Controversial artwork set for National Gallery return after vandalism by far-right MP

[InTime News]

Artwork that had been removed from Athens’ National Gallery successful mid-March, with the consent of the artist, Christophoros Katsadiotis, aft being vandalized respective days earlier by an ultra-conservative MP who claimed the pieces were violative to Orthodox Christianity, will instrumentality to nationalist view connected May 5, the assemblage has announced.  

The instrumentality of the artwork, which was removed to defuse tension, will beryllium followed, a time later, by an world normal organized by the National Gallery. Titled “The Freedom of Art: Facts and challenges,” the lawsuit will take spot astatine the Onassis Stegi amphitheater. 

Four pieces of creation by Katsadiotis were attacked connected March 10 by far-right Niki enactment MP Nikolaos Papadopoulos, who stormed into the National Gallery and, with the assistance of different person, forcibly tore the pieces from the wall and threw them to the floor, causing important damage.

The ultra-conservative MP had slammed the pieces successful a ranting Facebook station a time earlier.