Dionysos Elefthereus until 30 September 2020.

OPENING HOURS

Daily 8:00 – 19:00 | The events are offered free of charge by the Ministry of Culture and Sports. The only price of admission is the ticket of the archaeological site.

Please note, all visitors are required to wear protective masks during their visit, and practice social distancing whilst on site.

Admission at the Archaeological Site is free on European Heritage Days | September 26 & 27, 2020


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Activating archaeological sites with contemporary art, NEON is proud to present Richard Long’s Athens Slate Line, positioned leading up to the shrine of Dionysos Eleuthereus on the South Slope of the Acropolis of Athens. The project is realised in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Sports as part of the initiative “All of Greece, One Culture”. Curated by NEON’s Director Elina Kountouri, the installation is shown to the public for the first time since its inception in 1984. It will also be Long’s first work to be shown in public out of lockdown.

Richard Long has for many decades been associated with the emergence of Land Art in Britain during the 1960s. Central to his practice is the action of walking. He has created sculpture and Land Art using lines all over the world, including the Sahara desert, Australia and Ireland.

This particular work, Athens Slate Line (1984), consists of individual pieces of slate assembled to form a line. Its linear shape acts as a path, reminiscent of the meditative nature of walking. The act of walking combines physical endurance with the principles of order, action and idea, proposing a new way of viewing the wider area of the site. A line has been at the core of Long’s practice. It first appeared in his seminal work A Line Made by Walking (1967), as a student at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London. He created this artwork by continually treading the same path in a grass field in Wiltshire.

Shrine of Dionysos Eleuthereus
South Slope of the Acropolis of Athens
Dionysiou Areopagitou
Athens


Shrine of Dionysos Eleuthereos, South Slope of the Acropolis of Athens

Dionysiou Areopagitou 19, Athina 117 42, Greece

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