{"id":54272,"date":"2016-01-25T12:20:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2016\/01\/atene-mostre-fotografia-alla-scoperta-2\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:20:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:20:43","slug":"atene-mostre-fotografia-alla-scoperta-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/approfondimenti\/2016\/01\/atene-mostre-fotografia-alla-scoperta-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens \u2013 Photography show to discover Matera, the land of Sassi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cMatera, land of Sassi\u201d photography exhibition was inaugurated on Friday, Jan. 22 at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Athens and will run until Feb. 20. The show, which was organised by the IIC, displays the shots taken by Greek photographer Jenny Lykourezou, who was fascinated by the magnificent setting of the \u201cSassi\u201d of Matera, European culture capital for 2019. \u201cJenny Lykourezou\u2019s look adds on to that of the many photographers who have toured our city and fully grasped the spirit, the magic, the atmospheres that have been swathing these places for over 10,000 years, renewing themselves with every new look,\u201d explained Salvatore Adduce, the Mayor of Matera.\u00a0The Greek photographer wrote on her website: \u201cI started my photography course at the end of the \u201890s and, in my frequent travels, I focus my attention on man and everyday life, portraits and street photography; taking shots of buildings and museums are the sectors of my activity.\u201d The artist has taken numerous \u201cphotographic pilgrimages\u201d. She added: \u201cThere are many destinations that have fascinated or surprised me. In Italy, Calabria, Matera, Umbria.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cMatera, land of Sassi\u201d photography exhibition was inaugurated on Friday, Jan. 22 at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Athens and will run until Feb. 20. The show, which was organised by the IIC, displays the shots taken by Greek photographer Jenny Lykourezou, who was fascinated by the magnificent setting of the \u201cSassi\u201d of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-54272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}