Andrea Valleri: Simbiosi - Neopaleo, Messolonghi

The third exhibition of the Neopaleo project, a travelling exhibition by the Venetian artist Andrea Valleri, will take place from 17 to 27 August at Palazzo Chrisogelou, the Region's cultural institution in Messsolonghi, a city sacred to Greece, as its citizens gave their lives for independence from the Ottomans during the 1821 Revolution. It is entitled ΣΥΜΒΙΟΣΗ ('symbiosis') as a testament both to the similar lagoon environment of Venice and Messolonghi, and to the common history that has always linked Venice and Greece in the defence of Christian- and especially national-identity (for example, the first President of the Republic of the Heptanesus, 1800, and of freed Greece, 1821, was a Greek-Venetian, Giovanni Antonio Capidistria).