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 Revolution I love you

The exhibition - Revolution I love you
Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art
Warehouse Â1, Port of Thessaloniki
5 May (official opening at 21:00) - 14 June 2008

«When parliament is transformed into bourgeois theatre, then bourgeois theatre becomes parliament» - this was the slogan on a banner hung outside the National Theatre of France, the Odeon. It was May 1968… The whole heart of France was beating to the pulse of revolution. The streets were festooned with posters and banners with slogans like «Power to the imagination», «Make your dreams reality, make reality a dream». The arts played a leading role in the events of that time, and in subsequent interpretations of those events; now, forty years on, the time has come for the arts to explore the traces left in the present day by the movement of May 1968. The Thessaloniki Centre of Contemporary Art has borrowed one of the slogans of the time and used it for the title of its exhibition, «Revolution I love you», to run from 5 May to 14 June 2008, at Warehouse Â1 in the Port of Thessaloniki. The exhibition is one of a number of events being organized under the title «Days of ‘68», in association with the Thessaloniki Film Festival and the magazine Istorein, and will feature a special film season (5-15 May, at the Olympion), and two conferences (4 May in Thessaloniki and 5-6-7 May in Athens).