ACG Art Gallery of The American College of Greece, on the occasion of celebrating the 110th Anniversary of Friendship between Greece and Japan aiming at its perpetuation, launches the contemporary art exhibition entitled "The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn", curated by Megakles Rogakos, for the Greek-born Japanese writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904). Born in Lefkada Island of Greece to Irish surgeon-major Charles Hearn and Rosa Antoniou Kassimati from Kythera Island, studying in Durham of England, working in the United States, and choosing to make Matsue his home and Japan his country, Lafcadio Hearn (1850- 1904) became the epitome of a personality bridging complimentary cultures. Lafcadio is the supreme embodiment of the achievement of open mind. His example teaches the fact there is no higher calling than tolerating `otherness`, and no richer way of life than one spent pursuing the creative truth, no greater responsibility than holding a mirror up to society, no greater challenge or mystery than marrying our dream life to our waking life. By opening his mind Lafcadio opened his heart to humanity, and led to peace within his self and ultimately the world.

"The Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn" exhibition features artworks from 47 artists, inspired by Lafcadio Hearn`s life and work, from the ACG Art collection that cover all art forms (painting, photography, sculpture etc.) and types (from naturalism to conceptual art). The participating international artists are the following: Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Christos Antonaropoulos, Murshida Arzu Alpana, Zacharias Arvanitis, Konstantinos Bobos, Ismini Bonatsou, Eileen Botsford, Giannis Diamandis, Lena Dimova, Costas Evangelatos, Sophia Fotiadou, Christos Garoufalis, Tina Cambani, Nicole Kapari, Koshin Kawatsou, Harris Kondosphyris, Vassiliki Koskiniotou, Nikos Kryonidis, Panayiotis Lambrinidis, Vassilis Liaouris, Panagiotis Linardakis, Alexandros Maganiotis, Megakles, Yiannis Melanitis, Alkistis Michaelidou, Eva Mitala, Nicholas Moore, Spyros Moschoutis, Evangelos Moustakas, Jan Mulder, Barbara Nahmad, Masaaki Noda, Kostas Paniaras, Lea Roussopoulou, Seiho, Dimitris Sevastakis, Vassilis Solidakis, Magda Tammam, Yorgos Taxiarchopoulos, Christos Theofilis, Sotiris Therianos, Sofia Touboura, Nikos Tsarouhas, Filippos Tsitsopoulos, Praxitelis Tzanoulinos, Yumiko Yoneda, Apostolis Zolotakis.