SYMBOLS II MEMORY

SYMBOLS II: Memory

International Exhibition of Architecture and Contemporary Art
May 20 - June 15, 2023

KAM, Giali Mosque, Sabbionara, Agios Roccos & Katre Street Hammam

Under the general title "SYMBOLS II: Memory" the architecture and contemporary art exhibitions "SYMBOLS" and "Athens, 200 years 200 buildings" were presented in the city of Chania, in a collaboration between the cultural institution CityLab and the K.E.P.E. .DI.X and the Mediterranean Architecture Center (KAM) and the support of the Region of Crete and the University of Western Attica.
The exhibition lasted from May 20 to June 15, 2023 and was developed simultaneously in 5 historical landmarks of the Old Town of Chania: the KAM, the Giali Mosque, the Sabbionara Gate, the chapel of Agios Roccos and the Hammam on Katre Street. The experiential experience of browsing the whole of the scattered exhibition, the potential labyrinthine routes that connect the distinct spaces that hosted it, recall the archetypal form of the mythical labyrinth, where an abstract version of it was also the logo of the exhibition.

“SYMBOLS II: Memory” worked in multiple ways. A first important goal was to bridge, in the sense of the symbol, works from different sources of creation, so that architecture, sculpture, painting and music coexist semantically, reconstruct the characteristics of their Renaissance identity and artists stop defending the limits of the arts. A second goal was to give young creators the opportunity and power to converse in front of the general public with their accomplished teachers. Finally, the "SYMBOLS" exhibition itself was and continues to be a springboard for the creation of artistic works, since it not only presented selected works based on the theme, but also those created for the very theme of the symbol as well as for participating in the dialectic formed by the report. All of the above were summarized in order to trouble the creators and recipients, to declare that art is not a process, because it undertakes to say what cannot be said otherwise, and in conclusion to raise again, with different wordings, the same eternal question: "What is art?", which we once thought Leo Tolstoy had answered forever...

CREATORS (alphabetical order):

Jason Austin, Armand Biglari, Mario Botta, Peter Eisenman, Alberto Ferlenga, Kalos &
Klio, Thilo Krense, Lars Krückeberg, Aleksandr Mergold, Laurie Olin, Wolfram Putz,
Heike Schuppelius, Yvonne Smink, Thomas Willemeit, Dimitrios Agathopoulos, Stavros Alifragkis, Aristides Antonas, Dimitris Antonakakis, Susana Antonakaki (1935-2020), Angelos Antonopoulos, Theodora Vasiliadou, Ariadni Vozani, Chrysa Voudouri, Ioulis Georgosopoulou, Dimitris Giannisis , Socrates Giannoudis, Vassilis Ganiatsas, Dimitris Gourdoukis, Stavros Gyftopoulos,
Aristotelis Dimitrakopoulos, Despina Zavrakas, Katerina Zafeiropoulou, Dimitris Isaias, Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, Panita Karamanea, Nefeli Ekati Katsaros, Yannis Kizis, Kostantis Kizis, Spyros Kizis, Maria Kokkinou (1958 -
2022), Manolis Korres, Zisis Kotionis, Takis Koumbis, Antonia Kounalaki, Andreas Kourkoulas, Nefeli Kyrkitsou, Ilias Konstantopoulos, A. M. Kotsiopoulos, Andreas Lazaris, Michalis Manousakis, Aphrodite Maragou, Tina Marinaki, Yannis Markantonakis, Phryni Mouzakitou, Tasos B iris, Lamprini Boviatsou , Konstantinos Bouras, Ilias Bourgiotis, Kyriakos Mortarakos, Konstantinos Moraitis, Costas Daflos, Ioannis Economou, Panagiotis Pangalos, Konstantinos Papadimitrakopoulos, Spyros Papadopoulos (1966-2023), Tassis Papaioannou, George A. Panetsos, Phoebus Pangyri akis, Apostolos Panos, Nikos Patsavos, Tsambikos Petras, Spyridoula Politi, Costas Poulopoulos, Haris Pressas, George Rymenidis, Rena Sakellaridou, Konstantinos Serraos, Andreas Sitorego, Sofia Sofianou, Stavros Stavridis, Dimitra Stavropoulou, Eva Stefani, Vangelis Stylianidis, Ermioni Syrogiannopoulou, Panagiotis Tanimanidis, Eleni Tatla, Anastasios Tellios , Konstantinos Teligadis, George Tzirtzilakis, Nikos Tranos, George Triantafillou, Katerina Tryfonidou, Venetia Tsakalidou, Sofia Tsiraki, Vassilis Tsonakas, Kyriaki Tsoukalas, Dimitris A. Fatouros (1928-2020), Anastasia Ferentinou, Pantelis Chandris, Konstantinos Hadzais so, Dimitra Hatziandreou, Jimmy Chitas.

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