Italian artist finds his Greece in song

In a quiescent townhouse beside the train tracks successful Thiseio, the Bernier/Eliades assemblage is hosting the third solo accumulation successful Athens of Paolo Colombo, the 76-year-old Italian artist, curator and poet. Titled ‘Music and Mosaics,’ the amusement runs from September 25 to November 8. The accumulation weaves together watercolors inspired by rebetiko musicians Vassilis Tsitsanis and Yiannis Papaioannou, sound installations of their songs, and mosaics recalling Byzantine fragments. For Colombo, who studied lit successful Rome and aboriginal directed institutions from Geneva to Istanbul, creation is inseparable from representation and music. Though helium neither sings nor plays, helium stresses, ‘Music is my large love.’ Rebetiko, discovered connected his archetypal trip to Greece, became cardinal to his work.