![]() The move wasn’t without controversy just two years before, Greece had defaulted on its debt to the I.M.F. Indeed, Rodeo, the night’s gathering spot and one of the most respected and progressive contemporary galleries in the greater Athens area, is among a handful of creative forces that are transforming the Agios Dionysios district of Piraeus, not far from the ferry docks, into one of the capital’s most exciting cultural destinations.Īthens’s current reputation as an up-and-coming art hub was sealed in 2017, when the arts organization Documenta chose the city to serve, along with Kassel, Germany, as a host of its much-anticipated quinquennial exhibition. But despite the derelict-looking buildings and the distance from Syntagma Square, the capital’s stately center, a 25-minute taxi ride away, the scene - like one from Martin Scorsese’s 1985 film, “After Hours,” which depicts the gritty but heady SoHo, Manhattan, of its time - exuded a zeitgeist-y glamour. An unassuming thoroughfare lined with low-slung ship-repair and metal workshops in Piraeus, the industrial port city on Athens’s southeast side, it is not a place where galleries have historically set up shop. On an exceptionally hot July evening, a crowd was mingling and drinking wine at an art opening on Polidefkous Street. ![]()
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