After about two months of unprecedented inclusion for all of us, The Blender Gallery team is taking a look back at the past weeks.

In the middle of quarantine, we did not stop creating and remaining optimistic. Music has a very important place in our day and especially during this period that gave us strength and kept us company in our activities. So we created a quarantine calendar. Our team members suggest you to listen to some songs as you discover our actions in the following links. All you have to
all you have to do is click on the song titles.

"Super easy! Tim Timebomb and Friends a new discovery encouraged me to start playing the guitar again. More specifically 11th Hour, Brown Eyed Girl and She Is Drunk All The Time"

"Funny and dystopian, the short stories of the podcast The Truth, accompanied my walks during the day. At night in the garden with wine I would smile with a song like this Youpi - Cornu (Kid Loco Remix). Reorganizing the house, during cooking and on dinner nights we often had Johnny Cash with us and in particular his album with covers American IV: The Man Comes Around. which song was: The Wayfering Stranger, in the Broken Circle Breakdown version ".

"Every morning is partly different but the same at the same time. I get up while the alarm clock is ringing like a robot. I make coffee. I wonder why I live. I turn on the radio and David Bowie is there singing that there is still hope in the world. As soon as I manage to wake up I open mails, talk to the rest of the team about current issues and later we all timidly decide that it 's time for some work out. Then I will definitely put Dua Lipa's "Physica" for warming up and then I will let youtube choose all the pop, dance songs ideal for hiit. Finally, my day will end either with jazz playlists from youtube without having any idea what I am listening to - I just like it with candles and wine - or with ‘Anna Vissi and old hits (on a well-known channel). Extra Tip "Son of a Preacher man" by Dusty Springfield - the song I sing softly almost every day during quarantine ".

"My daily morning walk started with an accompaniment from the daily podcasts of Deepak Chopra on how to better manage the pandemic within us".

"Every morning I did different things, but Leonard Cohen's Moving On always accompanied me. At noon I discovered my cooking skills by listening to Heartbeats from The Knife. A little later on the daily afternoon walk aside the Acropolis with my four-legged friend, the song that made us about 10km a day was "The Past is a Grotesque Animal by Of Montreal ".Finally, I would say that the song I most often listened to late at night on the balcony watching the tranquility of the center and the coming spring is "Manha De Carnaval"by Luiz Bonfa. "

Artists and gallery friends were asked to allow us to share creations that were "born" during the lockdown. Some did not manage to work in their studios, but they also created their own workspace in a corner of their home.

Artists who participated: Giannis Valyrakis, Emilia Gaki, Mikaella Theofanopoulou, Melina Koan, Alexandros Maganiotis, Apollonas Mathioudakis, George Makrakis, Eleni Maragaki-Xiromamou, Konstantinos Berdeklis, Elionas Ntou.

EXPLORE THE STORY BEHIND THE ARTWORK

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THE SHOW MUST GO ON in collaboration with AMKE Quarterly

Solidarity and collaboration are a part that we rely on a lot in the gallery, especially at a time when we all need to feel supported and helped. With the Quarter, we created the platform The Show Must Go On, to find solutions to cultural presentation, in view of the need that arises for alternative ways of communication and meeting places in general. More specifically, here are presented electronic art exhibitions in real space and time, offering the public the opportunity to remotely browse events - art exhibitions even in the most difficult conditions. The second action of the project, entitled In posters we love is already available for screening.

ΜYTHOS by Manolis Anastasakos

Scheduled events and exhibition openings may have been postponed to a future date, but art and culture are something everyone needs.