"A Wonderful New World"

15/02/2007

SOCRATES. –It is therefore logical to consider that the creations of man are made, either in relation to his body – and this is the principle called benefit -, or in relation to his soul - and this we seek with the name beauty. On the other hand, however, one who constructs or creates, having to deal with the rest of the world and with the creative movements which forever seek to destroy or to overturn what he makes, is forced to recognise a third principle, that attempts to transmit his works, and expresses the resistance he seeks them to their destined fate, which is destruction. He thus seeks stability and duration.
PHAIDROS. –These truly are the great earmarks of the perfect work.
Paul Valery, Eupalinos: or The Architect 1

A Wonderful New World
The décor unbalanced
Drawn by a drunkard master
With a ridiculous nose
Standing on a single leg
It was there, as if built
With shimmering chalk
A city upright
As a crane
G. Skarimbas


Directly opposite the butchered structure by Takis Zenetos – the former FIX factory and now the promising building site for the National Museum of Contemporary Art – is the beginning of Irakleous Street. It heads steeply uphill and penetrates surprisingly into the interior of Neos Kosmos. This is the road where Nikos Moschos lives and works. Surrounded by a neighbourhood on the cusp of being regenerated,

At Nikos Moschos portrait of Antonis Benakis, Benakis as if by magic shows up in real flesh in the artist's studio. Behind the figure