Athens, Greece –  The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens is pleased to present ” George Hadjimichalis . The Painter A.K – A Novel”, on view through February 5th 2012, The exhibition features new work by George Hadjimichalis specially commissioned by the museum and Bombay Sapphire Gin. George Hadjimichalis’ new project, is an installation that consists of 265 small and medium-sized paintings, 27 photographs, a structure and a video, which comprise the retrospective exhibition of an imaginary painter. Adopting the practice of a novelist, Hadjimichalis envisions a fictional person and creates his artwork, telling a story. It is a work open to multiple readings and includes a plethora of references and correlations. In this work, Hadjimichalis connects the personal to the collective, the experiential to fantasy, fiction to reality, identity to otherness, and the self to the Other.