23 July, 2021
EPIKYKLOS supports art and culture
At EPIKYKLOS we believe that the beauty of a city is not only in its buildings and public spaces, but also in its people, their coming together, the arts, culture, as well as the promotion and development of culture.
Actions that promote the arts and culture are a priority for our company and we support them in every way. As a creative partner for the exhibition SYMBOLS & ICONIC RUINS that is presented at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens, we become supporters in every such effort and encourage each person individually, through their own work, to become more actively engaged with such actions, which have a more beautiful world as their aim.
The exhibition SYMBOLS & ICONIC RUINS at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) is a large exhibition, even for international standards, with 137 artists, architects and art theorists from Greece and abroad presenting 110 works in the museum’s Temporary Exhibitions Hall (-1) from 27 May to 20 August 2021.
The exhibition investigates the ways we perceive and approach powerful cultural symbols, gathering under a single conceptual framework works of contemporary art and architecture by important artists and architects from Greece and abroad. This is an attempt to compose different versions of the idea of the symbol, through selected affinities and common characteristics, regardless of whether the sources and the production processes of the symbols are drastically different. In addition to individual works, which offer thoughtful comments on the relationship between artistic and architectural creation to symbols, the main body of the exhibition presents three distinct yet interconnected groups: the Acropolis of Athens, the post-war architectural production in Central Europe, and references to the Berlin Wall. As the curator Dr Panayotis Pangalos mentioned: “The aim is to structure a peculiar dialogue between different ruins with current symbolic value.”
Many of the works were created specially for the exhibition and are presented for the first time, while on display are also architectural and art documentaries, as well as rare archival material. At the same time, a digital version of the exhibition was created in interactive 3D visualisation, both in English and Greek, in order for it to be more accessible to the public.
EPIKYKLOS, being a proud creative partner of the exhibition, organised a very special evening at the museum, which honoured with their presence important figures from the fields of academia, politics, architecture and business. Our guests enjoyed a private tour of the exhibition by the person who curated and conceived it, Dr Panayotis Pangalos, followed by a dinner on the museum’s rooftop terrace, with a menu of Greek tastes by catering company Nice n Easy Group.
